EVERYTHING NOW by Rosecrans Baldwin was featured in Alta Magazine's “13 New Books for June.” They write: “Baldwin offers an amalgam of voices in the form of stories, conversations, and reflections that add up to a spectacular collage portrait of Los Angeles. The result is a daring and innovative excavation of the City of Angels as 'the Great American City-State.'” MCD will publish the book on June 15, 2021.

Dawnie Walton's debut novel THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV was included in the Daily Beast's round-up of best summer reads. They hail it as a "showstopper,” noting: “Unsparing and raw in its exploration of the personal and political complications these characters face, the novel explodes with color, style, and music as it explores the challenges of love and art, racism and gender inequality in a story that doesn’t leave a single note out of place.” 37 Ink published the novel on March 30, 2021.

Electric Literature interviewed Olivia Laing about her critically acclaimed essay collection, EVERYBODY. They rave: “EVERBODY is both timely and attentive to the long roots of history, both complex and accessible, as well as lyrical and instructive. Armed with a wellspring of research that spans 20th-century Germany, Britain, and the United States, from philosophy to psychology, art, medicine, and activism, Laing cuts a path through the difficult business of our bodily lives. Her writing is as incisive as ever, and alive to the intricate, often messy and traumatic, realities of being a human in this fragile and fluctuating vessel through which life takes shape.” W.W. Norton & Company published the book on May 4, 2021.

Lucy Ives's forthcoming, "very cool-sounding novel” LIFE IS EVERYWHERE received a special mention from Lit Hub, where her editor Yuka Igarashi shares her excitement at making the book her first acquisition at Graywolf Press. Igarashi told Lit Hub: "We get to see Lucy’s outrageous wit, emotional precision, and sheer storytelling charisma working on an epic scale. I think this book proposes a new kind of ‘systems novel.’ It’s about how individual selves act, and are acted upon, inside various systems—family, marriage, academia, gender, society—but it also reveals the instability of our notions of selves and of systems, and shows a new way to narrate the relationship between the two. Plus it’s just very fun to read, since it includes things like the history of botulism, a fragment of sculpture with mysterious powers, stolen artifacts, secret identities, and academic scandal.” Graywolf Press will publish LIFE IS EVERYWHERE in Fall 2022.

PHALLACY author Emily Willingham joined FATHER FIGURE author Jordan Shapiro on the Ologies with Alie Ward podcast to discuss sex, gender, and feminism. Avery published PHALLACY on September 22, 2020.

Rosecrans Baldwin’s EVERYTHING NOW was featured on Vulture’s list of “35 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Summer.” They write: “[Baldwin] manages to define, and, perhaps, redefine, the most undefinable of cities with a fresh and sometimes startling inquisitiveness. Ambitious in a way that seems to mirror L.A.’s sprawl, the story is told through a series of vignettes, combining deft on-the-ground reporting, hazy personal memories, and snippets of overheard conversations that read, appropriately, like film scripts." MCD will publish the book on June 15, 2021.

Maurice Carlos Ruffin's forthcoming novel THE ONES WHO DON’T SAY THEY LOVE YOU was featured on the Observer’s list of “Best New Summer Reads.” They call the book “vibrant…deeply empathetic and achingly winning,” noting that “[t]his glimpse into New Orleans beyond Bourbon Street reminds you how books sometimes offer a deeper experience of a place than passive tourism.” One World will publish the book on August 17, 2021.

Sunjeev Sahota was profiled by Publishers Weekly about his latest novel, CHINA ROOM. Sahota told the interviewer that the novel is “very much alive to questions of authorship, and storytelling, and the rights and wrongs of who gets to tell the story…If I look at my three novels, the thing that seems to connect them, to me – and this wasn’t obvious to me before – is ideas of freedom, ideas of connection, ideas of trying to find the place you call home.” Publishers Weekly also gave the novel a glowing review, noting that it is “engaging” and “well worth the time.” Viking will publish the novel on July 13, 2021.

Dawnie Walton joined Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air podcast to discuss her electrifying debut novel, THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV. 37 Ink published the novel on March 30, 2021.

Tara Parker-Pope shared UNWINDING ANXIETY author Judson Brewer’s five-finger breathing exercise for Day 6 of The New York Times’s “Fresh Start Challenge.” She writes: “Dr. Brewer, who is also a neuroscientist, says it’s important to remember that your brain is like a computer, and it has only a certain amount of working memory. Anxiety, worry and other negative emotions can take over, giving your brain less room for other tasks that require thinking and problem solving... Dr. Brewer suggests five-finger breathing because it’s a multisensory task.” Avery published UNWINDING ANXIETY on March 9, 2021.