Former New Yorker staff writer and investigative reporter Becky Cooper’s true crime masterpiece, WE KEEP THE DEAD CLOSE, has earned fantastic blurbs in the lead-up to its fall publication. Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow calls it “[a] stunning achievement,” declaring that “this stirring narrative, with its heart-stopping finale, forces us to ponder the very nature of historical truth.” Meanwhile, Jeff Guinn, bestselling biographer of Charles Manson and Jim Jones, had this to say: “For decades, the acknowledged Big Three among True Crime books have been IN COLD BLOOD by Truman Capote, HELTER SKELTER by Vincent Bugliosi and THE EXECUTIONER’S SONG by Norman Mailer. Now it's the Big Four, because Becky Cooper's WE KEEP THE DEAD CLOSE deserves inclusion in this exalted company.” Grand Central Publishing will publish the book on November 10, 2020.

Literary Hub selected Tara Isabella Burton’s STRANGE RITES for their list of “9 New Books to Read in June.” VOL. 1 BROOKLYN also featured the book in their “June 2020 Book Preview,” and write: “There are few writers working today who are better at chronicling the overlap of culture and religion than Tara Isabella Burton. Her new book STRANGE RITES brings a panoply of belief systems and devotions together into one place, showcasing the numerous ways in which people have utilized faith and belief to make sense of the contemporary world.” PublicAffairs published the book on June 16, 2020.

Book Riot selected MINOR FEELINGS by Cathy Park Hong as part of their “10 Under 10” list, which includes their ten favorite audiobooks under ten hours. They call the essays “illuminating and rigorous,” noting Hong’s “crisp and precise” narration. Additionally, Real Simple and Rutgers University both recommend MINOR FEELINGS for their lists of must-read books about race. Rutgers calls it an “anti-racist manifesto [with] unflinching assessments of quotidian, startlingly normalized racist violence that characterizes the United States.” Teen Vogue also included the book in their list of “13 Books by Asian and Pacific Islanders That Should be Required Reading.” One World published the book on February 25, 2020.

De’Shawn Charles Winslow’s IN WEST MILLS is a June 2020 Indie Next List “Now in Paperback” selection. Bloomsbury originally published the book on June 4, 2019, and published the paperback edition on June 16, 2020.

In their piece about BEA's virtual events, the New York Times highlighted one of the most powerful moments of the expo—Sally Kim, editor-in-chief of Putnam, showing Robert Jones, Jr. a mock-up of his debut novel, THE PROPHETS. They state: "Jones's emotional reaction, seen intimately up close in his home office, would likely not have been as powerful in the hangar-like Javits Center." G.P. Putnam’s Sons will publish the book on January 5, 2021.

Hannah Orenstein’s next rom-com, HEAD OVER HEELS, has made summer reading round-ups from O, The Oprah Magazine, PopSugar, Bustle, and Goodreads, among others. Atria Books will publish the book on June 23, 2020.

FEEL BETTER IN 5 by Dr. Rangan Chatterjee sold more than 10,000 copies in 24 hours in the UK—the largest Kindle Daily Deal sale ever for Penguin Random House UK. BenBella Books will publish the U.S. edition on September 1, 2020.

Larry Watson’s THE LIVES OF EDIE PRITCHARD is one of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s “71 Books for Summer Reading in 2020”. Algonquin Books will publish the book on July 21, 2020.

Wayne Koestenbaum was interviewed by Sasha Frere-Jones for Bookforum. He describes Koestenbaum’s FIGURE IT OUT as “a manual for maintaining curiosity and highlighting ‘scrutinized acts,’” adding that “[t]asting a word, inhaling a disagreement, melting syntax – these are skills you can learn from Wayne.” Soft Skull Press published the book on May 5, 2020.

The Washington Post describes Elliot Ackerman’s RED DRESS IN BLACK AND WHITE as “shrewd [and] intricately plotted,” while the Associated Press calls it “a tense tale from Turkey . . . [that] is taut, balanced between order and chaos, just like Istanbul in that summer of 2013.” Additionally, the novel is a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selection this week. They write: “Ackerman’s fourth novel abandons his customary war narratives for a different sort of drama, an entirely absorbing territory of intrigue and tricks.” Knopf published the book on May 26, 2020.