THE LOST APOTHECARY by Sarah Penner is one of Amazon’s top 100 books of the year. The book was also nominated for the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Debut Novel and Best Historical Novel. The opening round of voting will conclude on November 28, and winners will be announced on December 9. Park Row published the book on March 2, 2021.

APPLESEED by Matt Bell is one of Amazon’s twenty Best Science Fiction & Fantasy titles of the year. The book was also nominated for the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Science Fiction. The opening round of voting will conclude on November 28, and winners will be announced on December 9. Custom House published the novel on July 13, 2021.

THE PROPHETS by Robert Jones, Jr. is one of Amazon’s twenty Best Literature & Fiction titles of the year, as well as one of the top 100 overall books of the year. The book was also nominated for the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Historical Fiction and Best Debut Novel. The opening round of voting will conclude on November 28, and winners will be announced on December 9. G.P. Putnam’s Sons published the book on January 5, 2021.

SCIENTIST: E.O. WILSON: A LIFE IN NATURE by Richard Rhodes is one of Amazon’s twenty Best Science books of the year. Doubleday published the book on November 9, 2021.

Alan Cumming will appear at the 38th annual Miami Book Fair on November 20 to discuss his memoir, BAGGAGE. The event will be moderated by author Julio Capó Jr., associate professor of history at Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs, and will be accessible both in person and via livestream. Dey Street Books published BAGGAGE on October 26, 2021.

Padma Lakshmi, whose TASTE THE NATION just launched its second season, discussed her inspirations and Thanksgiving cooking techniques with Genevieve Ko, a senior editor for The New York Times Food section and NYT Cooking. Ko writes: “Ms. Lakshmi, 51, was born in India, and returned regularly after moving to the United States as a toddler. There, she ground spices and simmered dal with her grandmother and aunts, an experience that inspired her children’s book, TOMATOES FOR NEELA.” Viking Books for Young Readers published TOMATOES FOR NEELA on August 31, 2021.

Tanaïs' highly anticipated IN SENSORIUM received a glowing review from Publishers Weekly. The reviewer writes: “Novelist and perfumer Tanaïs (BRIGHT LINES) blends in this beautiful work memoir, history, and notes on perfuming to interrogate love, violence, and generational healing…Throughout, rich imagery and language are married as Tanaïs moves through their ancestral trauma to discover a place of healing, where, they write, 'a perfume emerges as a sensuous act of resistance.' Readers will find more than just their olfactory senses heightened by this beautiful meditation.” Mariner Books will publish the book on February 22, 2022.

Kiese Laymon sat down for an interview for The Ezra Klein Show podcast, guest-hosted by Tressie McMillan Cottom. In her introduction, Cottom raves: "Kiese Laymon is the most uncompromising artist I have had the pleasure of knowing...His nonfiction tackles race, gender, sports, popular culture, the politics of literary publishing and, above all, his relationship with his home state of Mississippi. His writing expresses a radical hope that Mississippi, and by extension America, can change for the better. Kiese’s prose crackles with wit, resistance and revolution, yes. But it also simmers with wisdom, vulnerability, empathy and even love. Breaking from iconoclastic American novelists like Hemingway and Faulkner, Kiese Laymon is not afraid to love on the page for all of us to see. His style of courageous art takes conviction and a very clear idea of who you are." Scribner published the reissue of HOW TO SLOWLY KILL YOURSELF IN AMERICA AND OTHERS on November 10, 2020.

Continuing its streak of positive reviews, SCIENTIST: E.O. WILSON: A LIFE IN NATURE by Richard Rhodes received another stellar review, this time from The Wall Street Journal. The reviewer raves that the book “is cause for celebration…providing succinct, nuanced summaries of some of [Wilson’s] major insights, enriched by frequent forays into the history of modern biology.” Doubleday will publish the book on November 9, 2021.

ON FREEDOM by Maggie Nelson continues to generate positive praise. The book received a glowing review from Commweal: “Nelson is, above all, a writer of prose and poetry often startling in its aptness, precision, and unexpectedness…[ON FREEDOM] is a subtle and elegant book…What is important about this book is not only its argument but also that it is an excellent example of the practices it commends.” Meanwhile, Ruminate raves: “The intellectual method of this poet, essayist, critic, and MacArthur genius grant recipient, is to focus her attention where the thicket of our inherited ideas is its thorniest, where mutually antagonistic concepts, practices, and values are knotted. This is where her subtle and nuanced thinking is at its best…Nelson is our day’s ur-thinker for nuance, our own private Susan Sontag.” Nelson also sat down to discuss ON FREEDOM with Christina Quarles for Artforum’s “Writers on Artists” series. Graywolf Press published ON FREEDOM on September 7, 2021.