Alina Adams’s gorgeous and nuanced debut, THE NESTING DOLLS, received a glowing review from Booklist. They write: “Adams’ sweeping tale offers captivating explorations of her characters and their complexities, particularly when it comes to their struggles between the pull of the heart and the realities in which they live.” Harper will publish the book on July 14, 2020.

Peter Marks, theatre critic for the Washington Post, is surviving theatre deprivation by reading Andrew McConnell Scott’s WHAT BLEST GENIUS. Marks writes: “Stott, an English professor at the University of Southern California, takes us to Shakespeare’s birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon, in 1769, where the celebrated actor David Garrick staged a lavish multiday publicity event to fete the playwright who made him famous. The whole thing was a bit of debacle, as Stott’s witty account reveals. But it was also the turning point for the world’s wholehearted embrace of theater’s greatest writer.” W.W. Norton & Company published the book on April 2, 2019.

Kate Zambreno’s forthcoming novel DRIFTS has already received enthusiastic praise. BookPage says the novel is “full of brilliant critical observations and realistic depictions of the dramas in a modern artist’s daily life,” while The New Republic calls it “unexpectedly relatable” and a “portrayal of stasis, indecision, and the difficulty of living in a civilization that seems to have passed its expiration date.” Riverhead Books published the book on May 19, 2020.

Max Barry’s Providence received a glowing review from Book and Film Globe. They write: “[H]idden [within the novel] are the deeper questions of free will, and how much agency any human being is going to have in an age of machines that think faster than we do. In all his books, Barry examines how our creations–corporations, language, machines, and software–rebuild us after we’ve built them.” Additionally, the audio edition of PROVIDENCE was selected as an April Must-Listen book by Apple Books. G.P. Putnam’s Sons published the book on March 31, 2020.

The New York Times Book Review named QUOTIENTS by Tracy O’Neill a “New & Noteworthy” book of interest, calling it a “stylish, impressive novel.” Soho Press published the book on May 12, 2020.

Jessica Pearce Rotondi’s WHAT WE INHERIT received an excellent review from The Boston Globe. They write: “Rotondi deftly moves between the personal and the historical,” and call the book “a sensitive and searching examination of the ways loss and trauma live on through generations.” Unnamed Press published the book on April 21, 2020.

Mary Pauline Lowry’s THE ROXY LETTERS received a fantastic review from PureWow last week. They praise the novel as a “worthwhile escapist read,” commending its “highly memorable cast of characters” and “fast-paced, laugh-out-loud scenes.” Simon & Schuster published the book on April 7, 2020.

The Tablet calls Benjamin R. Teitelbaum’s WAR FOR ETERNITY, which is an inside look at Steve Bannon's entourage of global power brokers, an “alarming book, with a terrible, pertinent relevance,” adding that “this author has produced a book to make us tremble.” Dey Street Books published the book on April 21, 2020.

Stephanie Thornton Plymale’s memoir AMERICAN DAUGHTER was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review. Mary Beth Keane writes: “[Thornton Plymale’s] lineage . . . represents a sort of inverse American dream . . . It’s a story of redemption and forgiveness.” River Grove Books published the book on February 3, 2020.

Wayne Koestenbaum’s latest collection of essays received a rave review from the New York Times. They write: “Whatever [Koestenbaum’s] subject—favorites include porn, punctuation and the poetry of Frank O’Hara—the goal is always to jigger logic and language free of its moorings . . . His great and singular appeal is this fealty to his own desire and imagination.” Soft Skull Press published the book on May 5, 2020.