An amazing feature of Andrea Lawlor and the burgeoning state of trans literature ran today in the New York Times. ““I came of age in the 90s,” Lawlor said. “Everyone was dying of AIDS. So people were like, wait a minute, what about play and pleasure and performance?”” Andrea Lawlor’s debut novel, PAUL TAKES THE FORM OF A MORTAL GIRL, was originally published by Rescue Press on November 1, 2017. Vintage will reissue the book next spring.

Kelsey Miller’s definitive book on the TV show Friends, I’LL BE THERE FOR YOU made the new release lists of HelloGiggles, Newsday, Brit + Co, Bookstr, and The Columbus Dispatch. Hanover Square Press published the book on October 23, 2018.

Elle, selecting HEAVY as “The 19 Best Books of 2018 (So Far),” called Laymon’s memoir “a staggering opus… a heartbreaking narrative on black bodies: how we hurt them, protect them, and try to heal them.” HEAVY also received a rave review from NPR books where Martha Anne Toll writes, “Dear America, please read this book. Kiese Laymon is a star in the American literary firmament, with a voice that is courageous, honest, loving, and singularly beautiful.”

Ramona Ausubel’s short essay on libraries “It Made Me a Novelist” will appear in the October 21, 2018 issue of The New York Book Review. Riverhead published the book on March 6, 2018.

Vanity Fair interviewed Elliot Ackerman about his latest novel, WAITING FOR EDEN, which they call “A grim but ultimately hopeful look at the way people love during a crisis.” Knopf published the book on September 25, 2018

FULL DISCLOSURE, proclaimed by The New York Times as “The latest and perhaps juiciest Trump tell-all to land this year,” has debuted at number 11 on The New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller List. St. Martin’s Press published the book on October 2, 2018.

Yrsa Daley-Ward’s BONE was featured on Signature Reads' “10 Collections That Celebrate the Voices of Black Poets.” Signature Reads writes, “BONE's stanzas exorcise, invoke, and conjure. Daley-Ward’s poems will unfetter whatever binds you.” Penguin Books published the book on September 26, 2017.

Anand Giridharadas was interviewed about “The Myths of the Ruling Class” by MSNBC host Chris Hayes on the Why Is This Happening podcast.

Giridharadas also published an Op-Ed on October 12th in the New York Times called “Silicon Valley’s Saudi Arabia Problem.” Knopf published the book on August 28, 2018.

Kelsey Miller’s I’LL BE THERE FOR YOU, a history of the TV show Friends, is on Bustle’s list of “18 New Nonfiction Books to Know in October 2018”. Hanover Square will publish the book on October 23, 2018

Ashleigh Young’s CAN YOU TOLERATE THIS? is one of the New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “10 New Books We Recommend this Week”. Riverhead published the book on July 3, 2018.