Antonia Angress’ sparkling debut SIRENS & MUSES continues to earn wonderful press in the weeks following its publication. Glamour named SIRENS & MUSES one of “The 10 Hottest New Books to Read This Month,” praising: “SIRENS AND MUSES holds the reader’s attention like a gallery so compelling that a visitor is torn between staring at one work and rushing on to the next room... Each artist's subject matter is distinct but they share the same obsessive focus on value—value of their art, the value of connections, of integrity, of legacy. There's romance and eroticism here, extending between the women but also between the artists and their work.” Angress also published an essay in the July/August print edition of Poets & Writers titled “Sanctuary: How My Mother’s Art Shaped Me as a Writer.” Angress writes: “Living between worlds can feel like living nowhere. But the skills my childhood taught me—code-switching, shape-shifting, finding points of connection across language, culture, & nationality—have proved essential to the art of fiction.” Ballantine Books published SIRENS & MUSES on July 12, 2022.

Rebecca Rukeyser sat down with best-selling author Carmen Maria Machado for ELLE.com to discuss “Youth and Sleaze” in Rukeyser’s debut novel, THE SEAPLANE ON FINAL APPROACH. Machado praises: “[Rukeyser] spends a great deal of the book outlining various things that are or are not sleazy and also trying to identify and pursue sleaziness, as she recognizes it. It’s a tremendous engine for the book, way more than I would’ve expected if you just described it to me…I think what makes me so interested in the setting in particular, besides the physical specificness of it, which is so beautifully written in this book, is also the quality of it being the last frontier. This idea, the way they talk about, it’s very westward expansion, homesteads. There's even this quality of almost colonialist storytelling. It’s constantly a space of invention and just forging ahead and authenticity.” Doubleday publish the novel on June 7, 2022.