Antonia Angress’ forthcoming novel SIRENS & MUSES was featured on Library Journal’s list of “Top Spring/Summer Debuts: 39 Titles to Know,” where they praise: “Art and politics here enhance each other in liquid, luminous language.” SIRENS & MUSES has also received stunning blurbs from a rarified group of authors, including THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV author Dawnie Walton (“SIRENS & MUSES features characters as flawed as they are talented—full of desire, ambition, and aching regret. Their journeys engrossed me till the very last page”), THE REVISIONERS author Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (“Powerful, elegant, and mesmerizing, SIRENS & MUSES reimagines ambition, passion, identity, and the intricate bonds between women. Antonia Angress is a writer to watch”), and THE SUN COLLECTIVE author Charles Baxter (“Brilliant…This narrative is intricate, moving, and often funny, and its scenes are beautifully crafted…A wonderful book”). Ballantine Books will publish the novel on July 12, 2022.

The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award announced HADES, ARGENTINA by Daniel Loedel as one of 20 debut novels to make the award’s 2022 longlist. The award “honors an outstanding debut novel published in the preceding calendar year. Symbolized by a three-dimensional compass, the award is a tribute to writers who have navigated their way through the maze of imagination and delivered a great read, taking the reader someplace new.” Riverhead Books published the novel on January 12, 2021.

Publishers Weekly reviewed HOW YOU GET FAMOUS by Nicole Pasulka, praising: “Journalist Pasulka debuts with an entertaining deep dive into the last decade of the Brooklyn drag scene…LGBTQ history buffs and fans of [RUPAUL’S] DRAG RACE will be hard-pressed to find a more in-depth look at the drag explosion of the 2010s.” Simon & Schuster will publish the book on June 7, 2022.

WHO WILL PAY REPARATIONS ON MY SOUL? author Jesse McCarthy is a 2022 Whiting Award winner. The selection committee writes: “Jesse McCarthy’s thought arrows through time periods, belief systems, literary movements, and aesthetics. His observations on the intersections of history, pop culture, and Black personhood roll over us like an incoming storm of gorgeous sentences. He is not afraid to stake out arguments and hold positions, but he is more interested in exploration than in polemic and wants above all to honor political and literary complexity. These are clutch-your-throat essays, revelatory, resonant, and uncompromising. Dazzling is the only word.” Liveright published the book on March 30, 2021.

ALL OUR NAMES author Dinaw Mengestu is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow for Fiction. Fellowships were awarded “to a diverse group of 180 exceptional individuals. Chosen from a rigorous application and peer review process out of almost 2500 applicants, these successful applicants were appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise.” Knopf published ALL OUR NAMES on March 4, 2014.

NOW BEACON, NOW SEA author Christopher Sorrentino is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow for General Nonfiction. Fellowships were awarded “to a diverse group of 180 exceptional individuals. Chosen from a rigorous application and peer review process out of almost 2500 applicants, these successful applicants were appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise.” Catalpult published NOW BEACON, NOW SEA on September 7, 2021.

Kirkus Reviews reviewed Rebecca Rukeyser’s anticipated debut novel THE SEAPLANE ON FINAL APPROACH. They praise: “It is a testament to the power and subtlety of Rukeyser’s writing that the novel’s violent climax, though preceded largely by a sense of quietude throughout, does not feel surprising or out of place; it is simply the result of the building social tensions and sense of desperation among the group and of a particular landscape whose compelling beauty—the author shows us—conceals dangerous potential. The obviously talented Rukeyser has crafted a vividly beautiful and odd world…[with] descriptive and imagistic prose. This darkly compelling novel promises more interesting writing to come from Rukeyser.” Doubleday will publish the novel on June 7, 2022.

Kirkus awarded Ed Yong’s forthcoming AN IMMENSE WORLD a starred review. They rave: “An ingenious account of how living organisms perceive the world... Building on Aristotle’s traditional five senses, Yong adds expert accounts of 20th-century discoveries of senses for echoes, electricity, and magnetism as well as perceptions we take for granted, including color, pain, and temperature. One of the year’s best popular natural histories.” Random House will publish the book on July 12, 2022.

The New York Review of Books wrote a rave review for Sarah Manguso’s fiction debut VERY COLD PEOPLE. Reviewer Nicole Rudick writes: “It is difficult to do a lot with a little, and Manguso, a poet as well as an essayist and memoirist, covers quite a bit of distance with a minimum of means…The very forms of Manguso’s books—fragmentary, aphoristic, discrete, or however one chooses to characterize them—resist clear narrative paths, and in doing so they can invite new possibilities...Manguso is wonderful at the slow fade of this blissful innocence, the way it is supplanted by dangers that infiltrate at the fringes of awareness.” Hogarth published the novel on February 8, 2022.

The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award announced THE PROPHETS by Robert Jones, Jr. as one of 20 debut novels to make the award’s 2022 longlist. The award “honors an outstanding debut novel published in the preceding calendar year. Symbolized by a three-dimensional compass, the award is a tribute to writers who have navigated their way through the maze of imagination and delivered a great read, taking the reader someplace new.” G.P. Putnam’s Sons published the novel on January 5, 2021.