Three J&N clients have been honored as finalists for 2026 Pulitzer Prizes: Rachel Aviv (Feature Writing), Sarah Chihaya (Memoir or Autobiography), and Nicholas Kristof (Opinion Writing).

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DOGS, BOYS, AND OTHER THINGS I’VE CRIED ABOUT debuted on The New York Times Bestsellers list for the week of May 17, 2026, appearing at #1 on the Hardcover Nonfiction and Combined Print & E-Book lists. William Morrow published the book on April 28, 2026.

EVIDENCE OF THE EXTRAORDINARY received rave blurbs from Chris Cuomo (“If you love mysteries but hate nonsense, this is your book. Evidence of the Extraordinary is smart, compelling, and genuinely addictive.”) and Luis Elizondo (“A fun and entertaining guide on how to ponder some of life’s deepest mysteries. But don’t be fooled; EVIDENCE OF THE EXTRAORDINARY has less to do with conspiracy theories that it does with the psychology of our species. An important read I encourage anyone who is curious to pick up for a reminder that ‘the proof’ is sometimes way out there.”). Meanwhile, Kirkus calls the book “an engrossing look into ‘anomalous phenomena’ and investigative attempts to separate fact from fiction.” Atria published the EVIDENCE OF THE EXTRAORDINARY on May 5, 2026.

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.