Roxana Robinson will be reading a selection from her new novel SPARTA at BookCourt (163 Court Street, Brooklyn) on Sunday, June 16 at 7pm. Sarah Crichton Books/FSG published the book June 4, 2013.

Roxana Robinson’s SPARTA received a 4-star review in People magazine: “this page-turner…is an exceptional account of life after war.” The book also received a positive review in the Wall Street Journal, which called it “a powerful reminder both of the illness's concrete existence and of the risk it poses to veterans of America's 21st-century wars.” Sarah Crichton Books/FSG published the novel on June 4, 2013.

Ramona Ausubel’s A GUIDE TO BEING BORN was reviewed in the Barnes & Noble Review, which calls it: “both aggressively nontraditional and universally appealing” and says that “above all, Ausubel captures that eyeless beauty in the world.” Riverhead published the book on May 2, 2013

The film adaptation of Thomas Harris’ wildly popular 1988 novel, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, is featured in the June 2 New York Times film section. The article calls the infamous Hannibal Lecter ‘one of horror’s most hellish healers,’ and notes the character’s cultural longevity.

Max Barry’s new novel LEXICON was reviewed in The New York Times by Janet Maslin. She calls it, “a dark, dystopic grabber” and an “ambitious, linguistics-minded work of futurism.” The Penguin Press will publish the book June 18th, 2013.

Larry Watson’s LET HIM GO was reviewed in Kirkus, which said, “Watson’s writing is the principle pleasure here. The story is simple, ageless…the sort of book that puts the shine back on genre as an adjective to describe fiction.” Milkweed Editions will publish the book on September 3, 2013.

Ramona Ausubel’s A GUIDE TO BEING BORN was featured on Susan Stamberg’s segment “Indie Booksellers Pick Summer's Best Reads.” NPR declared it “a wonderfully weird collection of short stories” and said, “Ausubel plumbs the constant mysteries of life, death, falling in love — all these impenetrable things we human beings quest for — and honors them with the magic they deserve.” Riverhead published the book on May 2, 2013

Carter Sickels won the Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award, an award granted at the 25th Annual Lambda Literary Awards that celebrates distinguished LGBT writing. Bloomsbury published THE EVENING HOUR on January 17, 2012.

Derek B. Miller’s NORWEGIAN BY NIGHT was named one of the AARP’s twelve “Summer Reads for 2013” by the AARP, won an AudioFile Earphones Award, and debuted this week at #15 on the German bestseller list. The AARP said, “Miller's novel becomes a stunning examination of how our lives shape our character, and how our allegiances shape our destiny.”

Ed Park’s story “Slide to Unlock” was published in the New Yorker Summer Fiction Issue (June 10 & 17, 2013).