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In The Seattle Times, Irene Wanner described Lucy Cooke’s book THE TRUTH ABOUT ANIMALS as “wildly delightful… Lucy Cooke’s extensive travels, research and sense of humor make THE TRUTH ABOUT ANIMALS a fascinating modern bestiary.” Basic Books published the title on April 17, 2018.
Chelsey Johnson was interviewed by Carter Sickels for Lambda Literary last week, who called the book “Brilliant… STRAY CITY is a hilarious, smart, and complicated novel about queer identity and community and self-discovery.” Custom House published the book on March 20, 2018.
Habash’s debut STEPHEN FLORIDA was selected as a Young Lions Fiction Award finalist, which honors the works of five talented young authors. Coffee House Press published the book on June 6, 2017.
The Hollywood Reporter announced that John Krasinski’s follow-up to the hit horror film, A QUIET PLACE will be an adaptation of Cecil Castelluci’s short story “We Have Always Lived on Mars.” Tor Books released the story as an e-book on April 30, 2013.
The latest novel from Danielle Steel debuted at #1 on both the New York Times Combined Print & E-book Fiction & Hardcover Fiction bestseller lists for the week of April 8th. Delacorte Press published the book on March 20, 2018.
Our society is largely failure averse – but more acceptance of failure would go a long way to making the world a better place. H. Jon Benjamin (actor, voice actor and stand-up comedian) has written a book which explores a wide variety of things that he has failed at and from which society can learn a thing or two. Dutton will publish the hardcover edition on May 1, 2018.
Paul Simon himself not only opened up to acclaimed biographer Robert Hilburn (who was chief pop-music critic for the Los Angeles Times for more than three decades) for what has amounted to more than one hundred hours, he also urged his family and friends to speak. This is the biographer’s dream: total access and total editorial control. Simon & Schuster will publish the hardcover edition May 8, 2018.
A book for anyone who has fought a battle in life. Hatch writes of the horrific wound to his leg; of having no choice but to end his military career; of coming home to the country he’d spent his life defending; of the ordeal of getting well physically (eighteen surgeries; twelve months of recovery; learning to walk again); of having to find out who he was as a man apart from the chaotic world of special operations missions;
An unforgettable book by one of the finest reporters of our time, The Last Cowboys is a moving tribute to an American way of life. Pulitzer Prize winner, John Branch has written a gripping portrait of one family’s gamble that rodeo and ranching are the future of the West—and not just its past. W.W. Norton will publish the hardcover May 15, 2018.
Yrsa Daley-Ward, author of the poetry collection BONE and the forthcoming memoir THE TERRIBLE, was featured and interviewed in Vice, who calls her “a master at expressing black pain in a manner that offers a collective catharsis.”