New York City Children’s Theater produced THE ADVENTURE OF HONEY AND LEON: THE MUSICAL, which ran between October 8 - October 23. The musical “celebrates and explores diverse family structures, the joy and struggles of sibling relationships, and self-empowerment.” Random House Books for Young Readers published THE ADVENTURES OF HONEY AND LEON on September 12, 2017.

Danielle Steel’s latest novel, THE HIGH NOTES, made its debut on The New York Times Bestsellers list for the week of October 30, 2022, appearing at #8 on Print Hardcover Fiction and #10 on Combined Print & E-Book Fiction. Delacorte Press published the book on October 11, 2022.

DISTANT THUNDER, the 63rd book in the Stone Barrington series by Stuart Woods, made its debut on The New York Times Bestsellers list for the week of October 30, 2022, appearing at #13 on Print Hardcover Fiction and #11 on Combined Print & E-Book Fiction. G.P. Putnam’s Sons published the book on October 11, 2022.

REST IS RESISTANCE by Tricia Hersey is a New York Times Bestseller, appearing at #4 on the Advice, How-to and Miscellaneous list. Little, Brown Spark published the book on October 11, 2022.

DECENT PEOPLE by De’Shawn Charles Winslow was featured on South Magazine’s Fall/Winter Reading List 2022-23. Bloomsbury Publishing will publish the novel on January 17, 2023.

README.txt, the highly-anticipated memoir from Chelsea Manning, published this week to a wave of media attention. Jordy Rosenberg for The Washington Post praises the “electrifying opening” of the memoir, adding: “README.txt serves as an insider confessional turned inside out for the 21st century. The perverse secret of our era, one that Manning details in multiple surreal encounters with military bureaucracy, is that everything is already known. Manning is canny in her refusal to simply embrace the confessional mode often demanded of trans writers and whistleblowers alike...Manning’s memoir may thus give us less, not more, of what we may think we know about her. But this is an artful refusal, and an important one…The narrative progression that unfolds over these pages forms a sublime arc.” Meanwhile, Margaret Sullivan for The New York Times Book Review writes: “Manning weaves together her role as a whistle-blower — utterly disillusioned by what she saw and experienced in the military — with her sad personal story…Manning’s memoir fills in some blanks and, most important, adds a searing personal element. The writing in README.txt is vivid, as its narrative moves from an Oklahoma childhood to community college in Maryland to an unpredictable decision to enlist — brought about partly by dire financial need — which eventually brought her to the Middle East.” Elsewhere, Manning sat down with ABC, CBS, WBUR and NPR Fresh Air’s podcast to discuss her memoir and her polarizing public image. Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the memoir on October 18, 2022.

HEAVY, HOW TO SLOWLY KILL YOURSELVES IN AMERICA, and LONG DIVISION author Kiese Laymon is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow. The MacArthur Foundation’s bio of Laymon reads: “Kiese Laymon is a writer bearing witness to the myriad forms of violence that mark the Black experience. Laymon’s writing across genres is grounded in radical honesty and his perspective as a Black Southern man. He exemplifies a commitment to revision in his writing practice and through his capacity for frank self-reflection.” Scribner published HEAVY on October 16, 2018, HOW TO SLOWLY KILL YOURSELVES AND OTHERS IN AMERICA on November 10, 2020, and LONG DIVISION on June 1, 2021.

Laura Warrell's debut novel SWEET, SOFT, PLENTY RHYTHM has received an abundance of critical acclaim following its publication. The book was longlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and is one of six shortlisted candidates for the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize (after also being selected as Barnes & Noble’s Discover Pick for the month of October), which "celebrates the very best new authors, elevating the joy of spotting fresh voices early on in their careers.” The novel was also featured on a flood of most-anticipated lists, widely praised as a “sensual and sinuous debut...a kaleidoscopic character study, a polyphonic riff on the modern-day Casanova” (Oprah Daily), “an enticing exploration of jazz music and the inner lives of women” (The Hollywood Reporter), and “a big-hearted multicultural world” (Apartment Therapy). A review from The Boston Globe raves: “Warrell excels at describing…points of contact — more often bruising impact than connection — conveying the varying degrees of longing, loneliness, and even aversion that can bring two people together, at least for a night…She’s also skilled at describing jazz — and, perhaps more important, what the music means to a musician…[T]his sprawling and ambitious book [is] an improvisation, and at its best, it’s beautiful.” Meanwhile, The New York Times praises: “Structured like a jam session, the novel favors a series of riffs over any one melodic theme...[E]legant, unexpected and wrenching…[A] literary high-wire act.” The Los Angeles Times featured a full profile of the author, and Lit Hub published a piece by Warrell titled “Why Jazz? Laura Warrell on Devotion to a ‘Dying’ Art Form,” where she delves into the inspirations for her novel. Lastly, the novel is an Indie Next List pick, as well as a Good Morning America Buzz Pick. Pantheon published SWEET, SOFT, PLENTY RHYTHM on September 27, 2022.

LIFE IS EVERYWHERE by Lucy Ives published to a wave of glowing reviews from Bookforum, The Los Angeles Times (“brilliantly berserk,” “often hilarious,” “a novel of academia…Its depiction of department dynamics is so pitch perfect as to be truly disconcerting to anyone with personal experience”) and The Rumpus, which hails Ives as “a Big Ideas writer on the level of Gaddis, or DeLillo, or Wallace…[O]ne of our greatest under-the-radar geniuses,” the novel an “achievement [that] demands attention.” The Chicago Review of Books places it "among the most audacious, effective, and ambitious books of recent vintage," "a novel of multitudinous brilliance and luminosity...as wide-ranging and risk-taking a novel to be found this side of Infinite Jest." The novel has also been recommended on new book roundups from Bustle, Inside Hook, and Lit Hub, the latter of which also published a new excerpt of the novel. Graywolf Press published LIFE IS EVERYWHERE on October 4, 2022.

AN IMMENSE WORLD by Ed Yong has been longlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. The shortlist will be announced on November 15, and the winners will be announced on January 29. Random House published the book on June 21, 2022.