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News - Literary News

July 9, 2021

ON FREEDOM by Maggie Nelson was featured on Lit Hub’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2021, Part Two.” They write: “Maggie Nelson is an expert at distilling whatever topic she tackles into crystalline prose. She is the queen of the effortless jumping off point, catapulting her readers into the far reaches of Big Questions. In BLUETS, it was love and suffering filtered through the color blue. In THE ARGONAUTS, she gave us the story of a pregnancy that branched out into an exploration of identity, caretaking, and family. Now, as the title suggests, she has turned her attention to freedom. What is it? Who has it? And, more specifically, how does it relate to art, sex, drugs, and climate?” Graywolf Press will publish the book September 7, 2021.

July 9, 2021

EVERYTHING NOW by Rosecrans Baldwin is a Los Angeles Times bestseller its second week in a row, this time appearing at number 3 in Hardcover Nonfiction. MCD published the book on June 15, 2021.

July 9, 2021

NOW BEACON, NOW SEA by Christopher Sorrentino was featured on Lit Hub’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2021, Part Two.” They write: "The only thing harder than grappling with an increasingly distant and difficult parent is coming to terms with losing that parent…As he grieves, so too does Sorrentino come to understand the messiness of any given life, and how hard it can be to understand those we love the most." Catapult will publish the memoir on September 7, 2021.

July 9, 2021

THE SWANK HOTEL by Lucy Corin was featured on Lit Hub’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2021, Part Two.” They write: “At long last, a new book from Lucy Corin, whose writing never fails to be uncanny and diamond sharp and deeply moving when you least expect it. Graywolf describes this novel, which is set during the 2008 financial crisis, as an ‘acrobatic, unforgettable, surreal, and unexpectedly comic novel that interrogates the illusory dream of stability that pervaded early twenty-first-century America.’ Yep, sounds like Corin, and I can’t wait to get my hands on it.” Graywolf Press will publish the novel on October 5, 2021.

July 9, 2021

YES, DADDY by Jonathan Parks-Ramage was featured on Strand Book Store's “30 to Watch” list of “the most exciting authors [they’re] keeping [their] eyes on.” Mariner Books published the novel on May 18, 2021.

July 9, 2021

THE PROPHETS by Robert Jones Jr. was featured on Strand Book Store's “30 to Watch” list of “the most exciting authors [they’re] keeping [their] eyes on.” G.P. Putnam’s Sons published the novel on January 5, 2021.

July 9, 2021

SECOND THOUGHTS author Lynn Berger joined the No Guilt Mom podcast to discuss with hosts JoAnn and Brie “their own experiences both as children with siblings and with their own children and the guilt that we face trying to give each child what feels like is never enough time.” Henry Holt and Co. published SECOND THOUGHTS on April 20, 2021.

July 9, 2021

Poet Reginald Dwayne Betts chose LONG DIVISION by Kiese Laymon as his summer reading “bookshelf” pick for Politico. He writes: “The cover is vibrant and funky, and the sentences match the book’s beauty." Scribner published the novel on June 1, 2021.

July 9, 2021

Stacey Abrams, voting rights activist and former Georgia state representative, chose THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV by Dawnie Walton as her summer reading “bookshelf” pick for Politico. She writes: "The fictionalized 'true story' of a defunct rock band as told to a rising reporter sounds riveting. Walton’s story tackles complicated issues of race and success using music as its crucible—and the fractious 1970s as a galvanizing point." 37 Ink published the novel on March 30, 2021.

July 9, 2021

THE ONES WHO DON'T SAY THEY LOVE YOU by Maurice Carlos Ruffin was featured on Lit Hub’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2021, Part Two.” They write: “Maurice Carlos Ruffin follows up on his darkly provocative, critically acclaimed debut novel, WE CAST A SHADOW, with this collection of stories set in and around his native New Orleans. The characters in Ruffin’s stories struggle, in their various ways, to navigate the depths of a great American city too often mythologized for its flamboyant surfaces.” One World will publish the book on August 17, 2021.