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April 21, 2023

TAKE WHAT YOU NEED received a wonderful review from The New Republic. Reviewer Kristen Martin writes: "Novey upends familiar platitudes on our country’s divisions in an odd novel about the ways that the people and places we love can become enigmas to us, and the ineffable impulse to make art…Grappling with the mysteries we present to one another, Novey pushes back against the fairy tales we’ve told ourselves about polarizing places like Appalachia, spinning a far more artful story." Viking published the book on March 14, 2023.

April 14, 2023

The paperback edition of THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING by David Graber and David Wengrow debuted at #8 on The New York Times Bestseller list for Paperback Nonfiction for the week of April 23, 2023. The book also appeared on The New York Times’ Paperback Row, lauded as “hefty [and] irreverent.” Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the hardcover edition on November 9, 2021, and Picador published the paperback on April 4, 2023.

April 14, 2023

TAKE WHAT YOU NEED by Idra Novey is one of The Wall Street Journal's "Best Fiction for Spring 2023" picks. Viking published the book on March 14, 2023.

April 14, 2023

THE LAST ANIMAL by Ramona Ausubel received a wonderful review from Ron Charles in The Washington Post. He writes: "If you could cross Anne Tyler’s novels with strands of DNA from Michael Crichton’s thrillers, you might produce this new book by Ramona Ausubel. From a taxonomic point of view, THE LAST ANIMAL is a sweet, poignant descendant of JURASSIC PARK...The paradox that this novel confronts with such tender sympathy and humor is how to love the time we have left." Riverhead Books will publish the novel on April 18, 2023.

April 6, 2023

Anderson Cooper’s VANDERBILT is being developed as a series for Amazon Prime Video. The series will be adapted by Patrick Macmanus, who will also serve as an executive producer along with Cooper. Harper published VANDERBILT on September 21, 2021.

April 6, 2023

HOUSE OF COTTON by Monica Brashears received a rave review from The New York Times, where reviewer MJ Franklin writes: "It’s a testament to Brashears’s enchanting storytelling that the deluge of plot doesn’t overwhelm the book. Just the opposite: The cascading waves of unsettling encounters and unexplained phenomena imbue it with the thrilling energy of possibility. As the story developed, it felt like anything and everything could happen next…There is a word commonly used to describe books like this: gritty. Fair enough. HOUSE OF COTTON is unafraid to peer at the unsavory minutiae of getting by. But for this novel, I’d add a few other labels too: magnetic, singular and completely unforgettable.” HOUSE OF COTTON was also included on Book Riot's "8 Terrifyingly Claustrophobic Horror Books," Bustle's roundup of “The Most Anticipated Books of Spring & Summer 2023,” and Debutiful's roundup of "Can’t-Miss Debut Books You Should Read in April." Flatiron Books published the novel on April 4th, 2023.

April 6, 2023

Ramona Ausubel's THE LAST ANIMAL was included on The Chicago Review of Books’ "Must-Read Books of April 2023," alongside generous praise: "[A]n incredibly sharp and sweeping novel about our modern planet with an intimate emotional core…Balancing the breadth and complexity of our ailing ecosystems and the resonant humanity of a grieving family, Ausubel has crafted an unforgettable tale for our time.” Town & Country included the book on their list of "The Best Books to Read This April," and Book Riot included it in their roundup of “Exciting New Sci-Fi And Fantasy Releases Out In April 2023." Riverhead Books publishes the book on April 17, 2023.

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SKIN by Lakiesha Carr
March 31, 2023

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SKIN by Lakiesha Carr was highlighted in The New Yorker's "Briefly Noted," where it was lauded as a "powerful debut." Pantheon published the novel on February 28, 2023.

TAKE WHAT YOU NEED by Idra Novey
March 31, 2023

TAKE WHAT YOU NEED received a starred review from Shelf Awareness, who wrote, "A novel in the hands of Idra Novey is one sure to startle and subvert readers’ expectations…TAKE WHAT YOU NEED grapples with large-scale xenophobic tensions, as well as the more finely detailed ones among family. Novey has again crafted a bold and uncompromising novel from a clear-eyed point of view.” Viking published the book on March 14, 2023.

March 24, 2023

The new edition of THE BEST OF EVERYTHING by Rona Jaffe continues to receive great buzz following its publication. The New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme, who wrote the introduction of the new edition, appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered on March 16 to speak about the book’s cultural impact 65 years after its initial publication. Laurie Hertzel from Star Tribune echoes the sentiment about THE BEST OF EVERYTHING’s timelessness, praising it as a “lively, delightful, and heartbreaking novel,” adding: “THE BEST OF EVERYTHING seized the mood of the moment and told the truth, and women by the millions devoured it. Sixty-five years later, I did, too.” Penguin Classics published the new edition of THE BEST OF EVERYTHING on March 14, 2023.