DESPERATE MEASURES, the 47th novel in the Stone Barrington series, will debut this weekend at number 5 for Combined Print & E-book Fiction and at number 13 for Hardcover Fiction on The New York Times Bestsellers List. G.P. Putnam’s Sons published the book on October 16, 2018.

Amazon Books Editors named the BEASTIE BOYS BOOK as one of the Best Books of November. Spiegel & Grau published the book on October 30, 2018.

Amazon Books Editors named THOSE WHO KNEW by Idra Novey as one of the Best Books of November. Viking will publish the book on November 6, 2018.

“HEAVY is a gorgeous, gutting book that’s fueled by candor yet freighted with ambivalence,” writes Jen Szalai in an enthusiastic New York Times review of Kiese Laymon’s memoir. “This generous, searching book explores all the forces that can stop even the most buoyant hopes from ever leaving the ground.” Scribner published the book on October 16, 2018.

The Chronicle of Higher Education named Maggie Nelson’s THE ARGONAUTS part of the New Canon, and one of the most influential books of the past 20 years. “The Argonauts is going to be a model for a lot of writing we will see in literary studies, feminist studies, queer studies, and allied fields.” Graywolf published the book on May 5, 2015.

The latest novel in Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles series has made its debut on the New York Times Bestseller list, landing at number 5 on the Hardcover Fiction list and number 11 on the Combined Print and E-book Fiction list. Knopf published the book on October 2, 2018.

New York Times and Rolling Stone interviewed Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz about their “wild, moving memoir” (Rolling Stone), and The Guardian published an early excerpt of the highly-anticipated BEASTIE BOYS BOOK. Spiegel & Grau will publish the book on October 30, 2018.

Gina Apostol’s new book, INSURRECTO, was chosen as the cover of Publishers Weekly. In the boxed and starred review, they said of the book, “This is a complex and aptly vertiginous novel that deconstructs how humans tell stories and decide which versions of events are remembered… Apostol’s layers of narrative, pop culture references, and blurring of history and fiction make for a profound and unforgettable journey into the past and present of the Philippines.”

Kiese Laymon’s HEAVY has been selected for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction shortlist; it is one of three books to be honored. Scribner published the book on October 16, 2018.

An amazing feature of Andrea Lawlor and the burgeoning state of trans literature ran today in the New York Times. ““I came of age in the 90s,” Lawlor said. “Everyone was dying of AIDS. So people were like, wait a minute, what about play and pleasure and performance?”” Andrea Lawlor’s debut novel, PAUL TAKES THE FORM OF A MORTAL GIRL, was originally published by Rescue Press on November 1, 2017. Vintage will reissue the book next spring.