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News - Literary News

December 5, 2020

Brian Doyle’s acclaimed ONE LONG RIVER will be included in the New York Times Book Review list of notable paperback releases for the week of December 6. Little, Brown and Company published the hardcover edition on December 3, 2019, and will publish the paperback edition on December 8, 2020.

December 5, 2020

The New Yorker named Namwali Serpell’s STRANGER FACES as one of “The Best Books We Read in 2020.” They write: “These stories are masterpieces of radical eroticism, but they wouldn’t have the same impact if they didn’t appear in a gorgeously varied narrative fabric, amid scenes of more wholesome love, finely sketched vistas of political unrest, haunting evocations of a damaged childhood, and moments of mundane rapture. Tenderness, violence, animosity, and compassion are the outer edges of what feels like a total map of the human condition.” Transit Books published the book on October 20, 2020.

December 5, 2020

GOLDEN GATES by Conor Dougherty is on Planetizen’s list of “The Top Urban Planning Books of 2020.” They write: “Dougherty is a terrific writer with an eye not only for the economic and political complexities of the housing crisis that has ravaged California and other high-cost areas but for the personalities that make up the YIMBY movement.” GOLDEN GATES also features on New York Magazine’s gift guide "90 Gifts for Every Type of Mom,” noting: “When we asked 23 authors about the books they’re reading to escape the present moment, writer Kevin Nguyen told us he’s found it unexpectedly soothing to read this ‘deeply reported and complete” history of the tech-related housing crisis in Northern California.’” Penguin Press published the book on February 18, 2020.

December 5, 2020

Astra Taylor, author of DEMOCRACY MAY NOT EXIST, BUT WE’LL MISS IT WHEN IT’S GONE, published an essay in the New Yorker titled “How the Biden Administration Can Free Americans from Student Debt,” and published an Op-Ed in the Guardian titled “We’re being told Biden won't be able to achieve much. We must reject that idea.” Taylor also discussed student loan forgiveness with GQ in “How a Group of Student Debtors Took on Their Banks—and Won,” and is featured in MarketWatch’s “President-elect Joe Biden has signaled he’s open to canceling student-loan debt — the question is when and how much,” as well as in two Democracy Now videos: “Astra Taylor: Biden Can Cancel Student Debt on Day One. Movements Must Make Him Do It” and “Astra Taylor: As Trump Tries to Steal Election, We Need to Reform Our ‘Deeply Undemocratic’ System.” Metropolitan Books published the book on May 7, 2019.

December 5, 2020

Rick Hasen, author of ELECTION MELTDOWN, published an Op-Ed in the New York Times titled “Trump’s Legal Farce Is Having Tragic Results.” ELECTION MELTDOWN published February 4, 2020 from Yale University Press.

December 5, 2020

Kirkus Reviews praises CROSSING THE LINE by Kareem Rosser. They write: “Rosser’s aspirational tale, though full of sorrow and hardship, is one that readers will cheer.” Kareem also sat down for an interview with Publishers Weekly, where he talks about his inspiration for the book: "You can only cover so much in a 15-minute television spot or interview, so I wanted to share the full arc of how my teammates and I gained the tools and skills necessary to compete at higher levels of polo." St. Martin’s Press will publish the book on February 9, 2021.

December 5, 2020

WHY WE BELIEVE author Agustin Fuentes joined “On Being” podcast host Krista Tippett to discuss reinventing the systems we use to organize culture — from the economy to race to work. Yale University Press published the book on September 24, 2019.

December 5, 2020

HUMANKIND by Rutger Bregman is a Washington Post pick for the best nonfiction of 2020. They write: “A Dutch historian aims to prove that human beings are, by their nature, good. Skeptics be warned, he comes with thousands of years of evidence.” Little, Brown and Company published the book on June 2, 2020.

December 5, 2020

Cathy Park Hong's memoir MINOR FEELINGS has been named as one of Times Critic's Best Books of 2020. They write: "Hong’s book wanders a variegated terrain of memoir, criticism and polemic, oscillating between smooth proclamations of certainty and twitches of self-doubt. Citing the poet Claudia Rankine and the theorist Sianne Ngai, Hong distinguishes minor feelings from the major emotions that propel typical narrative arcs and moments of revelation." The books also appeared on the Washington Posts' 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020. One World published the book on February 25, 2020.

December 5, 2020

Kiese Laymon spoke about his acclaimed revised, remixed essay collection HOW TO SLOWLY KILL YOURSELF AND OTHERS IN AMERICA with PEN America as part of their The PEN Ten weekly interview series. When asked about the differences in tone between the new edition and the original, Laymon said: “The tone of the first one was sort of like ascendant bombast with lots of voices because it was so linear. This revision is still filled with lots of voices, but the tone is much more whispery, scared, to tell you the truth. It’s a call and response book that ends on a call into the ether. So, it’s more of a plea than the first one to me.” Scribner published the book on November 10, 2020.