J&N Clients Justin Driver, Angela Garcia, Richard Hasen, Lucy Ives, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, and Namwali Serpell have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships. “Our new class of Guggenheim Fellows is representative of the world’s best thinkers, innovators, and creators in art, science, and scholarship,” said Edward Hirsch, award-winning poet and President of the Guggenheim Foundation. “As the Foundation enters its second century and looks to the future, I feel confident that this new class of 223 individuals will do bold and inspiring work, undaunted by the challenges ahead. We are honored to support their visionary contributions.”

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Stephanie Wambugu's debut novel LONELY CROWDS is the winner of the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, a finalist for the Young Lion's Fiction Award, and was longlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Stephanie was also named a National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35” honoree. Little, Brown, and Company published LONELY CROWDS on July 29, 2025.

Addie Citchens' DOMINION was selected as a finalist for the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction. The citation reads: "While this year’s shortlist spans an incredible breadth of themes, geographies, time periods, and literary styles, the six shortlisted novels each interrogate the roles women play in society and the power they hold, and explore themes of agency, human connection, and the joy of literature, centring very different, but unforgettable, protagonists." The winner will be announced on June 11 at the Women’s Prize Trust’s summer party in London. Farrar, Straus and Giroux published DOMINONS on August 19, 2025.

Julia Elliott's story collection HELLIONS was named a finalist for the Carole Shields Prize for Fiction. The winner of the prize will receive $150,000 USD and a five-night stay at Fogo Island Inn, while the four finalists will each receive $12,500 USD. The jury’s citation for HELLIONS reads: “This eerie, eclectic, genre-leaping collection takes no half-measures; every sentence of HELLIONS crackles or crawls. Here, human folly moves against a backdrop of horror and magic. There’s folklore in these stories, and Southern gothic horror, and surrealism, and fantasy, and, at their center, a thread of uneasy, bodily realism. The work evokes writers like Angela Carter, Dorothy Allison, Gloria Naylor, and Kelly Link. But for all its wildness, there is tremendous control; Elliot is a gifted and thrilling writer.” The winner will be announced on June 2 at a ceremony in Toronto. Tin House published HELLIONS on April 15, 2025.

People Magazine shared an excluive look at Dustin Hoffman's forthcoming memoir, LOOK AT ME, along with an exciting cover reveal. Jonathan Karp of Simon & Schuster told People: "LOOK AT ME has the same qualities so many of us have enjoyed in Dustin Hoffman's films. It is full of artistry, passion, character and wit.” Scribner will publish the memoir on November 10, 2026.

METROPOLITANS debuted on The New York Times Bestseller list for the week of April 19, 2026, appearing at #11 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list. Astra House published the book on March 31, 2026.

Lisa Lee's debut novel AMERICAN HAN is enjoying a fantastic launch. In a starred review, Kirkus says, "Lee's self-aware, relentlessly honest narrator feels absolutely real, and her story cuts deep." Joumana Khatib at The New York Times Book Review has this positively glowing praise: "I am Tom Cruise-on-Oprah's-couch crazy about 'American Han,' . . . one of the best things I've read in ages. . .I realize that describing a novel as having a soulful yet screwball sensibility sounds close to incase, but it's the truth; 'American Han' has a fierce emotional intelligence that also feels hard-won." Meanwhile, BookPage writes, "Lisa Lee's debut [is] a powerfully complex, moving take on one family's answer." The novel is a Most Anticipated Book for Spring 2026 by Harpers Bazaar, who calls it a "compelling character study of a deeply flawed family." It was also chosen by Goodreads Editors for their March Book Picks and was featured on The New York Times Books' Instagram in a post where it was a "Lightning Round" recommendation. In addition, Ron Charles gives a thoughtful and positive review on his Substack ("What looks initially like another story of immigrant striving turns out to be something more unsettling — a family struggling with pain that only one of them can articulate") and Kate Tuttle mentions the novel in the Boston Globe ([American Han] thrums with intelligence and heart as [Lee] chronicles the unruly lives of a Korean American family grasping for an American dream that keeps making them crazy"). Lee was also interviewed on "Writing the Unconscious and Unconventional" for Electric Lit's 2026 winter craft interview series and for Writer’s Digest on writing and publishing her novel. LitHub has included it on their list of “20 new books out today!”, as well as Debutiful, for their “19 Debut Books to Discover from March 2026.” AMERICAN HAN was published by Alongquin on March 31, 2026.

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.