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News - Literary News

10% HAPPIER by Dan Harris
April 3, 2014

Dan Harris’ book 10% HAPPIER How I Tamed The Voice In My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, And Found Self-Help That Actually Works- A True Story captured the #1 spot on the New York Times Best Sellers list. On April 2nd Dan Harris appeared on The Colbert Report.
On April 16th at 7pm, Mr. Harris will appear in New York City at Academy of Life @ New York Society of Ethical Culture (2 W. 64th Street). IT books published the book in hardcover March 11, 2014.

POWER PLAY by Danielle Steel
April 2, 2014

Danielle Steel’s latest novel POWER PLAY debuted at number 1 on the New York Times Hardcover fiction list for the week of March 30, 2014. Delacorte published the book March 13, 2014.

CYCLE OF LIES by Juliet Macur
March 24, 2014

CYCLE OF LIES debuted at number 21 on the New York Times Hardcover non-fiction Bestseller list for the week ending March 23, 2014. Harper published the book March 4, 2014.

Anne Rice
March 17, 2014

The announcement on her son Christopher Rice’s podcast, The Dinner Party Show, that Anne Rice would be continuing the adventures of the vampire Lestat was written up in the New York Times and The Guardian. Knopf will publish PRINCE LESTAT in October. Her most recent novel, THE WOLVES OF MIDWINTER was also published by Knopf on October 15, 2013.

Andrew Aciman
March 17, 2014

Andre Aciman’s essay “Are You Listening?: Conversations with my Deaf Mother” was published in the March 17, 2014 issue of the New Yorker. W.W. Norton will publish the paperback edition of his most recent novel HARVARD SQUARE on April 1, 2014.

DARK INVASION by Howard Blum
March 17, 2014

Howard Blum’s DARK INVASION on the New York Times Hardcover best seller list at #21. Harper published the book February 11, 2014.

"SNOW" by Shelley Jackson
February 14, 2014

Shelley Jackson's "Snow," a story in progress written entirely in snow, grabbed media attention with the live debut of its Instagram account (@snowshelleyjackson). Slate said, "Shelley Jackson has another way for you to enjoy the snow without braving the cold.” In addition to some beautiful and impressive handwriting, the story itself is both thematically apt and quite lovely." Gothamist said, "At least someone is turning all of this snow into an opportunity."

Stuart Woods, STANDUP GUY
January 24, 2014

STANDUP GUY, Stuart Woods 28th Stone Barrington novel, will debut at number 4 on the New York Times Hardcover bestseller list and number 6 on the Combined Print and E-book bestseller list for the for the week of January 26, 2014. Putnam published the book on January 7, 2014.

Elliot Ackerman
January 24, 2014

Elliot Ackerman published an essay in The Daily Beast called “The Fourth War: My Lunch with a Jihadi,” about “breaking bread with a former adversary.” His novel GREEN ON BLUE is forthcoming from Scribner.

FRANCES AND BERNARD by Carlene Bauer
January 24, 2014

FRANCES AND BERNARD was featured by Rene Steinke in the BookForum article “Flannery O'Connor, Faith, and Fiction." She says “this epistolary novel gathers power and momentum as the correspondence between the characters..becomes more fraught…Bauer does an amazing job of dramatizing the journey of this friendship, each voice a convincingly particular evocation of a literary and religious imagination.” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published the book February 5, 2013.