Maggie Nelson’s ON FREEDOM is featured on The Rumpus’ Women's History Month reading list. They write: “Drawing on a vast range of material, from critical theory to pop culture to the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience, or talk about freedom in ways responsive to the conditions of our day. Her abiding interest lies in ongoing ‘practices of freedom’ by which we negotiate our interrelation with indeed, our inseparability from—others, with all the care and constraint that entails, while accepting difference and conflict as integral to our communion. For Nelson, thinking publicly through the knots in our culture from recent art-world debates to the turbulent legacies of sexual liberation, from the painful paradoxes of addiction to the lure of despair in the face of the climate crisis is itself a practice of freedom, a means of forging fortitude, courage, and company.” Graywolf Press will publish the book September 7, 2021.

EVERYTHING NOW by Rosecrans Baldwin continues to receive glowing praise. CITY OF QUARTZ author Mike Davis calls the book "a sharp, convincing work of acute observation,” while A BURGLAR’S GUIDE TO THE CITY author Geoff Manaugh praises: "Baldwin has constructed his own brilliant scenography, a book as lively as the city it describes.” Lastly, MIDDLE MEN author Jim Gavin describes the book as "brisk and graceful…EVERYTHING NOW should be handed out to everyone who gets off a plane at LAX." MCD will publish the book June 15, 2021.

NOW BEACON, NOW SEA by Christopher Sorrentino received a glowing blurb from author Jonathan A. Lethem. He writes: “In memoirs by great novelists, and NOW BEACON, NOW SEA is one, any distance between those arts shrinks, imagination and testimony lending prose the clarity of an engraving. Put this accomplishment with Roth’s Patrimony, Schwartz’s LEAVING BROOKLYN, Gornick’s FIERCE ATTACHMENTS, Conroy’s STOP-TIME, books in which the necessity of commanding trauma onto the page has galvanized the language from within.” Catapult will publish the book on September 7, 2021.

Ms. Magazine, Reader's Digest, and In the Know feature Dawnie Walton’s THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV on their must-read lists for March. Ms. Magazine calls the book an “immersive debut,” while Reader’s Digest praises it as a “debut novel [that] lands with a bang…Despite tackling big themes of sexism, race, and power, Walton’s writing positively sings.” 37 Ink Books will publish the book on March 30, 2021.

Ms. Magazine, Rumpus, Reader's Digest, and Good Morning America all feature BROTHER, SISTER, MOTHER, EXPLORER by Jamie Figueroa on must-read lists for March. Ms. Magazine calls the book a “unique and haunting debut,” while Good Morning America hails it as “[a] magical realist take on loss” and a “beautifully written novel.” Catapult published the book on March 2, 2021.

Deadline announced that production has begun for Amazon Studios’ adaptation of J.R. Moehringer’s THE TENDER BAR. The film, directed by George Clooney and adapted by Oscar-winning writer William Monahan, stars Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd. Hyperion published the book on September 1, 2005.

Sharon Stone’s memoir, THE BEAUTY OF LIVING TWICE, is the number 1 entry on O, The Oprah Magazine's list of “20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This March.” They rave: "[T]his is not your typical Hollywood autobiography. Brutally honest, restless and questing, Stone bravely grapples with her own imperfections with courage and candor." Knopf will publish the book on March 30, 2021.

Gabriela Garcia’s poignant debut novel, OF WOMEN AND SALT, continues to hit list after list in the lead-up to its publication. BookRiot and Literary Hub both included it on their literary horoscopes for the month of March (for Pisces and Cancer respectively), and it’s been named a best book of the month by GOOP, PopSugar, Entertainment Weekly, O: The Oprah Magazine, Bustle, and others. Flatiron Books will publish the novel on March 30, 2021.

Kendra Allen’s debut poetry collection, THE COLLECTION PLATE, received a glowing endorsement from HEAVY and HOW TO SLOWLY KILL YOURSELF AND OTHERS IN AMERICA author Kiese Laymon. He writes: “THE COLLECTION PLATE is as close as we can get to those looming Black spaces beyond and before language. A book shouldn't be able to do this, but Kendra Allen is a conjurer as much as she is one of the most complete writers we have ever read.” Ecco will publish the collection on July 6, 2021.

GOOP announced this week that Meg Mason’s debut novel, SORROW AND BLISS, has been selected as their March Book Club Pick. They write: “SORROW AND BLISS is a modern love story that’s funny and dark, sharp and tender, hopeful and hard to put down. It has a brooding Sally Rooney vibe (but explores a slightly older and more mature slice of life) with exceptional inner monologue and palpable chemistry among the characters.” Harper published the book on February 9, 2021.