Historian Audrey Clare Farley’s THE UNFIT HEIRESS: THE TRAGIC LIFE AND SCANDALOUS STERILIZATION OF ANN COOPER HEWITT has received a starred review from Booklist. The reviewer writes: “This book is as timely as ever...A gripping tale about the atrocity of systematic reproductive control.” Grand Central Publishing will publish the book on April 20, 2021.

THE FUTURES and NECESSARY PEOPLE author Anna Pitoniak’s next novel, OUR AMERICAN FRIEND, has received a wonderful endorsement from New York Times bestselling THE AVIATOR'S WIFE and THE CHILDREN'S BLIZZARD author Melanie Benjamin. She raves: “This should be catnip to political thriller fans…[a] smart, witty take on a fictional, foreign-born First Lady with a secret tied to Cold War espionage who tests the boundaries of friendship with her would-be biographer. This fast-paced novel about love, loyalty, and the secrets we should or should not keep will keep you gobbling up each page.” Simon & Schuster will publish the novel in January 2022.

THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV by Dawnie Walton is featured on Parade’s list of
Parade's list of "25 New Books Written by Women of Color We Can’t Wait to Read This Year,” as well as Marie Clare’s "35 Must-Read 2021 Book Releases by Black Authors." 37 Ink Books will publish the book on March 30, 2021.

EVERYTHING NOW by Rosecrans Baldwin received a glowing blurb from MEAN author Myriam Gurba. She writes: "Los Angeles invites extreme forms of correspondence, love letters and hate mail, and Rosecrans Baldwin’s EVERYTHING NOW is a lush amalgam of both. In beautiful and concise prose, he maps a sun-drenched geography that we love to hate and hate to love. With this book, Baldwin cements his status as one of California’s finest literary cartographers." William Deverell, Director of Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West also praises the novel: "All the research, all the thinking and wandering and interviewing that Baldwin did to get head and heart, arms and eyes around greater Los Angeles sits barely beyond the sightlines of the beautiful storytelling, the unpacking of myth and memory, the narrative wrestling match with a place that has crushed so many other would-be interpreters. Rosecrans Baldwin tackles a city-state’s sprawling past and present across great chunks of chronology and culture, and does it with grace and imagination. This book is a revelation.” MCD will publish the book on June 15, 2021.

MINOR FEELINGS by Cathy Hong Park is a finalist for the 2021 Audie Awards in the Short Stories/Collections Category. The winners will be announced at the Audie Awards Gala, which will stream live on March 22, 2021 at 9pm EST. One World published the hardcover edition of MINOR FEELINGS on February 25, 2020, and will publish the paperback on March 2, 2021.

The San Francisco Book Review published a rave review of Kiese Laymon’s HOW TO SLOWLY KILL YOURSELF AND OTHERS IN AMERICA. They write: “Laymon’s collection of essays reaches the pinnacle of truth-telling that only essayists with this author’s candor and depth can achieve. Most of us don’t deserve the honesty that Laymon serves on the page, but it’s what the reader receives: plain truth, often painful, thoroughly unvarnished. Laymon engages the reader intellectually about collective pain emanating from various streams of violence against Black life: systemic, structural, and interpersonal. More importantly, his prose evokes a visceral reaction: one that inspires empathy, underscoring great love for humanity.” Scribner published the book on November 10, 2020.

THE PROPHETS by Robert Jones Jr. was featured in the Irish Times. Ruth McKee raves: "[THE PROPHETS] is an intimate portrayal of the relationship between the two men, written in language that is sumptuous, lyrical but with sharp teeth. It is a sweeping story, encompassing interconnected lives on the plantation, from kitchen maid to preacher, but it’s also interior, visionary and searching. Unflinching and brutal at times, it pays homage to the revelatory power of love. The writing is heir to James Baldwin and Toni Morrison and bears witness to the heritage of queer black men; the story has always been there, but is told now for perhaps the first time, in voices that sing, deep as a well." G.P. Putnam’s Sons published the book on January 5, 2021.

Conor Dougherty’s latest piece for The New York Times, “The Californians Are Coming. So Is Their Housing Crisis,” previews some of the ideas in his new preface to GOLDEN GATES. He writes: “The action might be local, but the message should carry nationwide: The only way to solve the housing crisis is to address it in every city it visits. Otherwise we’re just spreading it around.” Penguin Press published the hardcover on February 18, 2020, and published the paperback edition with the new preface on February 16, 2021.

Brian Muraresku’s THE IMMORTALITY KEY is the focus of a 13-minute animated video titled “The Best-Kept Secret in History,” created by the popular YouTube channel After Skool. The video currently has 250,000+ views. St. Martin’s Press published the book on September 29, 2020.

CROSSING THE LINE author Kareem Rosser joined TODAY’s Sheinelle Jones to talk about how the “Work to Ride” program at Fairmount Park in Philadelphia led to his becoming a polo star. He also discussed his memoir with Joe Donahue on WAMC’s Roundtable and with CBS News' Jeff Glor. St. Martin’s Press published the book on February 9, 2021.