Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s THE ONES WHO DON’T SAY THEY LOVE YOU is featured on Lit Hub’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2021.” They write: “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.

Maggie Nelson’s ON FREEDOM is on Lit Hub's “Most Anticipated Books of 2021.” They write: "Maggie Nelson is one of the most important contemporary critics and also one of our most thrilling writers in almost every genre. A new work from her is always something to look forward to, but this one sounds particularly essential, examining the complex meanings behind the concept of freedom in ‘four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate.’” Graywolf Press will publish the book on September 7, 2021.

Olivia Laing's EVERYBODY is on Lit Hub's “Most Anticipated Books of 2021.” They write: "Drawing from complicated historical figures like Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag, and Malcolm X, Laing charts the longstanding struggle of bodily autonomy, with due consideration of gay rights and sexual liberation movements, feminism, and civil rights. She also grapples with her own experiences with protest and her own approaches to alternative medicine."
W.W. Norton & Company will publish the book on May 4, 2021.

Rosencrans Baldwin’s EVERYTHING NOW is featured on The Millions’ “Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2021 Book Preview.” They write: "Baldwin’s new book charts Los Angeles’s literary canon, its landscapes, spiritual practices, history, and cuisines, and ultimately makes the argument that Los Angeles is best understood—‘functionally, aesthetically, mythologically, even technologically’—as a city-state." MCD will publish the book on June 15, 2021.

BROTHER, SISTER, MOTHER, EXPLORER by Jamie Figueroa earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly. They write: “[T]he novel brims with spellbinding prose, magical elements, and wounded, full hearted characters that nearly jump off the page…This cleverly constructed and deeply moving account enthralls." The book was also featured on The Millions’ “Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2021 Book Preview” and Electric Literature’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2021 by Women of Color.” Catapult will publish the book on March 2, 2021.

Dawnie Walton's THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV is on Elle’s “The 55 Most Anticipated Books of 2021” list, as well as The Millions’ “Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2021 Book Preview” and Lit Hub's “Most Anticipated Books of 2021.” The Millions writes: “THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV features an ambitious literary structure that is rarely seen in contemporary writing…The unique storytelling matches the depth of the theme that the novel aspires to explore: Black women who dare to tell the truth but whose voices are too often repressed." 37 Ink will publish the novel on April 20, 2021.

Gabriela Garcia’s stunning debut OF WOMEN AND SALT is on Elle’s “The 55 Most Anticipated Books of 2021” list, as well Electric Literature’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2021 by Women of Color,” Lit Hub’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2021,” and The Millions’ “Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2021 Book Preview.” Flatiron Books will publish the book on April 6, 2021.

Robert Jones, Jr.’s monumental debut novel THE PROPHETS is a featured pick for the Book of The Month Club, and the Amazon Debut Spotlight Pick. It has also been featured on the New York Times’ list of “13 Books to Watch for in January,” The Washington Post's “10 Books to Read in January,” TIME's “10 New Books You Should Read in January,” BuzzFeed’s “19 New Historical Fiction Books We Think You’re Going To Love,” Electric Literature's “27 Debuts to Look Forward to in the First Half of 2021,” and the Independent UK’s “Books to Look Out for in 2021.” Lastly, the New York Times profiled Jones Jr. before the book’s release, and in its first week of publication, Danez Smith wrote a glorious review for the New York Times Book Review. G.P. Putnam’s Sons published THE PROPHETS on January 5, 2021.

Buzz is ramping up for Gabriela Garcia’s glorious debut novel, OF WOMEN AND SALT, in advance of its April release. Named in most-anticipated lists from Cosmopolitan, the Washington Post, Barnes & Noble, Refinery29, Electric Lit, Goodreads, CNN, Literary Hub, and many more, the book was also chosen by bestselling author Roxane Gay as her June book club pick for 2021. Flatiron Books will publish the book on April 6, 2021.

The LA Times named Kate Zambreno’s DRIFTS as one of the “Best Books That Got Lost in the Noise of 2020,” writing: “The too-often underestimated Zambreno has written a novel about the wanderings of a writer’s mind — her mind — as it tries to pin down a slippery new idea and turn pinballing mental ramblings into something as concrete as a hardback book. If this sounds distant and remote, do not fear: DRIFTS is as embodied as novels come, practically vibrational as its narrator snatches her ideas out of the air and turns them into, well, DRIFTS.” Riverhead Books published the book on May 19, 2020.