BEARSKIN has received a second starred review, this time from Kirkus, which wrote of the novel, “Told in spare prose and portraying the authentic mechanics of hunting, combat, and psychological defense, the novel dares the reader to root for this damaged antihero but convinces us that he's worth it. An intense, visceral debut equal to the best that country noir has to offer.” Ecco Press will publish the book on June 12, 2018.

Kirkus has given NORTHLAND a starred review, saying of the book, “Richly populated with fascinating northlanders, Native Americans, and many border patrol agents, this is highly entertaining and informative travel literature.” Norton will publish the book July 3, 2018.

THE BOOK OF ESSIE is an IndieNext pick for the month of June. Liv Stratman, of Books Are Magic, said of the novel, “I couldn’t stop turning the pages to see what would happen to Essie and Roarke, the boy Essie’s mother has decided she will marry in a primetime, live-televised wedding. Weir proves herself to be a brilliant new talent with a sensitive but unflinching take on child exploitation and life in the public eye. A must-read!” Knopf will publish the book June 12, 2018.

Chelsey Johnson’s STRAY CITY is New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, where they lauded it as an “engrossing debut novel explores a young, single, lesbian mother’s path to self-discovery and self-acceptance.” Custom House published the book on March 20, 2018.

Publisher’s Weekly has given BEARSKIN a starred review, and included it in their Best Books of the Summer roundup. They said of the novel, “the novel’s denouement, a smoothly orchestrated confluence of the greater and lesser subplots, plays out against a tempest-tossed natural setting whose intrinsic beauty and roughness provide the perfect context for the story’s volatile events. This is a thrilling, thoroughly satisfying debut.” Ecco Press will publish the book on June 12, 2018.

This is a book that, with irony and insight, dismantles the reasons you’re not meditating—and provides a range of meditation practices that meet you where you are in life. Now into the sixth printing!

The New York Times bestselling author of BERGDORF BLONDES takes us back to the decadent 1980s in this comic murder mystery set in the tony world of Oxford University. Oprah picked Plum’s novel as a top twenty books to read last summer and now it is available in paperback. Harper Paperbacks will publish this on May 8, 2018.

Salon held an interview this week with Cutter Wood, “A murder mystery and an author’s dark obsession in ‘Love and Death In the Sunshine State.” The Paris Review Daily also featured Cutter Wood’s essay “The Difficulty in Writing About Murder” this week. Algonquin published his debut book, LOVE AND DEATH IN THE SUNSHINE STATE: THE STORY OF A CRIME, on April 17, 2018.

Ronan Farrow has won the 2018 Pulitzer in Public Service for “explosive, impactful journalism that exposed powerful and wealthy sexual predators, including allegations against one of Hollywood’s most influential producer,” beginning with his breaking piece: “Harvey Weinstein’s Army of Spies” in The New Yorker, Fall 2017.

Andrew Sean Greer’s endearing and lyrical novel, LESS, has won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Lee Boudreaux Books published the novel July 18, 2017.