FINDING ASHLEY debuted at number 1 on the New York Times monthly mass-market bestseller list for the month of March 2022. Dell released the mass-market edition of FINDING ASHLEY on January 25, 2022.

THE BEAUTY OF LIVING TWICE by Sharon Stone published in paperback this week. The book was featured on Vogue’s best-of list for 2021, praised as “[t]rim and elegantly written with [Stone's] wicked sense of humor on full display...[and] catnip for fans who have never managed to crack the exterior of the elusive star…[THE BEAUTY OF LIVING TWICE] will leave readers with a renewed appreciation for Stone and her tenacity.” Knopf published the hardcover edition on March 30, 2021, and the paperback on March 1, 2022.

Dawnie Walton’s THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV is a finalist for the 2022 Aspen Words Literary prize, which is awarded annually for “an influential work of fiction focused on vital contemporary issues.” The jury’s citation for the book reads: “As innovative in form as it is soulful in delivery, THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL AND NEV is a dazzling exploration of the spectacular and eerie complications of the way race, gender and punk rock necessarily collide. What can these collisions produce? The book is a tutorial in the possibilities and terrifying limitations of an interracial duo who seem to move in two very different directions upon their breakup. Dawnie Walton blurs the lines between revelation and realization in a book that witnesses, and really undulates under, the weight of professional and personal secrets, while picking away at the very real desire for American progress with few substantial models for reciprocal American reckoning.” The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony on April 21 at The Morgan Library in New York City. THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV was also featured on People magazine’s round-up of “Contemporary Black Authors…Loved by Kerry Washington, Barack Obama, and More,” alongside quotes from Barack Obama’s Twitter (“Art always sustains and nourishes the soul. But for me, music and storytelling felt especially urgent during this pandemic year”) and Stacey Abrams’ review for Politico (“Walton's story tackles complicated issues of race and success using music as its crucible — and the fractious 1970s as a galvanizing point”). 37 Ink published the novel on March 30, 2021.

Vanity Fair included THE STARS ARE NOT YET BELLS by Hannah Lillith Assadi on its staff’s list of “9 Books [They] Couldn’t Put Down This Month.” Staff writer Erin Vanderhoof praises: “Assadi’s second novel…[is a] melancholic tableau spiced up with a few unexpected plot lines.” Riverhead Books published the novel on January 11, 2022.

Sarah Manguso’s debut novel VERY COLD PEOPLE was featured in The New Yorker’s Briefly Noted segment. They praise: “In minimalist, austere prose, Manguso conjures the torpor, stasis, and ambient suffering that envelop a whole town: ‘The background of my life was white and angry, with violent weather.’” Hogarth published the novel on February 8, 2022.

VANDERBILT by Anderson Cooper is celebrating over 20 weeks on The New York Times Business Bestseller list. Harper published the book on September 21, 2021.

Tomi Obaro sat down with Oprah Daily as part of the feature “12 Authors Share Their Favorite Black-Owned Bookstores,” amongst fellow “esteemed authors” Stacey Abrams, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and Jacqueline Woodson. Obaro endorsed Marcus Books in Oakland, California, “struck…by the sheer range and breadth of the books they sell.” Knopf will publish DELE WEDS DESTINY on June 28, 2022.

The New York Times featured VERY COLD PEOPLE by Sarah Manguso on a list of Editor’s Choice must-reads. They write: “The memoirist and essayist Manugso’s first novel is about Ruthie, who grows up in a small, perpetually snowy Massachusetts town…[She] writes poignantly of Ruthie’s faith in a maternal love that isn’t really there, and of her dawning comprehension of what might have made it impossible. ‘Manguso also writes poetry, and this is apparent in her fiction,’ our critic Alexandra Jacobs says. ‘Though dealing with life’s ugly, messy truths, her writing is compact and beautiful.’” Hogarth published the novel on February 8, 2022.

LOVE IN THE TIME OF CONTAGION by Laura Kipnis received a starred review from Booklist. Reviewer Carol Haggas writes: “By tapping into the Zoom-fueled zeitgeist, Kipnis brings an ironic perspective to this most intimate of subjects. Disarmingly honest, voyeuristically campy, Kipnis’ discussion of COVID-19-influenced coupledom is both witty and wise.” The New York Times also featured the book on a list of Editor’s Choice must-reads: “In her latest book, the critic, polemicist and professor Kipnis examines the state of romance in stuffy enclosures during the days of Covid…The book is ‘perfectly equidistant between riff and investigation,’ our critic Molly Young writes. ‘Kipnis launches provocations with the frequency of a tennis ball machine.’” Pantheon published the book on February 8, 2022.

Mary Kuryla of Lit Hub featured THE STARS ARE NOT YET BELLS by Hannah Lillith Assadi in her literary roundup of “Deeply Flawed Mother Figures of Literature.” She writes: “In Assadi’s rendering of dementia, we are rewarded with a privileged view of a mother’s secrets and passions simply by virtue of what insists in the mind and what muddles. Can we be surprised that motherhood and its demands, for all its insistence, winds up in the muddle?” Riverhead Books published the novel on January 11, 2022.