Seth Fishman's BAD DRAWER is the Arkansas Diamond Book Award’s Third Place Winner for 2024 - 2025. The award will be formally presented by the Arkansas Literacy Association at Harding University in July 2026. The book was published by Penguin Workshop on October 25, 2022.

THIS STORY MIGHT SAVE YOUR LIFE debuted on The New York Times Bestsellers list for the week of March 29, 2026, appearing at #13 on the Hardcover Fiction list. Flatiron Books published the novel on March 10, 2026.

Fred Brathwaite – aka Fab 5 Freddy – sat down with Vogue’s Corey Seymour to discuss EVERYBODY’s FLY and hip-hop culture. Seymour calls the memoir “a fascinating and page-turning chronicle of a righteous life lived at a grand scale.” Brathwaite also began his book tour this week. Viking published the book on March 10, 2026.

A starred review from Kirkus calls EVERYBODY’S FLY “a fine snapshot of a pivotal moment for street—and American—culture” and “[a] rich, gritty remembrance of an artist’s journey.” Additionally, an excerpt of EVERYBODY’S FLY published in Vanity Fair this week. Viking will publish the book on March 10, 2026.

Publishers Weekly calls Miguel Sancho’s EVIDENCE OF THE EXTRAORDINARY: DISCOVERIES FROM THE SERIES THE PROOF IS OUT THERE “a brisk, earnest survey of anomalous and mysterious occurrences,” and “a diverting must-read for those who want to believe.” Atria will publish the book on May 5, 2026.

Susanna Kwan’s debut novel AWAKE IN THE FLOATING CITY is one of three finalists for the 2026 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel. In a statement, 2026 judges Rachel Beanland, Dionne Irving, and Taymour Soomro said: “While these books are very different from one another, they each in their own way speak to loneliness and grief and this sense that, in the midst of so much chaos and loss, we are wired to keep going and to strive for connection and meaning. These books approached some heavy subjects—death, displacement, and even heartbreak—with honesty, humility and humor, and in reading them, we felt cracked open and also maybe, in some small way, hopeful.” The winner will be announced in early April, and all three finalists will be honored on April 26 at the 50th Anniversary PEN/Hemingway Award Ceremony. Pantheon published AWAKE IN THE FLOATING CITY on May 13, 2025.

Melissa Faliveno’s acclaimed debut novel, HEMLOCK, was the Harper’s Bazaar Book Chat pick for January. Harper’s published an excerpt of the lively conversation on the magazine’s all-staff Slack channel discussing the book. Entertaining comments include: “I’m a sucker for an unreliable narrator. I like my protagonists messy” and “The doe sent me. Just chewing and judging.” Little, Brown published HEMLOCK on January 20, 2026.

Fab 5 Freddy and EVERYBODY'S FLY: A LIFE OF ART, MUSIC, AND CHANGING THE CULTURE were featured in The New Yorker. David Kamp praises the memoir as “an exuberant recounting of how a culturally omnivorous kid from Brooklyn willed himself into the wider, shinier world." Viking will publish the book on March 10, 2026.

Eugene Lim is the winner of the 2025 John Dos Passos Prize, the oldest literary award given by a Virginia college or university, which honors “a talented American writer who experiments with form, explores a range of voices and merits further recognition.” Dr. David Magill, chair of the Department of English and Modern Languages at Longwood, said: “Eugene Lim’s work is completely unique in its formal innovations and its elegant yet accessible prose…Lim manages to pack so much into every page, taking us on a wild journey of adventure with each sentence. He is breathtakingly original and a writer not to be missed.” Coffee House Press published Lim’s most recent novel, SEARCH HISTORY, on October 5, 2021. His next novel, SPACE BAR, will be published by Doubleday in 2027.

New York Times bestselling author Rachel Khong’s long-awaited short story collection, MY DEAR YOU, is already earning great press, appearing on most-anticipated lists from TIME, Lit Hub, Book Riot, TODAY.com, and more. TIME’s praise reads in part: “[Khong] confidently kneads and molds the short-story form, stretching it like taffy.” Knopf will publish MY DEAR YOU on April 7, 2026.