THE STRANGER DIARIES by Elly Griffiths has won the 2020 Edgar Award for Best Novel. This is Griffiths’ second Edgar Award, as she was awarded the Mary Higgins Clark Award in 2011 for her novel THE CROSSING PLACES. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published the book on March 5, 2019.

Mary Pauline Lowry’s THE ROXY LETTERS was featured in Buzzfeed’s roundup of “24 Books That Are So Funny, You’ll Look Like the Crying-Laughing Emoji While You’re Reading.” The list represents Libro.fm’s selection of the funniest and most popular audiobooks that readers are listening to right now. The audio edition of ROXY is read by Jayme Mattler, and is available to download wherever audiobooks are sold. Simon & Schuster published the book on April 7, 2020.

WHAT BLEST GENIUS? is the 2019 winner of the Marfield Prize. The Marfield Prize annually recognizes an author of an outstanding nonfiction book about the visual, literary, media, or performing arts. W.W. Norton & Company published the second edition of the book on April 2, 2019.

Wayne Koestenbaum’s latest collection of essays received a rave review from the New York Times. They write: “Whatever [Koestenbaum’s] subject—favorites include porn, punctuation and the poetry of Frank O’Hara—the goal is always to jigger logic and language free of its moorings . . . His great and singular appeal is this fealty to his own desire and imagination.” Soft Skull Press published the book on May 5, 2020.

Jessica Rotondi’s astonishing debut, WHAT WE INHERIT, published this past Tuesday to great praise from Buzzfeed and Women Writers Magazine. Rotondi also spoke with Fast Company and Literary Hub about the ten years of research she conducted into her uncle’s disappearance during the Secret War in Laos in 1972. Finally, in an article for Electric Lit, Rotondi recommends “7 Books About Forgotten Wars.” Unnamed Press published the book on April 21, 2020.

The Cut ran an excerpt of Emily Gould’s new novel PERFECT TUNES on their website, along with a short interview with Gould about some of the topics that are spotlighted in her novel, such as creativity, motherhood, vomit, and money. Simon & Schuster published the book on April 14, 2020.

Hannah Orenstein’s forthcoming novel, HEAD OVER HEELS, has been featured in Marie Claire’s roundup of “The 2020 Books You Should Pre-Order Now.” Atria Books will publish the book on June 23, 2020.

ONE LONG RIVER OF SONG, the essay collection from the late writer Brian Doyle, received glowing praise from The Chicago Tribune. They write: “Over and over, [Doyle’s] musings are canticles of joy, punctuated with occasional double-shots of heartbreak and humility. It’s the textured layering, the leap from shadow to light, that keeps the reader alert, and ever absorbing.” Little, Brown and Company published the book on December 3, 2019.

Lynn Casteel Harper’s debut essay collection received a rave review from the New York Times. They call the book “beautifully unconventional,” and say that Harper “writes without fear or aversion but with a robust, restless curiosity, a keenness to reframe our understanding of dementia with sensitivity and accuracy.” Catapult published the book on April 14, 2020.

Former Wu-Tang Clan manager and music executive Sophia Chang’s unmissable memoir, THE BADDEST BITCH IN THE ROOM, received a glowing review from Publishers Weekly. “There’s a self-empowerment vibe throughout,” they rave, adding that “[t]his impassioned memoir is filled with energy.” The memoir was published as an Audible Original on September 26, 2019, and Catapult will publish the paperback edition on September 8, 2020.