News - Book Reviews
News - Book Reviews
Anne Fadiman’s memoir was named one of the 20 Indie Next Great Reads on the Indie Next List Great Read for November 2017. The reviewer says “This is a book about family and how the differences between us can be one of the many things that actually draw us together.” Farrar Straus & Giroux will publish the book on November 7, 2017.
Lauren Groff reviewed FRESH COMPLAINT in the New York Times Book Review. She says: “Eugenides has always been a sharp and exacting writer, and nearly every one of the stories in this collection is teachable, a model of its own kind of Swiss-clock craftsmanship.”
Kirkus has reviewed DON’T COSPLAY WITH MY HEART, saying, “this authentically geeky and feminist romance nails the con scene.” Scholastic will publish the book January 2, 2018.
Cory Doctorow has reviewed this picture book on boingboing, calling it “a delight of a science book, a marvel of a picture book.” Greenwillow published the book on October 3, 2017.
Samantha Hunt’s THE DARK DARK was reviewed in The New Yorker’s “Briefly Noted” section this week, where they write of it: “Each of the stories in this collection harbors a surreal twist… Hunt lingers over such moments just long enough to suggest that the phantasmagorical can be found in any situation, no matter how banal.” Farrar, Straus & Giroux will publish the book on July 18, 2017.
Joy Press writes for the Los Angeles Times that celebrated novelist Samantha Hunt’s debut book of short stories THE DARK DARK is “a daring collection in which Hunt gives her imagination free reign, allowing her characters to careen off the rails in their search for something more in the darkness.”Farrar, Straus & Giroux published the book on July 18, 2017...
The New Yorker has reviewed FLY ME, saying of the debut novel, “Riley conjures a Technicolor vision of seventies California and casts Suzy’s ambition as a feminist quest for self-determination. Her exploits build to a climax that suggests the book’s title is not so much an invitation as a challenge.” Little, Brown published the book June 6, 2017.
The sequel to THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE, THE GIRL IN THE TOWER has received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist. Publishers Weekly raved “Vasya is a remarkable heroine, strong of will and sharp of mind, and her stark realization that her desire for freedom may have consequences for those she loves adds a layer to this sensual, beautifully written, and emotionally stirring fantasy. Fairy tales don’t get better than this...”
The latest novel by Andrew Sean Greer received a rave Front cover review in the New York Times Book Review. The reviewer, Christopher Buckley, calls it “the funniest, smartest and most humane novel I’ve read since Tom Rachman’s 2010 debut, “The Imperfectionists.”’ And says that “Less” is excellent company. It’s no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful.” The author was also interviewed on the New York Times Book Review podcast. Little Brown published the book on July 18, 2017.
Jaroslav Kalfar’s SPACEMAN OF BOHEMIA was reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement, which calls it “dizzyingly inventive, alternately lyrical, earthy, silly and sad.” Little, Brown published SPACEMAN OF BOHEMIA on March 7, 2017...