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THE ARGONAUTS by Maggie Nelson
May 8, 2015

Maggie Nelson’s THE ARGONAUTS is a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, and was reviewed by Jennifer Szalai for the newspaper. “So much writing about motherhood makes the world seem smaller after the child arrives, more circumscribed, as if in tacit fealty to the larger cultural assumptions about moms and domesticity; Nelson’s book does the opposite,” observes Szalai. Graywolf published the book on May 5, 2015.

ONGOINGNESS by Sarah Manguso
May 8, 2015

Sarah Manguso was interviewed by Caitlin Johnson in Bookforum for her book ONGOINGNESS. Graywolf published the book on March 3, 2015.

NOT MY FATHER’S SON by Alan Cumming
May 8, 2015

Before you see him host the Tony Awards, you can read his memoir. In his unique and engaging voice, the acclaimed actor of stage and screen shares the emotional story of his complicated relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets that shaped his life and career. Dey Street published this New York Times Bestseller in paperback May 5, 2015.

THE ARGONAUTS by Maggie Nelson
May 1, 2015

Maggie Nelson’s THE ARGONAUTS is one of PW’s Best Summer Books and was reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books, which called it a “brilliant and poetically associative search” and said, “She does not bend genre so much as she refuses to bend her writing to meet genre’s demands, and it is that unbendingness that makes her work so fresh, compelling, dark, and intimate.”

GREEN ON BLUE by Elliot Ackerman
May 1, 2015

Elliot Ackerman’s GREEN ON BLUE is John Warner’s “top read of the year thus far,” cited in the Chicago Tribune. Scribner published the book on February 17, 2015.

WHERE WE WANT TO LIVE by Ryan Gravel
May 1, 2015

Ryan Gravel, author of the forthcoming book WHERE WE WANT TO LIVE and urban designer, will be a panel member of The New York Times’s Cities of Tomorrow conference. Gravel’s 1999 master’s thesis became the basis for the Atlanta Beltline, a 22-mile greenway that is revitalizing the former industrial neighborhood of downtown Atlanta. The conference will be held in New York City from July 20th to 21st this summer. Palgrave Macmillan will publish the book in March 2016.

“The Abortion Ministry of Dr. Willie Parker” by John H. Richardson
May 1, 2015

John H. Richardson has won the 2015 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism for his story in Esquire which tells the story of the last abortion clinic in Mississippi and the courageous evangelical doctor who works there. The Hillman Prize aims to support and foster investigative reporting and deep storytelling in service of the common good. Esquire published the piece in September, 2014.

A GIRL AND HER GREENS by April Bloomfield
April 30, 2015

Subtitled HEARTY MEALS FROM THE GARDEN by the winner of the 2014 James Beard award for Best Chef in New York and the chef and author of the critically lauded A Girl and Her Pig, April Bloomfield, comes a beautiful, fully illustrated cookbook that offers scrumptious seasonal recipes for her true love—vegetables. Ecco published the hard cover 4/21/15.

THIEVES FALL OUT by Gore Vidal
April 30, 2015

Originally published under Mr. Vidal’s crime fiction pseudonym, Cameron Kay, Thieves Fall Out is overflowing with political and sexual intrigue, and provides a delicious glimpse into the mind of Gore Vidal in his formative years. Hard Case Crime published April 21, 2015.

Chris Stewart
April 30, 2015

Chris Stewart, author of JUNGLELAND, is part of the team of Wall Street Journal reporters who won a Pulitzer Prize in the investigative category. The staff won for the paper’s “Medicare Unmasked” series that provided Americans “unprecedented access to previously confidential data on the motivations and practices of their health care providers.” The Journal’s stories came after a prolonged legal fight that led the government to release the data. JUNGLELAND was published by Harper on January 8, 2013.