EVERYTHING NOW by Rosecrans Baldwin received a glowing review from Booklist. They write:
“Throughout this essay collection, [Baldwin] explores the history and make-up of this urban sprawl through interviews with fascinating and bizarre locals and draws on such LA luminaries as Joan Didion, Octavia Butler, and Jonathan Gold. Each essay circles around a theme, which he pursues on many tangents…Full of surprising facts and anecdotes, this is a compelling, thoroughly researched, and lovingly crafted chronicle of how Los Angeles came to be.” MCD will publish the book on June 15, 2021.

Jonathan Parks-Ramage’s YES, DADDY earned a starred review from Booklist. They praise: “Antigay crusaders and literary elite both prey on desperate [protagonist] Jonah Keller in this horror-filled tale of exploitation and its aftermath…surrounded by empathetic narration in a story that offers all extremes, from verisimilitude to despair and from a lust for revenge to a longing for home. Fear settles over the reader as they wait for the next blow, making Jonah's story akin to that of the victim in Roxane Gay’s AN UNTAMED STATE (2014).” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will publish the book on May 18, 2021.

Hermione Hoby’s sophomore novel, VIRTUE, received a stellar endorsement from STAKES IS HIGH author Mychal Denzel Smith: “With VIRTUE, Hermione Hoby marries her hallmark lyrical genius with propulsive storytelling, resulting in an engaging and beautiful novel. VIRTUE resists easy moralizing, yet delivers an elbow-sharp, incisive dissection of the seductive nature of the privileges afforded to those on the favored side of inequality. Where it is heady it is also heartfelt, where it is critical it is also compassionate, and it is all of these things presented in some the most resplendent language committed to the page. The clarity and beauty of VIRTUE'S writing is matched by its author's multi-layered thinking and ability to capture the tension of the not-too distant past.” Riverhead Books will publish the novel on July 20, 2021.

Sunjeev Sahota’s CHINA ROOM received a glowing endorsement from MEMORIAL author Bryan Washington. He praises Sahota’s writing as “the stuff of miracles,” adding: “Boisterous, emotional, and heartrending, CHINA ROOM juggles questions of love, debt, and what it means to build a home alongside the history that carries us. Sahota navigates the worlds between where we believe we belong, where we end up, and the choices we make to close the distance along the way, with humanity, precision, and grace - CHINA ROOM is a propulsive dream, intricately wrought, and Sahota is a maestro." Viking will publish the novel on July 13, 2021.

Poet, novelist, and essayist Renee Gladman has endorsed Lucy Corin's forthcoming THE SWANK HOTEL. She writes: “Corin brilliantly fashions a world where grief, familial love, ambulation, and detection are entwined as four dimensions of the same problem: time. Being in time. Accounting for one’s time. Accounting for time spent with others. Here we are offered a place where people who have passed through can go on existing and people who are present can be shattered so thoroughly that they end up everywhere—where the dead go, where the living wander, where the future holds. This is a devastating, enthralling, and mysteriously hopeful adventure.” Graywolf Press will publish the book on October 5, 2021.

EVERYTHING NOW by Rosecrans Baldwin received a glowing review from Publishers Weekly. They write: “Novelist and essayist Baldwin delivers a witty and imaginative survey of contemporary L.A…This multifaceted, openhearted account reveals L.A. as a ‘shifting mosaic of human potential’ unlike any other place in the world.” MCD will publish the book on June 15, 2021.

A glowing Booklist review for Vince Granata’s EVERYTHING IS FINE hails it as “a monument to the work of remembering…In candid, smoothly unspooling prose, Granata reconstructs life and memory from grief, writing a moving testament to the therapy of art, the power of record, and his immutable love for his family.” Atria Books will publish the memoir on April 27, 2021.

Georgia Clark’s upcoming novel, IT HAD TO BE YOU, received a starred review from Booklist. They rave: “Full of immersive details, rich characters, and great banter, Clark's latest…perfectly balances sweetness with an edge of realism that will draw readers in.” Emily Bestler Books will publish the book on May 4, 2021.

BBC History praises THE IRISH DIASPORA by Turtle Bunbury, writing: “This fascinating assortment of case histories, spread across 1,400 years and six continents, is an impressive feat of research. All of the chapters are based on a solid body of up-to-date historical writing. The summaries of often-complex historical background to the lives explored are models of lucid compression. The short biographies themselves are lively yet judicious, packed with vivid detail but willing, where necessary, to question or dismiss colourful legend. And the reader will come away with a new sense of the many ways in which Ireland has interacted with the world beyond its shores, and of some of the extraordinary careers that have resulted.” Thames & Hudson will publish the book on April 6, 2021.

Gabriela Garcia’s debut novel OF WOMEN AND SALT has received two new glowing reviews. The San Francisco Chronicle calls Garcia’s work “a deeply American story about the pieces of self people leave behind on their journeys to become 'Americans,’” and the Seattle Times deems it “a captivating and harrowing debut that will undoubtedly put Garcia on the literary map for years to come. It is a prime example of why diverse voices and stories need to be told, to shatter the one-sided narrative typically seen about immigrants, the Latino communities and beyond." The Los Angeles Times also profiled Garcia for its Books section, and the novel hit more must-read lists from USA Today, HipLatina, Romper, BuzzFeed, and Success Magazine. Flatiron Books will publish the novel on March 30, 2021.