Booklist calls BECOMING A WRITER, STAYING A WRITER by J. Michael Straczynski "[a] funny and candid guide to the writing life." BenBella Books will publish the book on June 1, 2021.

GOLDEN GATES by Conor Dougherty is a nonfiction finalist for the 90th Annual California Book Awards. Award Jury Chair Peter Fish writes: “We think this year’s finalists are especially timely, innovative, and thought-provoking…[the finalists] demonstrate the extraordinary diversity of California literature.” Penguin Press published the book on February 18, 2020.

Alex McElroy’s debut novel THE ATMOSPHERIANS received a great review from the Washington Post. They call the book “a sharp-edged view of how contemporary gender politics have changed culture,” offering “trenchant commentary on our society’s fraught gender dynamics.” Vanity Fair also listed the novel on its recommended reads for May, raving: “The novel balances perfectly on the razor’s edge between reality and absurdism, the place where excellent satire dwells, while spinning a complex investigation of huge topics: guilt, culpability, loyalty, sexism, fatphobia, abuse of power…. It is a book about craving—fame, food, praise, each other, ourselves—and it is a book to be devoured.” Atria Books published the novel on May 18, 2021.

BuzzFeed News featured David Hoon Kim’s debut novel, PARIS IS A PARTY, PARIS IS A GHOST, as one its “28 New Books To Add To Your Summer Reading List ASAP." They call it a "hypnotic, inventive debut...It’s a brilliant and absurd meditation on what it means to be haunted.” Farrar, Straus, and Giroux will publish the novel on August 3, 2021.

TIME magazine featured THE ONES WHO DON’T SAY THEY LOVE YOU by Maurice Carlos Ruffin on its list of “36 New Books You Need to Read This Summer," praising the way Ruffin “highlights experiences both specific and universal about people living on the margins while simultaneously capturing the culture and spirit of New Orleans.” One World will publish the book on August 17, 2021.

TIME magazine featured CHINA ROOM by Sunjeev Sahota on its list of “36 New Books You Need to Read This Summer," praising the way Sahota “examines agency, power and human connection.” Viking will publish the novel on July 13, 2021.

THE PROPHETS by Robert Jones Jr. was featured on Goodread’s list of “9 Books that Goodreads Editors Highly Recommend.” Senior Editor Cybil Wallace raves: “Believe the hype, folks! This buzzy debut was one of the first books I read in 2021 and it's pretty much set an impossibly high bar for the rest of the year. Chronicling a gorgeous love story between two enslaved Black men on a Mississippi plantation, with a large and memorable cast of secondary characters, THE PROPHETS is by turns brutal and beautiful.” G.P. Putnam’s Sons published the book on January 5, 2021.

THE PRETTIEST STAR by Carter Sickels is a fiction finalist for the 2021 Ohioana Book Awards. The winners will be announced in July, and an awards ceremony is set for October 14th at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. Hub City Press published the book on May 19, 2020.

Alex McElroy’s debut novel, THE ATMOSPHERIANS, launched this week to much fanfare. The A.V. Club offered a glowing review, calling the novel “bold, mischievous, and brilliant,” and McElroy sat down for interviews with BOMB Magazine and The Rumpus to discuss their process in crafting their first book. McElroy also published original pieces in BuzzFeed and Literary Hub, and has essays forthcoming in Esquire, Vulture, The Atlantic, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, and The Cut. McElroy’s virtual book tour includes events with Kristin Arnett, T Kira Madden, Alex Higley, Lauren Oyler, and other amazing fellow authors. Atria Books published the novel on May 18, 2021.

EVERYBODY by Oliva Laing continues to gain glowing reviews. The New Yorker raves: "EVERYBODY possesses a looseness, richness, and abundance of originality…One does not expect a political study to perform such sharp close readings of art and literature, or to describe emotions so elegantly…Line by line and thought by thought, Laing writes with surgical discipline." Meanwhile, The Guardian writes: “Laing’s impassioned commitment to the promise of bodily freedom, of every body’s right to move and feel and love without harming or being harmed, shines through every sentence of the book. But she is too canny a writer to miss the rich and bitter irony in which efforts to realise this promise so often get caught: every movement to liberate the body comes to be marked in some way by the constrictive regime it’s trying to escape.” W.W. Norton & Company published the book on May 4, 2021.