Essays from Wayne Koestenbaum’s MY 1980’s AND OTHER ESSAYS were excerpted in on the New Yorker blog and on The Nervous Breakdown. Wayne Koestenbaum was also interviewed in Daily Beast Book Bag, discussing his five favorite books from the ‘80s; in the Oxford University Press, discussing the book’s inspiration; and on The Nervous Breakdown, in its regular “self-interview” feature. Farrar, Straus & Giroux published the book on August 13, 2013.

Choire Sicha’s VERY RECENT HISTORY: AN ENTIRELY FACTUAL ACCOUNT OF A YEAR (c. AD 2009) IN A LARGE CITY has been reviewed by the New Yorker blog and NPR Books. The book has also been featured in Time Magazine, New York Magazine, GQ and Interview. The New Yorker blog calls Sicha “one of the most esteemed documentarians of the Internet’s eternal present” and says that “What Sicha has written is exultant in a way no mere clever premise can be.”

Wayne Koestenbaum’s MY 1980S & OTHER ESSAYS was featured on the New Yorker’s Book Blog under “Books To Watch Out For: August,” saying, “These essays combine personal reflections and cultural criticism in Koestenbaum’s lavish, fragmented style.”

The trailer for THIS IS HOW YOU DIE, edited by David Malki !, Ryan North and Matthew Bennardo, is now running on Boing Boing, in addition to a 90-page free PDF preview. Wired is running an exclusive story from the book. The book was also listed in New York Magazine’s “Guide to Summer Reading” and reviewed by the AV Club, which gave it an A grade.

Andrew Sean Greer will be reading from his newly published novel THE IMPOSSIBLE LIVES OF GRETA WELLS in these New York venues:

LEXICON received a positive review from the Barnes & Noble Review, which raves that “LEXICON takes our contemporary world and skews it laterally, opening up a rabbit hole compounded of shock, enlightenment and ontological quicksand, down which his characters and readers plunge, willy nilly, equally frightened and exhilarated, begging breathlessly for an end to the ride before hoping to go again.”

SISTER MOTHER HUSBAND DOG: Etc. by Delia Ephron was named one of Publishers Weekly picks for Top 10 Memoirs for Fall declaring that the book is “…filled with empathy and humor about her life and the people in it.” Blue Rider Press will publish the book September 17, 2013.

Terry Brooks will be going on tour for the publication of WITCH WRAITH, which Del Rey will be publishing on July 16, 2013, and stopping at the following places:

Derek B. Miller’s NORWEGIAN BY NIGHT has moved to the #11 spot on the German bestseller list, up from #15 last week. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt released the book on May 21, 2013.

Lucy Corin’s forthcoming collection ONE HUNDRED APOCALYPSES AND OTHER APOCALYPSES is being excerpted by McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, in installments of one apocalypse per week “celebrating the end of the world.” McSweeney’s will publish the book August 13, 2013.