News - Literary News

News - Literary News

May 7, 2021

Cathy Park Hong’s award-winning essay collection MINOR FEELINGS has spent 6 weeks on the Top 10 of The New York Times bestsellers list for paperback nonfiction, and landed the #1 spot on The Los Angeles bestsellers list in the same category. Hong also appeared on The New York Times podcast Still Processing to discuss MINOR FEELINGS, as well as “the usefulness of rage, and her experience of speaking for — and listening to — the Asian-American community.” One World published the hardcover edition on February 25, 2020, and the paperback edition on March 2, 2021.

May 7, 2021

Margaret Kimball's AND NOW I SPILL THE FAMILY SECRETS is Belletrist's book club pick for May 2021, praised as “funny, poignant, and deeply inspiring in its portrayal of what drives a family apart and what keeps them together.” This is the first time Belletrist, founded by actress Emma Roberts and her best friend Kara Preiss, has selected a graphic memoir. The book will be promoted through their weekly e-newsletter and various social media platforms. HarperOne published the book on April 20, 2021.

May 7, 2021

An excerpt from Vince Granata's memoir EVERYTHING IS FINE was featured in Rolling Stone, recounting the author's first visit to his brother after their mother's death. Atria Books published the memoir on April 27, 2021.

May 7, 2021

Joss Lake's FUTURE FEELING has been named an Indie Next pick for June 2021. Bookseller Nikki Siclare of Newtonville Books in Newton Centre, MA says: "I loved this novel about trans queer belonging, found families, and our need to be connected and understood no matter how advanced we become. Also — succulents and witchcraft!” The book was also named one of Bustle's "Best Debut Books of Spring & Summer 2021," and both BuzzFeed and LGBTQ Reads highlighted it as a title to celebrate on the Trans Day of Visibility. Soft Skull will publish the book on June 1, 2021.

May 7, 2021

Jonathan Parks-Ramage’s YES, DADDY was featured on Bustle’s “51 Debut Books To Look Forward To This Spring & Summer.” They rave that "Parks-Ramage’s debut novel is a queer gothic thriller you can’t afford to miss." Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will publish the novel on May 18, 2021.

May 7, 2021

RED DRESS IN BLACK AND WHITE by Elliot Ackerman was featured in The New York Times' Paperback Row. They write: "In this 'superbly written,' 'entirely absorbing' novel set amid the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, the unstable marriage of a debt-ridden Turkish real estate developer and an American art patron mirrors 'a whole country’s instability,' our reviewer, Joan Silber, observed, as well as the 'web of interests and counterinterests' in which the country is embroiled." Knopf published the hardcover edition on May 26, 2020, and the paperback edition on April 27, 2021.

April 30, 2021

Sharon Stone appeared on The View to discuss her remarkable memoir, THE BEAUTY OF LIVING TWICE. Stone said: “I think once you have a giant trauma in your life – in my case, it was a brain hemorrhage and a stroke, but I think it’s the same for anyone, if it’s cancer, if it’s a heart attack, if it’s even losing your job or going through a big divorce, or just any kind of big crisis – I think when your life changes so dramatically, you have to reassess everything, and that don’t sweat the small stuff is very, very true, and I think you really learn to prioritize your life.” Knopf published the book on March 30, 2021.

April 30, 2021

2034 by Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis was mentioned in Thomas Friedman’s NYT Op-Ed “Is There a War Coming Between China and the U.S.?” Friedman writes: “If you’re looking for a compelling beach read this summer, I recommend the novel 2034 by James Stavridis, a retired admiral, and Elliot Ackerman, a former Marine and intelligence officer…What made the book unnerving…was that when I’d put it down and pick up the day’s newspaper I’d read much of what it was predicting for 13 years from now.” Penguin Press published 2034 on March 9, 2021.

April 30, 2021

Publishers Weekly interviewed Matt Bell about his upcoming novel, APPLESEED. When asked about how fiction fits into the larger conversation about climate change, Bell said: “Fiction is good at imagining other ways of being—other futures, other possibilities, choices we might make. I was interested in the way that the choices we have to confront climate change narrow as we go forward without doing anything—or not doing enough.” Custom House published the book on July 13, 2021.

April 30, 2021

Georgia Clark’s next novel, IT HAD TO BE YOU, has been chosen as FabFitFun’s Summer Book Club pick. The book will be featured in FFF’s printed magazine, and Clark will be providing exclusive content and interviews to subscribers. The book has also hit best-of lists from PureWow, The Pioneer Woman, BuzzFeed Books, and Frolic Media. Emily Bestler Books will publish the book on May 4, 2021.