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April 21, 2023

A "WORKING LIFE" by Eileen Myles published this week to critical acclaim. The book received a wonderful review from Publishers Weekly: "With just a few words per line, [Myles'] poems move down the page quickly, the language dashed off and immediate, as though keeping pace with the poet’s mind...While at times, these poems can present as random and rapidly scribbled, there are rewards here for the readers who stick with them, revealing the joys of a life built out of thinking, dreaming, and making." Vulture featured the book on its list of “6 New Books You Should Read This April,” praising: "A ‘WORKING LIFE’ takes you where Myles feels like, for however long they feel like it, and in whichever direction. This is harder than it looks. The ease of Myles’ lines — the way words break in two to calibrate rhythm and speed, or how the number of words per line expand and single out to play around with tension — belie great skill. But the difference between poets isn’t just style; it’s personality, or one’s outlook on life. Myles’s is one of the most distinctive, and insightful." Myles was also interviewed for WNYC's "All of It with Alison Stuart." Grove Press published the book on April 18, 2023.

April 21, 2023

Oprah Weekly included De'Shawn Charles Winslow's DECENT PEOPLE on a list of “8 New Mysteries to Die For,” praising it as “elegant.” Atlanta Magazine included the book on its “Spring Reading” round-up of new releases by Atlanta based authors, calling it a “sweeping novel.” Lastly, The New York Public Library chose it as one of its Spring 2023 Staff Picks for Adults, where NYPL Associate Director of Public Programs Aidan Flax-Clark raves: “If you love murder mysteries, Winslow's second novel is a fresh take on an old form.” Bloomsbury Publishing published DECENT PEOPLE on January 17, 2023.

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.