Debutiful interviewed Jamie Figueroa about her debut novel, BROTHER, SISTER, MOTHER, EXPLORER. When asked about how “being othered…as a child influenced [her] writing,” Figueroa said: “When you were pushed to the margins in the community you grew up in and around, you’re given a very particular vantage point to observe. Because there is this subtext that you are not safe, you become hyper vigilant. You are activating all of your senses, constantly. That can really be fatiguing and traumatizing, but it can make for the perfect environment for an artist to potentially reference that experience of watching and taking in those details. I would say that’s what it did for me.” Catapult published the book on March 2, 2021.

Wayne Koestenbaum’s collection of fables, THE CHEERFUL SCAPEGOAT, is featured on The New York Times Book Review’s New & Noteworthy. They write: “These charmingly insouciant short stories by the noted critic, poet and essayist exhibit the same surreal whimsy that distinguishes his work in other formats.” Meanwhile, Negar Azimi raves for Bookforum: “Koestenbaum’s imaginative magic extends to his sentences, sensuous and syntactically adventurous, rarely a means to an end but ends in themselves—bravura, permissive, frivolous. His lines make one’s own feel anorexic, dull by comparison.” Lastly, the collection received a glowing blurb from COSMOGONY author Lucy Ives, who praises it as “an elegant, rude book—beautiful and acerbically composed. Like scenes scripted by Edward Gorey and directed by Ryan Trecartin, Wayne Koestenbaum’s brief parables manage to be at once delicate and extreme, vile and flowery, coolly precise and gorgeously insane. I don’t know anyone else who writes like this.” Semiotext(e) published the book on March 23, 2021.

EVERYBODY by Oliva Laing has earned another starred review, this time from Kirkus. They write: “Laing reveals in visceral detail society’s terror of ‘different kinds of bodies mixing too freely’ and envisions a future in which that terror no longer exists. Intellectually vigorous and emotionally stirring.” W.W. Norton will publish the book on May 4, 2021.

Robert Jones Jr. joined the Bookworm Podcast for an interview and reading of his novel, THE PROPHETS. G.P. Putnam’s Sons published the book on January 5, 2021.

2034 by Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis will make its debut on the New York Times Bestseller list for the week of March 28th, at number 6 on both the Combined Print & E-book Fiction and Hardcover Fiction lists. Penguin Press published the book on March 9, 2021.

THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV by Dawnie Walton is Black Girl Magic Wine's first ever book club pick. The novel is also featured on Library Journal’s list of “The Best Debut Novels of Spring and Summer 2021.” 37 Ink will publish the novel on March 30, 2021.

The AU Review praises Jamie Figueroa’s BROTHER, SISTER, MOTHER, EXPLORER as "exquisite…filled with rich imagery and lyrical prose. Figueroa packs plenty into the novel’s modest page count, with characters both tangible and all-but magical bursting off the page…Brimming with elegant, poetic writing, Figueroa has offered us a truly original debut. An absolute must read." Library Journal also features the novel on their list of “The Best Debut Novels of Spring and Summer 2021,” praising it as "[g]orgeously rendered.” Catapult published the book on March 2, 2021.

Hermione Hoby penned the cover story for Vanity Fair’s April issue, a profile of THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT star Anya Taylor-Joy. Riverhead books will publish Hoby’s next novel, VIRTUE, on July 20, 2021.

Danielle Steel appeared on Good Morning America to discuss her new book, THE AFFAIR. LVMH’s Loewe also featured an excerpt of the novel – translated into 20 languages – as part of their special newspaper debuting their Fall/Winter 2021 collection titled “The Loewe Show Has Been Cancelled.” Vogue interviewed Steel about the collaboration, and Steel expressed her excitement: “It just really worked, and the timing was so perfect. I think everybody needs a boost creatively and spirit-wise. It’s so fun to do something exciting and happy and different, and I was really thrilled to be included in it.” Loewe’s creative director, Jonathan Anderson, also interviewed Steel for the Casa Loewe Conversations podcast. Delacorte Press published THE AFFAIR on March 2, 2021.

The paperback edition of Cathy Park Hong’s MINOR FEELINGS is on the LA Times and Indie Bound’s bestsellers lists this week. The book is also featured on Business Insider’s and Electric Literature’s lists of books to understand and combat Asian-American racism. Business Insider writes: “Reading this collection of essays felt like scratching an itch that I didn't know I had. Hong's voice is a resounding one in the world of Asian-American creative nonfiction, one that seeks to break out of the mold completely and resists the categorization of Asian American authorship altogether as it relates to the fetishization of otherness and trauma." Lastly, Hong was interviewed by Alexander Chee of Medium about the essay collection, and to discuss “how the pandemic has cracked open discrimination against Asian American communities.” One World published the hardcover edition of MINOR FEELINGS on February 25, 2020, and published the paperback on March 2, 2021.