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The Washington Post selected Chelsea Manning’s README.txt as one of the best nonfiction books of the year. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux published the memoir on October 18, 2022.

The Los Angeles Times named VERY COLD PEOPLE by Sarah Manguso one of the best books of 2022: "This unflinching first novel by poet and critic Manguso is a coming-of-age story set in a New England as icy as the title suggests. Her rendering of violence, abuse and secrecy within families and communities is clear-eyed and almost uncomfortably lyrical — the beauty of her writing makes the tragedies she describes feel all the more wrenching." Hogarth published VERY COLD PEOPLE on February 8, 2022.

Esquire named THE UNWRITTEN BOOK by Samantha Hunt one of the Best Memoirs of 2022: "Eerie, profound, and daring, this is a book only the inimitable Hunt could write.” Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the book on April 5, 2022.

Idra Novey’s forthcoming novel TAKE WHAT YOU NEED received a starred review from Kirkus. The reviewer writes: "[An] inspiring novel, spare yet packed with plot and ideas…Transforming the odd and the homely into something beautiful is both the subject and the accomplishment of this book." Viking will publish the novel on March 14, 2023.

In an interview for Vogue UK, Phoebe Bridgers gave a shout-out to THE SEAPLACE ON FINAL APPROACH by Rebecca Rukeyser when asked what book one should read over the holidays. Doubleday published the book on June 7, 2022.

Danielle Steel’s latest novel, THE WHITTIERS, debuted on The New York Times Bestsellers list for the week of December 11, 2022, appearing at #7 on Hardcover Fiction and #8 on Combined Print and E-Book Fiction. Delacorte Press published the book on November 22, 2022.

Rachel Aviv’s STRANGERS TO OURSELVES was selected as one of The New York Times’ “10 Best Books of 2022.” They praise it as a “rich and nuanced book,” adding: “[Aviv’s] personal history made her especially attuned to how stories can clarify as well as distort what a person is going through. This isn’t an anti-psychiatry book — Aviv is too aware of the specifics of any situation to succumb to anything so sweeping. What she does is hold space for empathy and uncertainty, exploring a multiplicity of stories instead of jumping at the impulse to explain them away.” Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the book on September 13, 2022.

Namwali Serpell’s THE FURROWS was selected as one of The New York Times’ “10 Best Books of 2022.” They praise: “This richly layered book explores the nature of grief, how it can stretch or compress time, reshape memories and make us dream up alternate realities.” Hogarth published the novel on September 27, 2022.

Ed Yong’s AN IMMENSE WORLD was selected as one of The New York Times’ “10 Best Books of 2022.” They praise: “Yong certainly gave himself a formidable task with this book — getting humans to step outside their ‘sensory bubble’ and consider how nonhuman animals experience the world…Yong is a terrific storyteller, and there are plenty of surprising animal facts to keep this book moving toward its profound conclusion: The breadth of this immense world should make us recognize how small we really are.” Random House published the book on June 21, 2022.

The Hollywood Reporter announced that the film adaptation of A SPY BY NATURE, the first book in Charles Cumming’s Alec Milius Spy Series, will be directed by Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald and will star NORMAL PEOPLE and AFTERSUN actor Paul Mescal. Macdonald said: “I’ve wanted to make A SPY BY NATURE for many years — and when I met Paul Mescal, with his beguiling mixture of intelligence, skill and youth, I knew I’d found the perfect star…This is a very modern spy story — sexy, dangerous, morally ambivalent — and only an actor of Paul’s talent could pull it off.” St. Martin’s Press originally published the book on July 10, 2007.