WELL-READ BLACK GIRL by Glory Edim

WELL-READ BLACK GIRL by Glory Edim

September 27, 2018

The anthology WELL-READ BLACK GIRL edited by Glory Edim, founder of Well-Read Black Girl Book Club, was named by Elle Magazine as one of the 28 Best Fall Books. Ballantine will publish the book on October 30, 2018.

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INSURRECTO by Gina Apostol

INSURRECTO by Gina Apostol

September 27, 2018

The latest novel by Gina Apostol, was named by Buzzfeed as one of the Best Books of Fall 2018. Soho Press will publish the book on November 13, 2018.

YOUR DUCK IS MY DUCK by Deborah Eisenberg

YOUR DUCK IS MY DUCK by Deborah Eisenberg

September 27, 2018

The first story collection by Deborah Eisenberg since 2006s acclaimed collection TWILIGHT OF THE SUPERHEROES was named by Vanity Fair as one of This Fall’s Best Fiction books by Vanity Fair.

HEAVY by Kiese Laymon

HEAVY by Kiese Laymon

September 27, 2018

The Boston Globe’s Ron Charles writes that Kiese Laymon’s HEAVY is “one of the most dynamic memoirs of the year… [it’s] exemplary.” Harper’s writes that Kiese Laymon’s HEAVY is “[a] tender, thorny, remarkable memoir… [Laymon] weaves a rich and elegantly colloquial self-interrogation in the service of a larger interrogation of the country he lives in.” Scribner will publish the book October 16, 2018.

OPEN ME by Lisa Locascio

OPEN ME by Lisa Locascio

September 27, 2018

Lisa Locascio’s debut novel OPEN ME is one of the New York Times Book Review’s 9 Books We Recommend This Week. Grove Atlantic published OPEN ME on August 7, 2018.

JELL-O GIRLS by Allie Rowbottom

JELL-O GIRLS by Allie Rowbottom

September 27, 2018

Allie Rowbottom’s memoir JELL-O GIRLS received a great review from the Wall Street Journal, which wrote, of the book, “A dark, disturbing story of patriarchy, oppression and sickness, alternating with a meticulously researched feminist history of the Jell-O business and its marketing campaigns directed at women.” Little, Brown published JELL-O GIRLS on July 24, 2018.

WE THE CORPORATIONS by Adam Winkler

WE THE CORPORATIONS by Adam Winkler

September 14, 2018

Adam Winkler’s latest book was named to the longlist for the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Liveright published the book on February 27, 2018.

CRUDO by Olivia Laing

CRUDO by Olivia Laing

September 14, 2018

Chris Kraus interviewed celebrated author and critic Olivia Laing for the Paris Review on the writing of her debut novel, which she praises as “a hilarious mash-up between Acker’s emotional realism and taste for transgression, and the events of Laing’s very twenty-first-century life.” The book was also reviewed in the September 17, 2018 issue of the New Yorker. The reviewer Alexandra Schwartz calls it a “funny, fervent novel.” The book was also named is a Best Book of the Fall by Buzzfeed. Norton published the book September 11, 2018.

HEAVY by Kiese Laymon

HEAVY by Kiese Laymon

September 14, 2018

Kiese Laymon’s HEAVY received a rave recommendation in the Boston Globe, which calls it “one of the most dynamic memoirs of the year.” HEAVY is forthcoming from Scribner on October 16, 2018.

EVOLUTION by Eileen Myles

EVOLUTION by Eileen Myles

September 14, 2018

Vanity Fair interviewed Eileen Myles in a feature article, “Eileen Myles Considers Instagram a Form of Poetry,” about their new book of poems, EVOLUTION. EVOLUTION was published by Grove, Atlantic on September 11, 2018.