News - Book Launches

News - Book Launches

March 15, 2024

HOT SHEET by Olga Massov and Sanaë Lemoine, enjoyed a tremendous launch this month. The book was featured on The New York Times, Eater, Food & Wine, The Washington Post, Epicurious, and many other outlets. and Boston Globe featured the cookbook on the front page of their food section. Massov and Lemoine appeared on Good Day DC to promote the book, and The Washington Post published a piece by Massov where she declares: “If I could write an ode to any piece of cookware or kitchen tool, I wouldn’t praise a fancy appliance…She’s inexpensive; she’s not showy; she’s downright homely looking. But she is mighty — and used to being underestimated and underappreciated. She is a sheet pan. I love sheet pans so much, I wrote an entire cookbook dedicated to them with my friend Sanaë Lemoine.” Harvest published HOT SHEET on March 5, 2024.

AMONG THE BROS By Max Marshall
November 9, 2023

Max Marshall’s AMONG THE BROS was excerpted in Vanity Fair and and received a positive review in The New York Times, which says “Told with journalistic integrity, a sense of humor and gruesome detail, Mikey Schmidt’s rise from try-hard to big-time drug lord is as breathtaking to witness as the ring’s takedown, in a 2016 bust that uncovers tens of millions of dollars’ worth of illegal drugs.” Harper published the hardcover November 7, 2023.

SONIC LIFE By Thurston Moore
October 31, 2023

From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author’s life and art — from his teen years as a music obsessive in small-town Connecticut, to the formation of his legendary rock group, to thirty years of creation, experimentation, and wonder. As Leah Greenblatt says, “ Think about preordering the upcoming memoir “Sonic Life,” by Thurston Moore, the rangy guitarist and alt-culture raconteur who co-founded the noise gods Sonic Youth? Literary fans like Colson Whitehead and Jonathan Lethem have already come out to praise the offhand wit and textured grit of Moore’s glimpse into a vanished world of analog art-stardom, from late-’70s happenings in the South Bronx with Jenny Holzer to touring Europe in the early ’90s with a ragtag trio of pre-“Smells Like Teen Spirit” misfits called Nirvana.” Doubleday published the hardcover October 24, 2023.

September 29, 2023

Isle McElroy’s sophomore novel PEOPLE COLLIDE published to great acclaim, with raves pouring in from all corners of the media. The Washington Post lauds the novel as “one of the year’s most compelling reads,” with The New York Times adding: “[People Collide is] a big project knocking around in a small package, portending even bigger projects ahead.” The book was also praised by NPR (“a deep exploration of marriage, love, and the ways we know one another — and don’t”), The Los Angeles Times (“a delightfully gimmicky novel about how gender is a gimmick”), and elsewhere. HarperVia published PEOPLE COLLIDE on September 26, 2023.

September 23, 2023

ASTOR is one of Apple Books’ top books for the month of September, and was featured on Entertainment Weekly’s Fall roundup: “If you can't get enough of THE GILDED AGE, this historical biography is a must-read. Anderson Cooper, himself a descendant of the Vanderbilt family, reteams with Katherine Howe for this in-depth look at a family that shaped American history…In an era where the divide between the haves and have-nots is the widest it has been in over a century, Cooper and Howe dig into one of the United States' most influential families and a parable of capitalism, commerce, and greed that established an American way of life.” Cooper also sat down with The Washington Post to discuss ASTOR, “money, power, history and the myths of the American Dream.” Cooper says: “I’m very interested in the pathology of how the fortune is made, the psychology of the person who was so invested in amassing money that they created this fortune, whether it’s Commodore Vanderbilt and certainly John Jacob Astor…It’s very easy to think of this as a story about a wealthy family and their business. And there’s a lot of that in this. But my takeaway is just sort of the human cost of all of this. As unrelatable as the life the Astors led is, there are all these very human moments and human frailties, and how that plays out under the weight of and with the benefit of all this money.” Harper published the book on September 19, 2023.

April 28, 2023

Literary Hub and Debutiful published excerpts from Tyriek White’s WE ARE A HAUNTING on its much anticipated publication day. The New York Times also featured the novel on its roundup of newly published books. Astra House published the book on April 25, 2023.

April 21, 2023

THE LAST ANIMAL by Ramona Ausubel published this week to a whirlwind of media attention. The book received a lovely review from Book Page, where reviewer Lauren Bufferd writes: "THE LAST ANIMAL whizzes around the planet—from the steppes of Siberia to the shores of Iceland to a remote alpine village—with a dizzying, almost madcap speed, but at the novel’s heart are the deep ties between mother and daughters, sister and sister, human and animal...Ausubel crafts this moving story with wit and depth, allowing readers to witness a family drawn together by both loss and a sense of wonder at an ever-changing planet.” A review from Jason Heller for NPR praises: “[THE LAST ANIMAL] soars where so many other books about family dynamics simply coast…Ausubel brings deep emotional truth to her work of dramatic fiction…THE LAST ANIMAL instantly injects Ausubel's telltale zing…Splicing wit and wisdom, THE LAST ANIMAL is a bright-eyed meditation on what animates us, biologically as well as emotionally — but most of all, familially.” A fantastic review from Meredith Maran for the LA Times raves: “Love it I did. Devour it I did. Recommend it to everyone, I do…Ausubel is a supernaturally gifted writer whose heart, soul, wit and intellect are evident in every wacky setting, character and plot line she weaves. Few authors can do what she does, seemingly effortlessly: spin saucy yet kind-spirited social satire while exploring a multitude of topical and archetypal subjects — all within a single work, all in sentences that sing…Classic Ausubel, THE LAST ANIMAL is many things. A mother-daughter love story. A global-warming warning. A fabulist fantasy. A sci-fi eco-scheme. A coming-of-age duet. A feminist critique of workplace misogyny. A study of grief…Forget everything you think you know about your reading tastes, sink into her weird world and prepare to fall in love with a 4,000-year-old baby mammoth.” The book was featured on The New York Times Book Review Shortlist, alongside glowing praise: "Sustained sorrow…underpins Ramona Ausubel’s new novel, THE LAST ANIMAL…The book also manages to be a mirthful romp of chicanery and derring-do.” Ausubel was interviewed by Jane Ciabattari for Lit Hub, who writes: “Ramona Ausubel is a master at creating distinctive young female characters…[A]n intense portrait of family dynamics that undergirds a speculative narrative that is just on the verge of real, and also filled with hope.” Meanwhile, a review by Heller McAlpin for The Christian Science Monitor praises: "A wild and woolly global escapade about unbounded scientific experimentation…[and] a hairy but cuddly beast of a novel that sheds life lessons, some heartwarming, many sticky with sentiment…Ausubel’s conclusion is clear: Nurture the earth and your dreams, but don’t forget to nurture your family.” BuzzFeed Books published an exclusive excerpt of the novel ahead of its publication, and USA Today featured the book as a "Must-Read Book of the Week." The book was also included in roundups from BookRiot, Electric Lit, and Lit Hub. Riverhead published the book on April 18, 2023.

April 21, 2023

A "WORKING LIFE" by Eileen Myles published this week to critical acclaim. The book received a wonderful review from Publishers Weekly: "With just a few words per line, [Myles'] poems move down the page quickly, the language dashed off and immediate, as though keeping pace with the poet’s mind...While at times, these poems can present as random and rapidly scribbled, there are rewards here for the readers who stick with them, revealing the joys of a life built out of thinking, dreaming, and making." Vulture featured the book on its list of “6 New Books You Should Read This April,” praising: "A ‘WORKING LIFE’ takes you where Myles feels like, for however long they feel like it, and in whichever direction. This is harder than it looks. The ease of Myles’ lines — the way words break in two to calibrate rhythm and speed, or how the number of words per line expand and single out to play around with tension — belie great skill. But the difference between poets isn’t just style; it’s personality, or one’s outlook on life. Myles’s is one of the most distinctive, and insightful." Myles was also interviewed for WNYC's "All of It with Alison Stuart." Grove Press published the book on April 18, 2023.

March 17, 2023

TAKE WHAT YOU NEED by Idra Novey received fantastic publication-week reviews from The Boston Globe (“As in the classic, unscrubbed fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, Idra Novey’s TAKE WHAT YOU NEED does not skirt gritty subjects. Concerned with characters who fall outside easily defined categories, it tackles big questions — like what qualifies as art — as well as the aching human need to be seen…With these raw materials, Novey has fashioned an insightful work of art about art”), The New York Times (“[An] impressive new novel…TAKE WHAT YOU NEED never feels like a parable. It’s a story about complicated relationships unresolved by death, about ambivalent grief. It’s very much a book for grown-ups in that there are no neat solutions to messy relationships”), The Los Angeles Times (“[An] elegiac and unsettling new novel…The best fiction can explore such dilemmas more meaningfully than a thousand think pieces. Rather than present this choice as an empty intellectual exercise about ‘tolerance,’ Novey takes readers to the limbic level, that instinctual site of emotions and stress hormones”), The Washington Post (“[S]triking…Novey’s prose [is] brisk and direct”), and The Jewish Book Council (“[A] moving, meditative novel…[A] complicated and loving portrait that readers will remember long after they’ve turned the last page”). Novey was profiled in Belt Mag, The Rumpus, and Littsburgh, and featured on the "So Many Damn Books" podcast. The novel was also included in must-read round-ups from The New York Times, The Millions, and Lit Hub. Viking published the novel on March 14, 2023.

March 3, 2023

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SKIN by Lakiesha Carr published this week to critical acclaim. The book received a fantastic review from The New York Times, where Ladee Hubbard writes: "Powerful and timely…It is a testament to Carr’s power as a writer that she is able to so clearly represent these aspects of her characters’ experiences with such intimacy and honesty. In that sense, the book is an admission of the fact that, for all the changes that have occurred in our society over the past 100 years, many Black people, both men and women, are still processing the trauma and violence caused by their body’s simultaneous hypervisibility and erasure.” AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SKIN was also featured on Lit Hub’s "11 New Books to Read Right Now," and Carr was profiled in the Houston Chronicle, which praises the book as a “graceful” debut. Pantheon published the book on February 28, 2023.