THE FURROWS by Namwali Serpell continues to receive stellar media attention. Serpell was featured on the cover of Publishers Weekly’s October issue, and THE FURROWS was selected as one of Publishers Weekly’s top 10 books of 2022. THE FURROWS and THE OLD DRIFT were jointly selected as NPR’s “Book of the Day” on October 14, and Serpell was interviewed by NPR’s Scott Simon and Juana Summers. Serpell was also interviewed by CBC Radio and Electric Literature, the latter of which praises Serpell’s prose as “[having] a cutting nature to it, sharp and to the point, allowing you to truly feel these characters and their voices.” Lastly, Serpell appeared on LARB’s Radio Hour, where the accompanying blurb praises THE FURROWS as a work that “defies narrative conventions and readerly expectations.” Hogarth published the novel on September 27, 2022.

AN IMMENSE WORLD by Ed Yong is one of Publishers Weekly’s top 10 books of 2022. Random House published the book on June 21, 2022.

Rachel Aviv’s STRANGERS TO OURSELVES was featured on Wired’s “Picks for the 15 Books You Need to Read This Fall.” They write: “STRANGERS TO OURSELVES is occasionally maddening but always thoughtful, and anyone with even a passing interest in mental health, identity politics, the healthcare system, or philosophy of the mind will be riveted.” Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the book on September 13, 2022.

James Spooner’s THE HIGH DESERT is one of Publishers Weekly’s “Best Books of 2022,” in the Comics category. Harper published the book on May 17, 2022.

New York City Children’s Theater produced THE ADVENTURE OF HONEY AND LEON: THE MUSICAL, which ran between October 8 - October 23. The musical “celebrates and explores diverse family structures, the joy and struggles of sibling relationships, and self-empowerment.” Random House Books for Young Readers published THE ADVENTURES OF HONEY AND LEON on September 12, 2017.

Danielle Steel’s latest novel, THE HIGH NOTES, made its debut on The New York Times Bestsellers list for the week of October 30, 2022, appearing at #8 on Print Hardcover Fiction and #10 on Combined Print & E-Book Fiction. Delacorte Press published the book on October 11, 2022.

DISTANT THUNDER, the 63rd book in the Stone Barrington series by Stuart Woods, made its debut on The New York Times Bestsellers list for the week of October 30, 2022, appearing at #13 on Print Hardcover Fiction and #11 on Combined Print & E-Book Fiction. G.P. Putnam’s Sons published the book on October 11, 2022.

REST IS RESISTANCE by Tricia Hersey is a New York Times Bestseller, appearing at #4 on the Advice, How-to and Miscellaneous list. Little, Brown Spark published the book on October 11, 2022.

DECENT PEOPLE by De’Shawn Charles Winslow was featured on South Magazine’s Fall/Winter Reading List 2022-23. Bloomsbury Publishing will publish the novel on January 17, 2023.

STRANGERS TO OURSELVES by Rachel Aviv continues to be lauded with rave reviews. Hephzibah Anderson for the Guardian US writes: “Aviv is an instinctive storyteller and her book’s episodic, immersive format is underpinned by in-depth reporting as she tracks down those closest to her subjects...Her own language is meticulous, empathic, tirelessly inquisitive...[H]er approach to mental illness [is infused] with such humility and kinship and her complex, illuminating book is all the stronger for it.” The book was also praised by the Guardian UK, where reviewer David Shariatmadari writes: “A profoundly intelligent attempt to understand the conflicting stories we tell about psychological distress…[D]espite the rival camps and competing explanations, the riddle of mental illness is not so hard – its causes are ‘an interplay between biological, genetic, psychological, and environmental factors.’ But it can be unfathomably complex as it plays out in people’s lives. Ultimately, as Aviv’s remarkable book shows, only their own stories can make sense of it.” Lastly, the book received a positive review from Slate, where reviewer Mia Amstrong-López raves “[STRANGERS TO OURSELVES] is a beautifully written, profoundly researched narrative, and each time I try to describe it to someone, I stumble over words until I finally land on ‘You just have to read it’…[STRANGERS TO OURSELVES] is about identity: the way it is tangled up in our mental health systems and the cultural narratives about those systems—shifted and shaped and transformed by them… Worn-out, generalized narratives of mental illness often make our own stories feel static. Perhaps it is only through sharing them that we realize they rarely are.” Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the book on September 13, 2022.