De’Shawn Charles Winslow’s DECENT PEOPLE received a great review from Humanities Tennessee’s website Chapter16: “Murder mysteries conventionally focus on a single question: Who did it? The best of the genre — such as De’Shawn Charles Winslow’s new novel DECENT PEOPLE — raise more philosophical issues. What is the value of human life? What kind of world do we live in? Is justice possible? … Despite the darkness of the subject matter, Winslow has a light touch, moving readers briskly through the novel’s kaleidoscopic events. He spices the story with period detail, apposite references to MCMILLAN & WIFE and Patty Hearst that remind us we are visiting a lost world. Winslow’s novel partakes of seedy crime and racial violence, family secrets and betrayals, romantic rivalries and hopeless loves but resolves into an essentially domestic question: Where can we find a home?” Winslow was also interviewed for Pen America's "Pen 10 Column." Bloomsbury published DECENT PEOPLE on January 17, 2023.

GIRLS AND THEIR MONSTERS, Audrey Clare Farley’s next work of nonfiction, received a rave review from Publishers Weekly. It reads: “Farley’s narrative is based in deep research and makes for her nuanced analysis of the country’s shifting attitudes toward childhood and mental health. Readers will be riveted.” Grand Central Publishing will publish GIRLS AND THEIR MONSTERS on June 13, 2023.

Alexandra Auder’s forthcoming memoir DON’T CALL ME HOME earned a place on literary tastemaker Zibby Owens’s list of the “Most Anticipated Spring and Summer Books.” Elsewhere, Publishers Weekly offered a strong review, writing: “Funny, bracing, and compulsively readable, Auder’s memoir resists juicy gossip in favor of hard-won truths. This story of fraught but unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters is a gem.” Viking will publish DON’T CALL ME HOME on May 2, 2023.

Scientific American released a great review for Jaroslav Kalfar’s next novel, A BRIEF HISTORY OF LIVING FOREVER. Amy Brady writes: “Kalfar turns an ambitious premise (a person whose body has expired but whose consciousness lives on) into a moving, frightening story about the strength of family bonds.” Little, Brown and Company will publish the novel on March 28, 2023.

Erica Berry’s WOLFISH has continued to receive critical acclaim following its publication. The Washington Post published a fantastic review of the book, with reviewer Maggie Lange praising: “Terror propels Erica Berry’s exhilarating book, WOLFISH…No matter where Berry weaves, she sniffs out fascinating insights. And she writes about it in clear, beautiful language.” Scientific American offered another strong review, where Amy Brady writes: “Berry is a skillful guide, highlighting the wolf's influence on everything from creation myths to viral memes and from government policies to proverbs.” Debutiful also published an excerpt, alongside praise: “Through this cultural criticism, Berry smashes expectations for what a book can do.” Flatiron Books published WOLFISH in the U.S. on February 21, 2023.

Antonia Angress’ debut novel SIRENS & MUSES is on the American Library Association Rainbow Round Table’s “Top 10 Book List,” which celebrates “titles that exhibit commendable literary quality and significance, authentic LGBTQIA+ content and are recommended for adults over age 18.” Ballantine Books published SIRENS & MUSES on July 12, 2022.

The mass market edition of HIGH STAKES debuted at #1 on The New York Times Mass Market bestseller list for February 2023.

Maggie Millner’s debut poetry collection COUPLETS: A LOVE STORY has enjoyed a firestorm of wonderful press since its release. A fantastic review from Kamran Javadizadeh for The New Yorker raves: “In COUPLETS, Maggie Millner uses rhyme, confession, and surprising metaphor to create a fresh portrait of desire…Millner’s ultimate achievement is to draw open the distance between the book’s first line and its ostensibly identical second, between the self that one takes as given and the self, no less true, that one cannot help but make.” The book was featured on The New York Times’ Editors’ Choice list this week, and called out by poetry editor Gregory Cowles: “If you’re on the hunt for a good book to reset your own brain, might I suggest Maggie Millner’s COUPLETS: A LOVE STORY? It’s a story of romantic attachment and romantic betrayal told almost entirely in rhymed couplets, and it’s a balancing act of such sly virtuosity that it may give you vertigo.” Meanwhile, for The New York Times Book Review, Adrienne Raphel writes: “Maggie Millner’s first book, COUPLETS, breathes new life into an old form to tell the story of a romance that catches its heroine off guard.” A review by Kristen Millares Young for The Washington Post praises: “While unmasking the ‘long and torturous’ journey that self-knowledge requires, Millner delights in the small pivots and grooves afforded by strict verse. Even the line breaks provide fractals of the fractured themes of longing, grief, hope and passion. Restless, imaginative and daring, COUPLETS advances the canon of the erotic.” Lastly, a review by Ana Cecilia Alvarez for The Los Angeles Review of Books raves: “With Millner’s well-attuned sense of metaphor, we know we are in good hands. Her verse is neat and supple…This gentle refusal of subjectivity is etched into the book’s own form: something of a novel, something of a collection of poems, and something of a memoir.” Farrar, Straus & Giroux published COUPLETS on February 7, 2023.

Erica Berry’s inaugural work of nonfiction, WOLFISH, launched in the US to great press. The Guardian ran an excerpt, with Lit Hub, The Rumpus, and AM Northwest/KATU-AM following with interviews with the author. A review from Lorraine Berry for The Star Tribune raves: “[Berry] elucidates the myths and stories we tell about our lupine fears in ferocious and beautiful writing. Like the traveling wolf in search of companionship, Berry ranges far and wide, taking readers along on her own journey — Oregon, the United Kingdom, Italy, the northern United States — in search of answers.” Elsewhere, WOLFISH received positive reviews and mentions from The Boston Globe, Slate, and more. Flatiron Books published WOLFISH in the US on February 21, 2023, and Canongate Books will publish the book on March 2, 2023.

Isle McElroy’s sophomore novel PEOPLE COLLIDE enjoyed a beautiful cover reveal from Electric Literature. The article praises: “PEOPLE COLLIDE is rich and rewarding, a tender portrayal of ambition, sacrifice, desire and loss, and shared lives and bodies. It shines a refreshing light on everything we thought we knew about love, sexuality, and the truth of who we really are.” McElroy also spoke with the outlet about the interplay between the cover art and their own artistic vision for the novel: “My editor Rakesh Satyal originally sent four cover options. I knew immediately which one I wanted. While the other options were great, this was the cover that truly embodied People Collide. The designer, Stephen Brayda, and I went through a few rounds of revisions before landing on the version seen here… Over the process of choosing a cover, I discovered something about my book that I hadn’t previously been able to articulate. The hand reaching out of the border, for instance, reveals the novel’s deeper anxiety about partnership. Even as these two figures are so intimately embraced, one hand appears to be testing out an escape. To paraphrase Newton: for every collision, there is an equal and opposite separation. It was my curiosity about this emotional space—the action and the reaction—that drove me to write PEOPLE COLLIDE.” HarperVia will publish the book on September 19, 2023.