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News - Literary News

bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward
December 8, 2017

Yrsa Daley-Ward, author of the poetry collection bone, is in excellent company on Dazed’s list of Black Female Poets You Need to Know. Yrsa also participated in Medium’s 2017 Words that Matter, writing about ‘energy.’ Penguin Books published bone on September 26, 2017.

NEON IN DAYLIGHT by Hermione Hoby
December 8, 2017

Refinery29 named Hermione Hoby’s debut novel NEON IN DAYLIGHT one of its Best New Books to Read this Month. Catapult will publish NEON IN DAYLIGHT on January 9, 2018.

LARGE ANIMALS by Jess Arndt
December 8, 2017

Jess Arndt’s short story collection LARGE ANIMALS is one of Entropy Magazine’s Best Fiction Books of the year. Read it Forward also named it to their list of Sensational Short Story Collections. Catapult published LARGE ANIMALS on May 9, 2017.

A HUNDRED BILLION TRILLION STARS by Seth Fishman
December 8, 2017

The Horn Book has included A HUNDRED BILLION TRILLION STARS in its 2017 Fanfare roundup and gave it a starred review. Horn said of the book that it “beautifully succeeds in its mission to convey to young readers the vastness of the numbers in our midst while reassuring them that, although each of us is one of billions of people roaming the earth today, ‘there’s only one of YOU.’" Greenwillow Books published the picture book on October 3, 2017.

CRAIG & FRED by Craig Grossi
December 6, 2017

Sgt. Craig Grossi appeared on the Today Show to promote his memoir CRAIG & FRED: A Marine, A Stray Dog, and How They Rescued Each Other. He was also recently on the Rachel Ray show. William Morrow published the book on October 31, 2017.

STICKY FINGERS by Joe Hagan
December 6, 2017

The acclaimed biography of Jann Wenner received positive reviews in The New York Times Book Review & The Guardian. Joe Hagan “swings the biographer’s baton with authority,” writes Jack Shafer in his New York Times Book Review of STICKY FINGERS, entertainingly titled “The Licentious Life and Times of Jann Wenner.”

THE RED PARTS by Maggie Nelson
December 6, 2017

David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY, named Maggie Nelson’s THE RED PARTS one of the best books of the year in THE GUARDIAN. He calls it “a harrowing but clear-eyed examination of crime’s emotional fallout.” Vintage UK published the UK edition on June 1, 2017.

THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE by Edward McPherson
December 6, 2017

Curtis Sittenfeld author of PREP and AMERICAN WIFE named Edward McPherson’s essay collection THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE one of the best books of 2017 in THE GUARDIAN. She calls it “a collection of impressively researched yet conversational essays about environmental degradation, place and time.” Coffee House Press published the book on May 2, 2017.

FRESH COMPAINT by Jeffrey Eugenides
December 6, 2017

Jeffrey Eugenides debut collection of short stories was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review. The book was also named one of the best works of fiction of 2017 by Kirkus Reviews. Farrar Straus Giroux published the book on October 3, 2017.

LESS by Andrew Sean Greer
December 6, 2017

Andrew Sean Greer’s latest book was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2017 by the The New York Times Book Review. Lee Boudreaux Books published the book on July 18, 2017.