A new documentary film from Grammy Award-winning Beastie Boys members Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz is coming to Apple TV+. Sterogum announces: “In the past few years, [Horovitz] and [Diamond], the two surviving Beasties, have been invested in finding interesting ways to tell their own stories. Those efforts have already led to BEASTIE BOYS BOOK, one of the best music memoirs of all time. And now they’ve also teamed up with their old collaborator Spike Jonze for BEASTIE BOYS STORY, a new documentary film that involves the two Beasties telling the whole story of their friendship.” Spiegel & Grau published the book on October 30, 2018.

Vogue included PERFECT TUNES by Emily Gould on their list of books to read while you’re stuck at home. They write: “This exploration of music, motherhood, identity, and the dividing line between love and lust feels like a time capsule of post-9/11 New York, and its time jump to present-day Brooklyn will feel familiar to many readers struggling to keep families intact under less-than-ideal circumstances.” Avid Reader Press published the book on April 14, 2020.

Jessica Pearce Rotondi appeared on Zibby Owen’s Instagram Live show, #MomsDontHaveTimeToReadBooks, to discuss her forthcoming memoir WHAT WE INHERIT. Rotondi will also be doing an Instagram takeover for The Chicago Review of Books starting April 15th. Unnamed Press will publish the book on April 21, 2020.

Victoria James, partner and beverage director of COTE Korean Steakhouse in NYC, published an article in Refinery29 about supporting local businesses during quarantine by purchasing wine. “[D]rinking right now can also be a virtuous act,” says James, “one that could save a lot of small businesses from financial ruin. By drinking a bottle you purchased from your local restaurant or wine shop, you are helping these places stay afloat during the lockdown.” Ecco published James’s memoir, WINE GIRL, on March 24, 2020.

Max Barry’s PROVIDENCE earned a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly. Newsweek also featured the title on their list of must-read books for spring, referring to it as a “brain-bending adventure.” The book was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons on March 31, 2020.

People Magazine named Helen Monks Takhar’s PRECIOUS YOU a “Best New Book” in their April 6th issue. They call it “[a] hypnotic dance of obsession, gaslighting and revenge that doesn’t let up until its final unnerving reveal.” Random House published the book on March 10, 2020.

Richard Hasen, the Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, published a new piece in Slate about the possible effects of the coronavirus on the 2020 election. His latest book, ELECTION MELTDOWN, was published by Yale University Press on February 4, 2020.

Cathy Park Hong’s debut essay collection MINOR FEELINGS was named by the BBC as one of the best books of 2020 so far. One World published the book on February 25, 2020.

Conor Dougherty’s GOLDEN GATES has received glowing praise from The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal. The New Yorker calls it a “sweeping account of San Francisco’s housing crisis,” while The Wall Street Journal writes: "For a compelling and accessible overview of the state’s housing crisis, there is no better book." The book also appeared on New York Magazine’s list of books that authors are reading during self-isolation to escape the present moment. Kevin Nguyen, author of NEW WAVES, writes: “The beat-by-beat developments of California’s decades-long growth of income inequality are presented with sharp detail and an even, measured tone.” Penguin Press published the book on February 18, 2020.

Michael Zapata spoke with NOLA.com about the “gut punch disappointment” he felt following the cancellation of his book tour stop in New Orleans, which is where he lived, taught, and wrote for many years. The “unreal Shakespearean city” provided inspiration for his debut novel, THE LOST BOOK OF ADANA MOREAU, a time- and genre-defying story about a 1920s Dominican sci-fi writer whose lost manuscript finds its way, decades later, into the hands of a Jewish-Italian hotel clerk in Chicago. Hanover Square Press published the book on February 4, 2020.