- April 20, 2024: A GREAT DISORDER [1] by Richard Slotkin is a Next Big Idea Club selection [2]
- April 10, 2024: Based on the bestselling novel by Scott Turow [3], PRESUMED INNOCENT [4] will premiere on Apple TV+ on April 14 as a limited TV series starring Jake Gyllenhaal and produced by J.J. Abrams and David E. Kelley
- April 8, 2024: The Italian translation of THE WOLVES OF WILLOGHBY CHASE [5] by Joan Aiken was nominated for a Premio Andersen book production [6] prize at the Bologna Book Fair
- April 4, 2024: Thomas Grattan’s IN TONGUES [7] is included in Bloomberg’s Best Spring Books list [8] and Interview Magazine’s “10 Queer Books I’m Packing in My Bottega Veneta Andiamo Bag” list [9]
- April 3, 2024: HOW TO READ A BOOK [10] by Monica Wood is an Indie Next pick for May [11]
- March 9, 2024: Craig Johnson’s THE LONGMIRE DEFENSE [12] has won Best Contemporary Western Novel Award [13] by the Western Writers of America
- March 1, 2024: SORA’S SEASHELLS [14] by Helena Ku Rhee receives a 2024 Ezra Jack Keats Award Honor [15]
- February 21, 2024: Elizabeth McKenzie’s DOG OF THE NORTH [16] is a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award [17]
- January 9, 2024: IN TONGUES [7] by Thomas Grattan appears on Electric Literature’s “42 Queer Books You Need to Read in 2024” list [18]
- January 8, 2024: Tori Malcangio’s “Invasive Species” wins the 2023 Missouri Review’s Editor Prize in Fiction [19]
- November 20, 2023: WELLNESS [20] by Nathan Hill and THE MUSEUM OF FAILURES [21] by Thrity Umrigar are included on NPR’s “2023 Books We Love” list [22]
- November 16, 2023: Thrity Umrigar’s THE MUSEUM OF FAILURES [21] appears on BookRiot’s Best Books of 2023 list [23]
- November 14, 2023: BEYOND THAT, THE SEA [24] by Laura Spence-Ash is included on Amazon’s Best Debut of 2023 list [25] and Nathan Hill’s WELLNESS [20] is included on Amazon’s Top 20 Books of the Year list [26]
- November 9, 2023: Elizabeth Crook [27] wins the 2023 Texas Writer Award [28] at the Texas Book Festival
- October 5, 2023: Scott Turow [3] wins the 2023 Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement [29] from the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame
- September 19, 2023: Oprah Winfrey chooses WELLNESS [20]by Nathan Hill as her next Oprah Book Club pick [30]
- September 5, 2023: WELLNESS [20]by Nathan Hill appears on the “New Books to Read in September” list [31] in The New York Times and is a Best of the Month pick from Amazon [32]
- September 4, 2023: Anne Valente’s story, “Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit [33],” appears in The American Scholar
- May 26, 2023: Laura Spence-Ash’s BEYOND THAT, THE SEA [24] is on the New York Times’ Summer Reading list [34]
- May 11, 2023: Helena Ku Rhee’s ROSA’S SONG [35] is named the 2023 Best Children’s Book of the Year [36] by the Children’s Book Council
- May 4, 2023: BIG SHADOW [37] by Marta Balcewicz is on the “Best Books of the Month” list [38] in Vol. 1 Brooklyn
- April 27, 2023: “On Writing (and Rewriting) Illness [39],” a piece by Elizabeth Benedict on The Millions
- March 28, 2023: BEYOND THAT, THE SEA [24] by Laura Spence-Ash is a Good Morning America Buzz Pick [40]
- March 25, 2023: “I Am Haunted by What I Have Seen at Great Salt Lake [41],” an op-ed by Terry Temptest Williams in The New York Times
- March 22, 2023: THE DOG OF THE NORTH [16] by Elizabeth McKenzie is included on Sloane Crosley’s “Best Books for Spring 2023” list [42] in Departures
- March 20, 2023: Laura Spence-Ash’s BEYOND THAT, THE SEA [24] is a Publisher’s Weekly Book of the Week [43]
- March 18, 2023: Robert D. Kaplan’s “What I Failed to Understand About Saddam’s Iraq—and American Power [44],” appears in Wall Street Journal
- March 13, 2023: THE DOG OF THE NORTH [16] by Elizabeth McKenzie is on the longlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction [45] 2023 and The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction [46] 2023
- March 10, 2023: OUT THERE [47] by Kate Folk is on the longlist for the California Book Awards 2023 for First Fiction [48]
- February 24, 2023: Philip Lopate is elected to the American Academy of Arts & Letters [49]
- February 23, 2023: Tamara Dean’s story, “Wrecker [50],” appears in One Story
- January 26, 2023: DESERT GETAWAY [51] by Michael Craft is a 2023 Edgar Nominee [52] for the Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial award
- January 18, 2023: Elizabeth McKenzie’s THE DOG OF THE NORTH [16] and Dominic Smith’s RETURN TO VALETTO [53] appear on Publisher Marketplace’s Spring/Summer Fiction Preview as “Highly Anticipated [54]”
- January 15, 2023: THE DOG OF THE NORTH [16] by Elizabeth McKenzie appears on Lit Hub’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2023” list [55]
- January 6, 2023: Laura Spence-Ash’s BEYOND THAT, THE SEA [24] appears on Publisher Weekly’s “Writers to Watch in Spring 2023” list [56]
- December 19, 2022: Kate Folk’s OUT THERE [47] appears on Jezebel’s “10 Best Books That Came Out This Year” list [57] and “Best Story Collections of 2022” list [58] in Chicago Review of Books
- December 13, 2022: END OF THE WORLD HOUSE [59] by Adrienne Celt is included in Glamour’s Best Books of the 2022 list [60]
- December 9, 2022: Natalie Garrett’s EAT JOY [61] appears on Orion Magazine [62] and Apartment Therapy [63]’s holiday gift guides and THE LONELY STORIES [64] appears on The Millions’ “Year in Reading” list [65] and BOMB Magazine [66]’s Small Press Gift Guide
- November 26, 2022: SUSPECT [3] by Scott Turow is included on the Best Thrillers of the Year list [67]in the Sunday Times
- November 23, 2022: “Quantum Voicemail [68],” a story by Kristen Iskandrian, appears on Electric Literature
- November 22, 2022: “What It’s Like to Get Hit By an SUV [69],” an essay by Tamara Dean in The Guardian
- November 17, 2022: Heather Gudenkauf’s THE OVERNIGHT GUEST [70] is a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards [71] in Mystery/Thriller
- November 15, 2022: IN THE HOUSES OF THE DEAD [72] by Terry Alford appears on Amazon’s Best History Books of 2022 list [73], and THE OVERNIGHT GUEST [70] by Heather Gudenkauf appears on Amazon’s Best Mystery/Thrillers of 2022 list [74] as well as the Top 100 list [75]
- November 14, 2022: Andrea Barrett’s NATURAL HISTORY [76] and Kate Folk’s OUT THERE [47] are included on Kirkus’s Best Fiction Books of the Year list [77] and their Best Story Collections of the Year list [78], and OUT THERE [47] is included on their Best Debuts of the Year list [79]
- October 28, 2022: Bill Hayes’s SWEAT [80], Robert D. Kaplan’s ADRIATIC [81], and Katharine Blake’s THE UNINNOCENT [82] are included in The New Yorker’s “Best Books of 2022” list [83]
- October 12, 2022: Taisia Kitaiskaia’s story, “Work Wife [84],” in Conjunctions
- September 30, 2022: “Hed and Dek Pitches for a Magazine for Grooms, Written in the Style of a Magazine for Brides [85],” a piece by Devorah Blachor in The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts
- September 21, 2022: Lara Bazelon’s “Adnan Syed’s Accidental Justice [86],” in New York Magazine
- September 16, 2022: “As a Child, Andrea Barrett Was Drawn to Books for Grown-Ups [87],” a profile of the author in The New York Times’ By the Book column
- September 15, 2022: BEASTS OF A LITTLE LAND [88] is a finalist for the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize [89]
- September 15, 2022: “Where to Start with Dark Academia Fiction [90],” an essay by Joanna Margaret in CrimeReads
- August 31, 2022: “If Selfies Came with Automatic Transcripts of Our Thoughts [91],” a comic by Adrienne Celt, in The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts
- August 30, 2022: END OF THE WORLD HOUSE [59] by Adrienne Celt is included in Harper Bazaar’s “Best, Buzziest Books of 2022” list [92]
- July 12, 2022: Tamara Dean’s “‘Thank The Lord, I Have Been Relieved’: The Truth About the History of Abortion in America [93],” in The Guardian
- July 7, 2022: “Remember When We Were Holy [94],” a story by Tori Malcangio on Conjunctions
- July 6, 2022: Amazon includes Heather Gudenkauf’s THE OVERNIGHT GUEST [95] on their Best Mystery & Thrillers of 2022 so far list, as well as Terry Alford’s IN THE HOUSES OF THEIR DEAD [96] and Robert D. Kaplan’s ADRIATIC [96] on their Best History Books of 2022 so far list
- June 29, 2022: “Adrienne Celt asks, ‘What Makes Something Meaningful?’ [97]”, an interview with the author about END OF THE WORLD HOUSE [59], on Catapult
- June 27, 2022: “Neighborhood Dogs [98]” by Taisia Kitaiskaia and a Letter to the Editor [98] by Kate Folk appear in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern
- June 14, 2022: Adrienne Celt’s “You Need a Horror Movie Friend for a More Frightening, Less Lonely Life [99],” a Letter of Recommendation in The New York Times Magazine
- June 13, 2022: “Confessions of a 1980s Flight Attendant [100],” a profile of Ann Hood and her book, FLY GIRL [101], on CNN.com
- May 18, 2022: END OF THE WORLD HOUSE [59] by Adrienne Celt is included on Business Insider’s “Best Science Fiction Novels of the Year” list [102]
- May 13, 2022: Kristen Iskandrian [103] is awarded a Sustainable Arts Foundation [104] grant
- May 10, 2022: Lara Bazelon’s excerpt from AMBITIOUS LIKE A MOTHER, “The Knife’s Edge That Ambitious Women Must Navigate [105]” appears in Lit Hub, her op-ed, “Don’t Worry Working Moms: Your Kids are Going to be Alright [106]” in the Globe & Mail, and a profile of the book in the New York Post [107]
- May 5, 2022: Adrienne Celt’s END OF THE WORLD HOUSE [59] is a Best New Spring Books pick on Shondaland [108] and Bustle [109]
- May 4, 2022: BLOOMSBURY GIRLS [110] by Natalie Jenner is a June Indie Next pick [111]
- April 29, 2022: “For My Korean-Black Family, the Aftermath of the L.A. Riots Cut Deep [112],” an op-ed by Helena Ku Rhee, in the Los Angeles Times
- April 19, 2022: Adrienne Celt’s essay, “Memories of Grad School and Ambition, Death and Regret [113],” in Lit Hub, and the author’s END OF THE WORLD HOUSE [59] is included in their list of “Books to Keep an Eye Out For This Week” list [114], also on Lit Hub
- April 18, 2022: END OF THE WORLD HOUSE [59] by Adrienne Celt appears on Bustle’s “Most Anticipated Books of April” list [115] and on NYPL’s “Time Loop Novels for Fans of Russian Doll” list [116]
- April 8, 2022: Kate Folk’s OUT THERE [47] is the Boston Globe’s “Pick of the Week [117]”
- April 5, 2022: Lara Bazelon’s “The End of Mom Guilt [118],” an excerpt from AMBITIOUS LIKE A MOTHER [119], in The Atlantic
- April 4, 2022: “Terry Alford Explores History’s Haunted Houses [120],” a profile of the author and his upcoming book, IN THE HOUSES OF THEIR DEAD [72], in Publisher’s Weekly
- April 1, 2022: THE SWEETNESS OF WATER [121] by Nathan Harris is shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize [122] and appears on the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award long list [123]
- March 29, 2022: Kate Folk’s “On Notes to a Future Self: How Journaling Helps Me Write [124],” an essay in Lit Hub
- March 29, 2022: END OF THE WORLD HOUSE [59] by Adrienne Celt appears on Lit Hub’s list [125] of “April’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books” and Kate Folk’s OUT THERE [47] appears on Lit Hub’s list [126] of “New Books Coming to an Indie Near You”
- March 23, 2022: “The Moist House [127]” by Kate Folk is excerpted from her upcoming collection, OUT THERE [47], in Electric Literature, “Kate Folk Believes the Weird and Eerie Transcends Genre [128],” an interview with the author, in Catapult, and “Shuttling Down the Side Streets of the Weird [129],” another interview with Kate Folk in Chicago Review of Books
- March 22, 2022: Devorah Blachor publishes “Don’t Say Straight [130]” in McSweeney’s, “How To Resolve Conflicts with Your Crypto Landlord [131],” in The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts, and “This Is How An Iconic 1980s Ad Doomed Women [132]” in the Los Angeles Review of Books
- March 17, 2022: END OF THE WORLD HOUSE [133] by Adrienne Celt is included on “Books Goodreads’ Editors Are Extremely Excited About” list
- March 16, 2022: Phillip Lopate receives the Christopher Lightfoot Walker Award from The American Academy of Arts & Letters [134]
- March 8, 2022: Adrienne Celt’s END OF THE WORLD HOUSE [59] is included on Town & Country’s Best Spring Books of 2022 list [135] and Parade’s “Books We’re Loving This Spring” list [136]
- March 7, 2022: OUT THERE [47] by Kate Folk appears on io9’s “Most Anticipated SFF Books in March” list [137]
- March 4, 2022: Tamara Dean’s piece, “Safer Than Childbirth [138],” in The American Scholar
- February 26, 2022: “Seeking a Father for My Child (Relationship Optional) [139],” a Modern Love essay by Katharine Dion in The New York Times
- February 25, 2022: SWEAT: A History of Exercise [80] by Bill Hayes appears on the “Best Nonfiction Books of the Year [140]” list in Esquire
- February 23, 2022: Thomas Grattan’s THE RECENT EAST [141] is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize’s Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction [142]
- February 21, 2022: Kate Folk’s OUT THERE [47] is included in a “Books to Read in March” list on A.V. Club [143]
- February 18, 2022: “Can Prioritizing Your Career Be Good for Your Kids [144]? [144],” an interview with Lara Bazelon about her upcoming book, AMBITIOUS LIKE A MOTHER [119], in The Boston Globe
- February 14, 2022: Adrienne Celt’s comics, “Valentines for People You’re Committed to Destroying in Secre [145]t” appear on Hobart After Dark
- February 14, 2022: Kate Folk reads her story, “Out There [146],” the title story in her upcoming collection [47], for the New Yorker’s Writer’s Room podcast
- February 9, 2022: The National Book Foundation awarded Rachel Pastan’s IN THE FIELD [147] with an inaugural Science & Literature Award [148]
- February 1, 2022: THE OVERNIGHT GUEST [149] by Heather Gudenkauf is a February Barnes & Noble Mystery/Thriller pick [150]
- January 13, 2022: Kate Folk’s OUT THERE [47]and Adrienne Celt’s END OF THE WORLD HOUSE [59] are included in The Millions’ “Most Anticipated: The Great First Half Book Preview [151]“
- January 12, 2022: HONOR [152] by Thrity Umrigar and END OF THE WORLD HOUSE [59] by Adrienne Celt appear on Book Riot’s Most Anticipated Books of 2022 list [153]
- January 10, 2022: Kate Folk’s OUT THERE [47] is part of Publisher’s Weekly “Writers to Watch Spring 2022 [154]” feature
- January 5, 2022: SWEAT [80] by Bill Hayes and END OF THE WORLD HOUSE [59] by Adrienne Celt are included on Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2022 list [155]
- January 4, 2022: Thrity Umrigar’s HONOR [152] is a Reese Witherspoon January Book Club pick [156]
- January 3, 2022: END OF THE WORLD HOUSE [59] by Adrienne Celt is included on Harper’s Bazaar [92], Bustle [157], Glamour [158], Living North [159], Veranda [160], Chicago Review of Books [161], PopSugar [162] and Good Housekeeping [163]’s Most Anticipated Books of 2022 lists
- January 1, 2022: “Sometimes You Have to Hate Exercise Before You Can Love It Again [164],” an op-ed by Bill Hayes, in The New York Times
- December 15, 2021: Thomas Grattan’s THE RECENT EAST [141] is longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel [165]
- December 7, 2021: BEASTS OF A LITTLE LAND [88] by Juhea Kim is included on Best of the Month lists for The Washington Post [166], USA Today [167], E! Online [168], Vulture [169], Popsugar [170], Bustle [171], The Millions [172], and Amazon [173], is a holiday book pick for Good Morning America [174], and is one of Real Simple’s Best Book of 2021 [175]
- November 19, 2021: Flynn Berry’s NORTHERN SPY [176] appears on the “Best Thrillers of 2021” lists for The Washington Post [177] and The New York Times [178]
- November 17, 2021: THE SWEETNESS OF WATER [121] by Nathan Harris wins the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence [179], is included on Oprah Daily’s Best Fiction Books of 2021 list [180], and appears on The Washington Post’s “50 Notable Works of Fiction for 2021” list [181]
- October 28, 2021: A SPLENDID INTELLIGENCE [182] by Cathy Curtis is included on the “16 New Books Coming in November [183]” list in The New York Times
- October 25, 2021: Juhea Kim’s BEASTS OF A LITTLE LAND [88] appears on Harper Bazaar’s “Books To Read in 2021” list [184] and Buzzfeed’s “The Best Historical Fiction Books You’re Going to Want to Read This Fall” list [185]
- October 22, 2021: Lindsey Drager’s THE ARCHIVE OF ALTERNATE ENDINGS [186] wins Annual Bard Fiction Prize [187]
- September 22, 2021: THE STRATEGY OF DENIAL [188] by Elbridge A. Colby is included in The Wall Street Journal’s “Best Books of September” list [189]
- September 21, 2021: Nathan Harris, author of THE SWEETNESS OF WATER [121], is a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35 [190]” honoree
- September 20, 2021: BEASTS OF A LITTLE LAND [88] by Juhea Kim is included in USA Today [191] and Buzzfeed [192]’s Most Anticipated Fall Books lists
- July 9, 2021: THE SWEETNESS OF WATER [121] by Nathan Harris is included on Former President Obama’s Summer Reading list [193] and is on the longlist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize [194]
- July 6, 2021: Caroline Leavitt’s WITH OR WITHOUT YOU [195] appears in People’s “Best New Books” picks
- June 30, 2021: “In a World Without Sushi [196],” an essay by Juhea Kim, in Guernica
- June 28, 2021: Susan Heeger’s story, “Houseboat [197],” appears in New England Review
- June 22, 2021: “Is Your Idea Better Suited for a Novel or a Short Story [198]?” a piece by Adrienne Celt, in Catapult
- June 21, 2021: Andrew Brininstool is a Finalist for the PEN/Writing for Justice [199] fellowship
- June 15, 2021: Nathan Harris’s THE SWEETNESS OF WATER [121] is an Oprah Book Club pick [200] and a July Indie Next pick [201]
- June 2, 2021: Kyle Beachy’s THE MOST FUN THING [202] appears on Lit Hub’s “Nonfiction Books You Should Read This Summer [202]”
- June 1, 2021: THE RECENT EAST [203] by Thomas Grattan is included on “The Best New Reads for Pride Month 2021 [204]” in Harper’s Bazaar
- May 29, 2021: Lara Bazelon’s A GOOD MOTHER [119] appears in The New York Times Book Review’s “Summer Reading [205]” issue
- May 11, 2021: “Female Public Defenders are Unsung Heroes: It is Long Past Time to Change That [206],” an essay by Lara Bazelon in CrimeReads
- May 6, 2021: Tamara Dean’s essay, “Slow Blues [207],” first published in The American Scholar, is a finalist for the National Magazine Awards [208]
- April 28, 2021: BEASTS OF A LITTLE LAND [88] by Juhea Kim is a Buzz Books Editor’s Panel [209] pick
- April 20, 2021: Flynn Berry’s NORTHERN SPY [176] is a Reese Witherspoon April Book Club pick [210] and the author is interviewed in Entertainment Weekly [211]
- April 19, 2021: Thomas Grattan, author of THE RECENT EAST [203], is interviewed in Entertainment Weekly: “What’s in a Page: Author of THE RECENT EAST started in a subway car [212]“
- April 17, 2021: “I Have Read Thousands of Resumes, and I Have Some Advice [213],” an op-ed in The New York Times by A-J Aronstein
- March 22, 2021: “Your Only Job Is to Ignore That Phone [214],” a story by Hannah Gersen, on Electric Literature
- March 17, 2021: Lara Bazelon’s A GOOD MOTHER [119] and Nathan Harris’s THE SWEETNESS OF WATER [215] appear on Library Journal’s Best Debut Novels of Spring/Summer list [216]
- March 15, 2021: “What Does Freedom Mean? A Debut Novel Is Asking [217],” a profile of Nathan Harris’s THE SWEETNESS OF WATER [215] in Publisher’s Weekly
- March 10, 2021: From The New York Times [218]: “Norton Juster, who wrote one of children’s literature’s most beloved and enduring books, THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH, died on Monday at his home in Northampton, Mass.”
- March 2, 2021: Thomas Grattan’s THE RECENT EAST [203] is Best Book of the Month in Vulture [169], O Magazine [219], and Amazon [220]
- February 16, 2021: “What Makes a Murderer [221]?” by Lara Bazelon in The Atlantic and an interview with and profile of the author in The Sun [222]
- January 28, 2021: Jennifer Tseng’s story, “Cat’s-Eye [223],” in American Short Fiction
- January 27, 2021: “The Art of the Cover Letter [224]” by A-J Aronstein appears on Paris Review Daily
- January 19, 2021: THE PAPER KINGDOM [225] by Helena Ku Rhee is a finalist for a 2020 Cybils Award [226]
- January 14, 2021: Laura Brodie’s piece, “Myths of Chivalry [227],” in MoMA Magazine
- January 8, 2021: THE RECENT EAST [203] by Thomas Grattan appears on Most Anticipated Books of 2021 lists in O Magazine [228], Electric Literature [229], Refinery29 [230], The Millions [231], The Advocate [232], and Redbook [233], and is included in Publishers Weekly [234]’s Spring 2021 Announcements
- January 6, 2021: PICKARD COUNTY ATLAS [235] by Chris Harding Thronton on Lit Hub [236] and CrimeReads’ [237] “Most Anticipated Books of 2021” lists
- January 5, 2021: Flynn Berry’s NORTHERN SPY [176] is a Publisher’s Marketplace Winter Institute Buzz Book [238] and appears on CrimeReads’ “Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2021” list [237]
- January 3, 2021: Susan Heeger’s story, “Besame Mucho [239],” in december
- December 12, 2020: Penelope Rowlands’s essay, “My Fax Friends [240],” in The American Scholar
- December 3, 2020: “Anna, Dressed in White and Blue [241],” a story by Mark Helprin, in National Review
- December 1, 2020: Susan Heeger’s essay, “Fire Season [242],” in Los Angeles Magazine
- November 27, 2020: THE PAPER KINGDOM [225] by Helena Ku Rhee is included on Parents Magazine [243], Kirkus Reviews, BookPage [244], Los Angeles Public Library [245], and Amazon [246]’s Best Children’s Books of 2020 lists, and is a NPR Best Book of the Year and Staff Pick [247]
- October 30, 2020: David Hopen’s THE ORCHARD [248] is included on The New York Times’s “16 New Books to Watch this November” list [249] and Entertainment Weekly’s “The Biggest and Best Books of Fall 2020” list [250]
- September 26, 2020: “Amy Coney Barrett Is No Ruth Bader Ginsburg [251],” an op-ed in The New York Times by Lara Bazelon
- September 15, 2020: Juhea Kim’s “The Windows of My Oregon Condo Have Been Sealed for 6 Days [252],” in The Independent
- September 10, 2020: “Food and Covid-19: I Am Going to Eat the World [253],” an essay by Jesse Lee Kercheval, in Entropy
- September 8, 2020: A-J Arnstein’s piece, “Elsie Conick: A Biography in Fragments [254],” in Guernica
- August 17, 2020: “What Does New Love Look Like in a Pandemic [255],” an excerpt from Bill Hayes’s HOW WE LIVE NOW [256], in Medium
- August 12, 2020: TRUE STORY [257] by Kate Reed Petty is included on Buzzfeed’s Summer Reading list [258], Entertainment Weekly’s Best Books of the Summer list [259], NJ.com’s Books to Read this Summer and Fall list [260]
- August 5, 2020: Ellen Feldman’s “The Jews Who Fought for Nazi Germany [261],” in Tablet Magazine
- August 4, 2020: Michael Kardos’s story, “The Wish [262],” appears in One Story
- July 31, 2020: “My Novel’s Heroine is Doing Better in the Publishing World Than I Did [263],” an essay by Ellen Feldman, on Lit Hub
- July 28, 2020: Kate Reed Petty’s essay, “It’s Time to Radically Rethink Online Book Events, [264]” on Electric Lit
- July 22, 2020: “A Woman’s Life, in 10 Scenes [265],” a story by Juhea Jim, on Joyland
- July 22, 2020: TRUE STORY [257] by Kate Reed Petty appears on the Center for Fiction’s 2020 First Novel Prize longlist [266]
- July 20, 2020: “How to Write a Timely Novel in a World That Won’t Stop Changing [267],” an essay by David James Poissant, on Lit Hub
- July 16, 2020: “Between the Lines [268],” an essay by Nilo Tabrizy, on Guernica
- June 25, 2020: Ian Bassingthwaighte’s story, “The Crucible [269],” appears in One Story
- May 31, 2020: “Half a Loaf [270],” by Jesse Lee Kercheval, in The Sewanee Review for their Coronavirus Correspondence series
- May 21, 2020: TRUE STORY [257] by Kate Reed Petty is included on Buzzfeed’s Summer Reading list [258] and Entertainment Weekly’s Best Books of the Summer list [259]
- May 21, 2020: Heather Gudenkauf’s THIS IS HOW I LIED [70] appears on The New York Times’ Summer Reading roundup [271]
- May 20, 2020: Jonathan Fineberg’s essay, “Memory in the Year of Covid [272],” in the LARB’s China Channel
- May 12, 2020: Cheryl Sucher’s essay, “My Mother Lived for Six Years on a Ventilator [273],” in Forward
- May 11, 2020: Christine Schutt [274] wins the Katherine Ann Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- May 11, 2020: Jesse Lee Kercheval’s essay, “The New Troy [275],” appears on Guernica
- May 8, 2020: LAKE LIFE [276] by David James Poissant is a Publisher’s Weekly Summer Reading Pick [277]
- May 5, 2020: Nathan Hill’s essay, “Postcard from the Pandemic: A Solid Little Feeling [278],” appears on Poets & Writers online
- May 4, 2020: ELDERHOOD [279] by Louise Aronson is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction [280]
- May 1, 2020: Heather Gudenkauf’s THIS IS HOW I LIED [70] and Scott Turow’s THE LAST TRIAL [3] are Amazon Best Books of the Month for Thriller, Mystery and Suspense [281]
- May 1, 2020: THE JANE AUSTEN SOCIETY [282] by Natalie Jenner is a Featured Debut and a Top Ten Book of the Month for Amazon [173]
- April 29, 2020: Kristen Iskandrian’s story, “Alabama Funeral [283],” appears in Zyzzyva
- April 15, 2020: Scott Turow’s op-ed, “There’s No Better Time to Bring Back the Pocket Handkerchief, [284]” in The Washington Post
- March 30, 2020: “One Sure Cure for the Quarantine Blues: A Family Pillow Fight, [285]” an op-ed by Lara Bazelon in The Washington Post
- March 27, 2020: Louise Aronson’s “‘COVID-19 Kills Only Old People. Only? [286]” in The New York Times, “Ageism is Making the Pandemic Worse [287]” in The Atlantic, and “Coronavirus Reveals Just How Little Compassion We Have for Older People [288],” in Vox
- March 26, 2020: “Walking in the City Before the Bookstores Closed [289],” an essay by Bill Hayes in Lit Hub
- March 20, 2020: THE GENTLEMAN [290] by Forrest Leo is included on Men’s Health’s Quarantine Reading list [291]
- March 16, 2020: Kate Folk’s story, “Out There [292]” appears in The New Yorker
- March 8, 2020: “How Old is Too Old to Work [293],” a profile of Louise Aronson [294] on New Yorker online [293]
- February 28, 2020: “My Korean Immigrant Parents Taught Me to Pursue My Own Version of the American Dream [295],” an op-ed by Helena Ku Rhee in the LA Times
- February 13, 2020: Helena Ku Rhee’s THE PAPER KINGDOM [225] is a Spring Kids’ Indie Next pick [296] and is included on BookPage’s Most Anticipated Children’s Books of 2020 list [297]
- December 24, 2019: MEANDER, SPIRAL, EXPLODE: DESIGN AND PATTERN IN NARRATIVE [298] by Jane Alison is included in The Atlantic’s Best Books of 2019 list [299]
- December 10, 2019: Natalie Eve Garrett’s EAT JOY [300] is included on Marta Stewart’s Best Cookbooks of 2019 list [301]
- December 3, 2019: Jill Ciment’s THE BODY IN QUESTION [302] is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year [303]
- December 2, 2019: EAT JOY [300] by Natalie Eve Garrett appears on Good Housekeeping [304], T [305]he Rumpus [305], and Buzzfeed’ [306]s holiday gift guides
- November 27, 2019: ELDERHOOD [294]by Louise Aronson is included on Chicago Public Library’s Best Books of the Year list [307]
- November 22, 2019: Natalie Eve Garrett’s EAT JOY [308] is a November Indie Next pick [309] and an Indie Next List Holiday Gift Guide pick [310]
- October 22, 2019: MEANDER, SPIRAL, EXPLODE: DESIGN AND PATTERN IN NARRATIVE [298] by Jane Alison is on Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 list [311]
- October 3, 2019: Terry Tempest Williams’ EROSION: ESSAYS OF UNDOING [312] is on Newsweek’s “10 Books to Curl Up With This Fall” list [313], is a Washington Post Book of the Month pick [314], a Kirkus Nonfiction Book of the Season pick [315], and appears on Chicago Tribune‘s “Books You Need to Read Now” list [316]
- October 2, 2019: Natalie Eve Garrett’s EAT JOY [317] is included on The Millions “Most Anticipated (this month)” list [318], Garden and Gun’s “October 2019 Reading List [319],” Taste of Home’s “10 New Fall Cookbooks You Need to Own” list [320], Hello Giggle’s “The 13 best new books to read in October” list [321] and PureWow’s “13 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in October” list [322]
- October 1, 2019: ELDERHOOD [294] is longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction [323]
- September 30, 2019: Lara Bazelon’s “What 2 Deep-Dive Books on Kavanaugh Taught Me About Truth in the Trump Era [324]” on Politico
- September 22, 2019: Goldie Goldbloom’s ON DIVISION [325] is chosen for San Francisco’s One Bay One Book [326] program for 2019-2020
- September 19, 2019: “The Next Day and the Days Ever After [327],” a new story by Adrienne Celt, in McSweeney’s
- September 18, 2019: Terry Tempest Williams’s essay, “On Patriarchy, the Divine Feminine, and Loving the Earth [328],” in the Chicago Review of Books, excerpted from her new collection, EROSION [312]
- July 29, 2019: Juhea Kim’s story, “The Color of the Year 2022 [329],” appears on Catapult
- July 22, 2019: “Meet the South Dakota Rancher Taking on Climate Change—One Bison Steak at a Time [330],” a profile of Dan O’Brien [331] in Men’s Journal
- July 1, 2019: “The Biggest House on Earth [332]” by Choi In-Ho, translated by Juhea Kim, on Granta
- June 30, 2019: Cindy Pon’s story, “Like Magic [333],” appears in the New York Times’ “10 Y.A. Novelists Spin Fiction from Vintage Photos”
- June 29, 2019: “I’ve Picked My Job Over My Kids [334],” an op-ed by Lara Bazelon in the New York Times
- June 27, 2019: PARIS IN THE PRESENT TENSE [335] by Mark Helprin is included on The Washington Post’s “Books to Read for the Ages” list [336]
- June 25, 2019: Louise Aronson’s “The Many Ways We Create ‘The Other [337],'” an excerpt from ELDERHOOD [294], on Lit Hub
- June 24, 2019: Ann Tashi Slater’s “Summer in Toyko: Rain Women, Cicadas, and visits from the Dead [338]” appears on Catapult
- June 11, 2019: ELDERHOOD [294]by Louise Aronson is a Publisher’s Weekly Pick of the Week [339] and the author appears on “CBS This Morning [340]” and NPR’s “Fresh Air [341]”
- June 7, 2019: Jennifer Traig’s ACT NATURAL [342] is included on Real Simple’s Best Books of 2019 So Far list [343]
- June 6, 2019: Louise Aronson’s ELDERHOOD [294] is included in AARP Magazine’s “Big Summer Reads” roundup [344] and a Q&A with the author appears on Salon [345]
- June 5, 2019: RUBYFRUIT JUNGLE [346] by Rita Mae Brown appears on O Magazine’s “50 Best LBGTQ Books Of All Time” list [347]
- June 4, 2019: PARIS IN THE PRESENT TENSE [335] by Mark Helprin is included in the The New York Times’ “Summer Books Preview [348]”
- June 3, 2019: Adrienne Celt’s INVITATION TO A BONFIRE [349] appears on the June Indie Next list [350]
- May 18, 2019: Cindy Pon’s RUSE [351]appears on Buzzfeed’s “YA Books to Devour During Asian Pacific American Heritage Month” list [352]
- May 2, 2019: “Later, in Filmmaking II [353],” by Dave Madden in The Kenyon Review
- April 29, 2019: “Is Aging a Disease [354],” an interview with Louise Aronson about her upcoming book, ELDERHOOD [294], in Publisher’s Weekly
- April 5, 2019: Jane Stanton Hitchcock’s “A Crime Writer’s Guide to Poker Obsession [355],” on CrimeReads
- March 27, 2019: Jane Alison’s “Beyond the Narrative Arc [356],” on Lit Hub, excerpted from MEANDER, SPIRAL, EXPLODE [357]
- March 26, 2019: “A Crime in Public View: How William Barr Pardoned Donald Trump [358]” by Scott Turow in Vanity Fair
- March 25, 2019: “Meet the Host of the Podcast for People with No Attention Span [359],” a profile of Jason Porter on Lit Hub
- March 19, 2019: “The Bone Ward [360],” a story by Kate Folk, appears in McSweeney’s
- March 14, 2019: Kate Folk [47] is awarded a Stegner Fellowship in Fiction for 2019-2021
- March 14, 2019: An essay by Jennifer Kabat, “Ghostlands [361],” appears on Granta
- March 13, 2019: Emily Bernard’s BLACK IS THE BODY [362] is profiled in People [363] and her piece, “In The Source of Self-Regard, Toni Morrison Reveals How Her Greatest Novels Came to Be [364],” appears in the March issue of O Magazine
- February 26, 2019: THIS IS NOT A LOVE SONG [365] by Brendan Mathews is on Vogue’s “4 New Books We’re Loving” list [366]
- February 12, 2019: “On Youth Suicide in Iowa [367],” by Heather Gudenkauf, in Salon
- February 7, 2019: A DOUBLE LIFE [176] by Flynn Berry is Bustle’s February Book Club pick [368], chosen by Paula Hawkins
- January 30, 2019: Emily Bernard’s essay, “But What Will Your Daughters Think [369],” in Lit Hub
- January 18, 2019: “Kamala Harris Was Not a ‘Progressive Prosecutor [370],'” an op-ed by Lara Bazelon in The New York Times
- January 17, 2019: An excerpt of STILL IN LOVE [371] by Michael Downing appears on Lit Hub [372]
- January 14, 2019: Jennifer Traig’s “The Making of the Picky Eater [373],” in The Wall Street Journal, and “A Brief History of Children’s Books: Nasty, Brutish, and Short [374],” in Lit Hub, both excerpts from her book, ACT NATURAL [375]
- January 2, 2019: Devorah Blachor’s “I Don’t Hate Women Candidates – I Just Hated Hillary and Coincidentally I’m Starting to Hate Elizabeth Warren [376],” on McSweeney’s
- December 17, 2018: “Happy Bad Choices Day [377],” an essay by Jennifer Traig, is on Slate
- December 15, 2018: Jennifer Traig’s ACT NATURAL [375] appears on Real Simple’s Best Books of 2019 (So Far) list [343]
- December 14, 2018: INVITATION TO A BONFIRE [349] by Adrienne Celt is included on Electric Literature’s Best Novels of 2018 list [378]
- December 10, 2018: Devorah Blachor’s “Terms and Conditions for Telling Me About Your Day [379],” an op-ed in The New York Times
- December 7, 2018: BLACK IS THE BODY [362] by Emily Bernard is included on O Magazine’s “25 Most Anticipated Books of 2019 So Far [380]” list
- December 5, 2018: Lara Bazelon’s “I’m a Democrat and a Feminist. And I Support Betsy DeVos’s Title IX Reforms [381],” an op-ed in The New York Times
- November 30, 2018: THE DEPENDENTS [382] by Katharine Dion, KITCHEN YARNS [101] by Ann Hood, ULTRAVIOLET [383] by Suzanne Matson, BODY FULL OF STARS [384] by Molly Caro May, and WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT CHARLIE OUTLAW [385] by Leah Stewart appear on Real Simple’s Best Books of 2018 list [386]
- November 29, 2018: Lara Bazelon’s “The Rising Tide of Wrongful Convictions [387],” an essay in Longreads, and “Incarcerating the Innocent [388],” an essay in The American Scholar, both adapted from RECTIFY [389]
- November 27, 2018: Ann Hood’s KITCHEN YARNS: NOTES ON LIFE, LOVE AND FOOD [390] on The Washington Post’s “10 Books to Read in December” list [391]
- November 27, 2018: SCRIBE [392] by Alyson Hagy and LISTEN TO THE MARRIAGE [393] by John Jay Osborn are on NPR’s 2018 Great Reads list [394]
- November 26, 2018: INVITATION TO A BONFIRE [349] by Adrienne Celt is included in “These Novels Prove That Women Make Fascinating Serial Killers Too [395]” on Buzzfeed
- November 21, 2018: Ruth Gruber’s photos appear in “We’ll Meet Again: Surviving the Holocaust [396]” on PBS
- November 20, 2018: Christine Schutt’s PURE HOLLYWOOD [397] is on The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2018 list [398]
- November 19, 2018: “People Like Me [399],” an essay by Emily Bernard excerpted from her forthcoming book, BLACK IS THE BODY [362], in the December issue of Harper’s
- November 12, 2018: THE LAKE ON FIRE [400] by Rosellen Brown and THE STRANGER GAME [401] by Peter Gadol appear on Kirkus’ Best Fiction of 2018 list [402]
- November 11, 2018: Lara Bazelon’s “This Is What Wrongful Conviction Does to a Family [403],” an excerpt from RECTIFY [389], in Politico
- November 8, 2018: THREE JUNES [404] by Julia Glass is on Lit Hub’s “20 Debut Works of Fiction by Women Over 40” list [405]
- October 29, 2018: “In LISTEN TO THE MARRIAGE, A Case For Spending Time in the Counselor’s Office [406],” an interview with John Jay Osborn, on NPR
- October 18, 2018: “The Basement [407],” a story by Adrienne Celt, in The Rumpus
- October 17, 2018: Lara Bazelon’s “Christine Blasey Ford’s Memory of Her Assault Isn’t a Case of Mistaken Identity [408]” and “The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction [409]” both on Slate
- October 11, 2018: RECTIFY [389] by Lara Bazelon is included on Bitch Media’s “15 Nonfiction Books Feminists Should Read This Fall” list [410]
- October 9, 2018: “The World’s Most Outstanding Person [411]” by Susan Heeger is in the Fall issue of The Maine Review
- October 3, 2018: Alyson Hagy’s SCRIBE [392] is Belletrist’ [412]s October book pick
- October 3, 2018: Lara Bazelon’s piece, “The Kavanugh Hearings Have Demonstrated How Desperately America Needs Restorative Justice [413],” on Slate
- October 2, 2018: INVITATION TO A BONFIRE [349] by Adrienne Celt and A HOUSE AMONG THE TREES [414] by Julia Glass are included on the WNBA’s 2018 Great Group Reads list [415]
- September 28, 2018: Lara Bazelon’s “Supreme Fiasco: Did the Kavanaugh Drama Just Break the Senate [416]?” in Politico
- September 24, 2018: “Man Up, Grassley. Question Blasey Ford Yourself [417],” an op-ed by Lara Bazelon [389] in The New York Times
- September 24, 2018: Adrienne Sharp’s “I Remember You [418]” on Tin House’s Open Bar
- September 17, 2018: Alyson Hagy’s SCRIBE [419] and Melanie Hobson’s SUMMER CANNIBALS [420] appear on Vanity Fair’s Best Fall Fiction list [421]
- September 7, 2018: THE DEPENDENTS [382] by Katharine Dion and ULTRAVIOLET [383] by Suzanne Matson are included on Real Simple’s Best Books of 2018 So Far list [386]
- September 5, 2018: Suzanne Matson’s ULTRAVOILET [383] appears on September lists in Nylon [422] and Vol. 1 Brooklyn [423]
- August 29, 2018: EARNING THE ROCKIES [424] by Robert D. Kaplan is PBS NewsHour’s September book club pick [425]
- August 22, 2018: Ann Tashi Slater’s “Teatime in Darjeeling [426]” in Lit Hub, originally published by Tin House
- August 16, 2018: “Bending Towards Instinct: Q&A with INVITATION TO A BONFIRE author Adrienne Celt [427],” in Zyzzyva
- August 2, 2018: Maria Hummel’s STILL LIVES [428] is Reese Witherspoon’s August Book Club pick [429]
- August 1, 2018: A DOUBLE LIFE [176] by Flynn Berry appears on Bustle’s weekly reading list [430] and is excerpted in Parade Magazine [431]
- July 30, 2018: Lara Bazelon’s “What It Takes to Be a Trial Lawyer If You’re Not a Man [432],” in The Atlantic
- July 27, 2018: Flynn Berry’s “The Murder That Exposed the British Class System [433],” in CrimeReads
- July 26, 2018: “Letter of Recommendation: Dead Malls [434],” an essay by Kate Folk, in The New York Times Magazine
- July 20, 2018: A DOUBLE LIFE [176] by Flynn Berry on BBC‘s “10 Smartest Beach Reads of 2018” list [435]
- July 19, 2018: Kent Wascom’s essay, “Series, Saga, Cycle… [436]” in Lit Hub
- July 16, 2018: Flynn Berry’s A DOUBLE LIFE [176] appears in O Magazine’s August issue in the Best Summer Thrillers roundup and Susan Heeger’s essay, “Of Mice and Mom,” also in the issue
- July 7, 2018: INVITATION TO A BONFIRE [349] by Adrienne Celt is a New York Post [437] Book of the Week
- July 3, 2018: Flynn Berry’s A DOUBLE LIFE [176] is on Good Housekeeping’s Best Summer Books list [438] and CrimeRead’s Best Books of July list [439]
- June 30, 2018: THE DEPENDENTS [382] is a New York Post [440] Book of the Week
- June 29, 2018: I’M NOT MISSING [441] by Carrie Fountain is on Bustle’s Best July YA Novels list [442]
- June 25, 2018: Katharine Dion’s THE DEPENDENTS [382] is on Real Simple’s Best Books of 2018 (So Far) list [443], a New York Post [444] weekly “must-read,” and People Magazine’s Book of the Week
- June 22, 2018: INVITATION TO A BONFIRE [349] by Adrienne Celt is a Book Riot Most Anticipated Summer Read
- June 14, 2018: THE DEPENDENTS [382] by Katharine Dion is excerpted in Poets & Writers [445] and the author is interviewed in the July issue
- June 11, 2018: Adrienne Celt’ [349]s “On the Pain of Breaking Up with My Old Apartment [446],” an illustrated essay in Lit Hub, “Toothless: On the Dentist, Powerlessness, and Pnin [447],” an essay in Paris Review Daily, and “On a John Singer Sargent Painting and Marrying Young [448],” an essay in Catapult
- June 6, 2018: STILL LIVES [428] by Maria Hummel appears on Refinery29’s Best Books of June list [449]
- June 6, 2018: Katharine Dion’s THE DEPENDENTS [382] and Adrienne Celt’s INVITATION TO A BONFIRE [349] appear on O Magazine’s “Top Books of Summer [450]” list
- June 5, 2018: Adrienne Celt’s essay, “Vladimir Nabokov Taught Me How to Be a Feminist [451],” in Electric Literature, “People Ask Me to Write about Horses [452]” in Tin House, and “The Beginning of Me [453],” an excerpt from her novel, INVITATION TO A BONFIRE [349], in Shondaland
- June 3, 2018: THE DEPENDENTS [382] by Katharine Dion and STILL LIVES [454] by Maria Hummel are included in Entertainment Weekly’s June Reading list [455]
- June 2, 2018: INVITATION TO A BONFIRE [349] by Adrienne Celt is an Amazon Book of the Month [456] for June
- June 1, 2018: Laura Pritchett’s THE BLUE HOUR [457] won the 2018 Colorado Book Award [458] in Literary Fiction
- May 30, 2018: Adrienne Celt’s INVITATION TO A BONFIRE [349] is featured on Summer Reading lists in Harper’s Bazaar [459], Nylon [460], O Magazine [450], Bustle [461], Elle [462], Parade [463], Chicago Tribune [464], MyDomaine [465], Vol. 1 Brooklyn [466], Lit Hub [467], Fodor’s Travel [468] and others
- May 29, 2018: Maria Hummel’s STILL LIVES [428] is a Book of the Month [469] pick for May and is included on Buzzfeed [470] and The Daily Beast [471]’s Summer Reading lists
- May 23, 2018: Time Magazine [472] includes THE DEPENDENTS [382] by Katharine Dion and STILL LIVES [454] by Maria Hummel on their Summer Reading list
- May 22, 2018: THE LOVED ONES [473] by Sonya Chung is included in “Road Trip Reads” in The New York Times [474]
- May 21, 2018: Lindsey Drager’s THE LOST DAUGHTER COLLECTIVE [475] is a finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award [476] in LGBTQ Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror and a finalist for the 2017 Foreward Indie Award in Literary Fiction [477]
- May 17, 2018: Jennifer Kabat’ [478]s essay, “Thomas Cole: A Conservative Conservationist [479],” in The New York Review of Books
- May 16, 2018: GALAPAGOS REGAINED [480] by James Morrow wins the 2018 Grand Prix de L’Imaginaire [481] for Best Foreign Novel
- May 15, 2018: PURE HOLLYWOOD [482] by Christine Schutt is appears on New York Magazine’s Best Book of the Year (So Far) list [483]
- May 10, 2018: THE LOST DAUGHTER COLLECTIVE [484] by Lindsey Drager and THE ASYLUM OF DR. CALIGARI [480] by James Morrow are 2017 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees [485]
- May 9, 2018: STILTSVILLE [486] by Susanna Daniel is included on PureWow’s “8 Quintessential Books Set in Miami” list [487]
- May 3, 2018: Jennifer Tseng’s THE PASSION OF WOO & ISOLDE [488]is a finalist for the 2018 CLMP Firecracker Awards in Fiction [489]
- May 1, 2018: INVITATION TO A BONFIRE [349] by Adrienne Celt is a June Indie Next pick [490]
- April 2, 2018: LIVE FROM CAIRO [491] by Ian Bassingthwaighte is a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award [492]
- March 29, 2018: Devorah Blachor [493]’s piece “Gen X Activism: An Oral History [494]” in The New York Times
- March 6, 2018: Adrienne Celt [349] is one of BookPage’s “11 Women to Watch in 2018” [495]
- February 6, 2018: Devorah Blachor [493]’s essay How I Solved the Gender Labor Imbalance [496] in The New York Times
- January 30, 2018: Dave Madden’s [497] essay Nonfiction as Queer Aesthetic: Discovering Myself, Discovering My Art [498] in Lit Hub
- January 18, 2018: Molly Caro May’ [499]s piece, “I Am Different Now from the Person I Wrote in My Memoir [500],” in Lit Hub
- January 18, 2018: DOUBLE LIFE by Flynn Berry [176], INVITATION TO A BONFIRE by Adrienne Celt [349], THE DEPENDENTS [501] by Katharine Dion, and WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT CHARLIE OUTLAW by Leah Stewart [385] are on Publishers Marketplace’s Spring/Summer Buzz Books [502] list
- January 10, 2018: “The Innocence Deniers [503]” by Lara Bazelon [504] in Slate
- January 8, 2018: INVITATION TO A BONFIRE by Adrienne Celt [349] on The Millions’ Most Anticipated Books of 2018 List [505] and The Rumpus’ “What to Read in 2018 [506]” list
- January 3, 2018: Lara Bazelon [504]’s op-ed, “After #MeToo Comes to the Courts [507],” in The New York Times
- December 30, 2017: Kristen Iskandrian [508]’s MOTHEREST is included in The Wall Street Journal’s “Fiction that Defined 2017 [509]” list and is a Lenny Letter Best Book of 2017 [510]
- December 15, 2017: “Pups,” a story by Kate Folk [511], in One Story [512]
- December 14, 2017: Laura Pritchett’ [103]s THE BLUE HOUR [457] makes the Booklist Editors’ Choice List for 2017 [513]
- December 13, 2017: Rita Mae Brown’ [514]s Sneaky Pie Mystery series appears on Book Riot’s “25 of the Absolute Best Cozy Mystery Series” list [515]
- December 8, 2017: Phillip Lopate [516]’ [103]s A MOTHER’S TALE is mentioned as author Sujatha Gidla’s favorite book of the year in Publishers Weekly [517]
- December 5, 2017: Heather Gudenkauf’s NOT A SOUND [518] named an NPR Best Book of the Year [519]
- December 4, 2017: Mark Helprin’ [335]s PARIS IN THE PRESENT TENSE is featured on Powell’s list of Best Fiction of 2017 [520]
- December 1, 2017: EYES OF THE WORLD [521]by Marina Budhos and Marc Aronson is a Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year [522], a 2018 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist [523], and a Horn Book Best Book of the Year [524]
- November 28, 2017: Adrienne Celt’ [349]s INVITATION TO A BONFIRE is included on Book Riot’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2018 [525]” list
- November 17, 2017: Dominic Smith [526] is awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship [527] for 2018
- November 15, 2017: EYES OF THE WORLD [521]by Marina Budhos and Marc Aronson is named one of the Best Children’s Books of 2017 [528] by the Washington Post
- November 15, 2017: Heather Gudenkauf’s NOT A SOUND [518] named one of the 10 Best Thrillers and Mysteries of 2017 [529] by the Washington Post
- November 13, 2017: Devorah Blachor [530]‘s piece “Learning to Accept My Daughter’s Obsession With Disney Princesses [531]” in The Washington Post
- November 13, 2017: Ian Bassingthwaighte’s LIVE FROM CAIRO [491] is included on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction of 2017 [532] list
- November 10, 2017: SERAFINA AND THE SPLINTERED HEART [533] by Robert Beatty is one of Amazon’s Best Children’s Books of 2017 [534]
- October 27, 2017: Lachlan Smith [535]‘s WOLF’S REVENGE is a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year [536]
- October 27, 2017: Kristen Iskandrian [103]’s MOTHEREST is on Publishers Weekly’s Best Fiction of 2017 [537] list
- October 18, 2017: Anne Edelstein’s essay “In Losing a Dog, a Lesson in Love and Madness [538]” in Tablet
- October 4, 2017: Jennifer Kabat [478]’ [539]s essay “Rain Like Cotton [540]” in BOMB magazine
- October 1, 2017: Sharon Harrigan [541]’ [539]s essay “The Unusual Way My Husband and I Keep the Spark Alive [542]” in Real Simple magazine
- September 6, 2017: Sorayya Khan’ [539]s CITY OF SPIES is named one of the Huffington Post’ [543]s “28 New Fiction Books to Add to Your Must-Read List This Fall.”
- August 3, 2017: Brendan Mathews’ THE WORLD OF TOMORROW [544] is an Indie Next Pick [545], and Caroline Leavitt’s CRUEL BEAUTIFUL WORLD [546] is an Indie Next Paperback Pick [545].
- August 2, 2017: Kristen Iskandrian’s MOTHEREST [547] is an August Best Book pick from Bookish [548] and The Millions [549]
- August 2, 2017: MOTHEREST [547] by Kristen Iskandrian and MORNINGSTAR: GROWING UP WITH BOOKS [550] by Ann Hood are iBooks Best Books of August [551]
- July 17, 2017: Hannah Gersen’s [552] HOME FIELD is long listed for the 2017 Crook’s Corner Book Prize [553]
- July 13, 2017: MOTHEREST [547] by Kristen Iskandrian and THE WORLD OF TOMORROW [544] by Brendan Mathews are long listed for the 2017 Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize [554]
- May 1, 2017: Kristen Iskandrian’s story, “The Taster [555],” in Ploughshares
- April 27, 2017: UNDER THE HARROW [176] by Flynn Berry wins a 2017 Edgar Award [556] for Best First Novel [556]
- April 22, 2017: THE NIX [20] by Nathan Hill wins the L.A. Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction [557]
- April 6, 2017: Terry Tempest Williams’ THE HOUR OF LAND [558] is a Nonfiction finalist for the ABA’s 2017 Indie Choice Awards [559]
- April 5, 2017: “Midnight in the Garden of Women [560],” an essay by Adrienne Celt, on Vol. 1 Brooklyn
- April 5, 2017: THE PORTABLE VEBLEN [561] by Elizabeth McKenzie is a Fiction finalist for the C [562]alifornia Book Award [562]
- April 4, 2017: Kristen Iskandrian’s story, “Good With Boys [563],” in Zyzzyva
- April 1, 2017: Jennifer Tseng’s story, “To Drink from the Lion’s Mouth [564]” in Tin House
- March 21, 2017: Louise Aronson [565], Jill Christman [566], and Richard Slotkin [567] are included on the longlist for the Notting Hill 2017 Essay Prize [568]
- March 20, 2017: Dominic Smith’s THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS [569] wins a Fiction Indie Book Award [570] from the Australian Independent Booksellers Association
- March 7, 2017: JUST BETWEEN US: MOTHER & DAUGHTER [571] by Meredith and Sofie Jacobs is profiled in The Wall Street Journal, “The Secret to Getting Your Teen to Talk” [572]
- March 6, 2017: Laura Pritchett’s THE BLUE HOUR [573] and Robert D. Kaplan’s EARNING THE ROCKIES [424] are included on PBS Newshour’s “Books that Will Make You Think About What it Means to be Human [574]” list
- February 22, 2017: THE NIX [20] by Nathan Hill is shortlisted for the L.A. Times’ Art Seidenberg Prize for First Fiction Book Prize [575]
- February 14, 2017: Bill Hayes’ “What it Was Like to Love Oliver Sacks [576]” on Buzzfeed, an excerpt from his memoir, INSOMNIAC CITY [577]
- January 31, 2017: “A Scale Model of Gull Point [578],” a story by Kate Folk, in Granta
- January 24, 2017: “The Wig [579],” a story by Kristen Iskandrian, in Joyland
- January 19, 2017: Flynn Berry’s UNDER THE HARROW [176] is shortlisted for the 2017 Edgar Awards’ Best First Novel Prize [556]
- January 13, 2017: From The New York Times [580]: “William Peter Blatty, the author whose best-selling book THE EXORCIST was both a milestone in horror fiction and a turning point in his own career, died on Thursday in Bethesda, Md… In praising his 1963 novel, JOHN GOLDFARB, PLEASE COME HOME!, a Cold War spoof that Mr. Blatty later adapted for the screen, Martin Levin of the New York Times invoked the humorist S. J. Perelman, one of Mr. Blatty’s literary idols; Mr. Blatty, he said, ‘writes like Perelman run amuck.’”
- January 6, 2017: Robert D. Kaplan’s op-ed, “Why Trump Can’t Disengage America from the World [581],” in The New York Times
- January 5, 2017: “His Hair Was on Fire [582],” flash fiction by Ron Carlson, on Kenyon Review online
- December 22, 2016: Flynn Berry’s UNDER THE HARROW [176] appears on The Atlantic’s Best Books We Read in 2016 list [583]
- December 20, 2016: NINE ISLAND [584] by Jane Alison and THE LOVED ONES [473] by Sonya Chung are included on Book Riot’s Best Books of the Year from Indie Presses list [585]
- December 19, 2016: Elizabeth McKenzie’s THE PORTABLE VEBLEN [16] appears on Elle’s Best Books of the Year list [586]
- December 19, 2016: NINE ISLAND [584] by Jane Alison is included on Lit Hub’s 35 Best Books of the Year list [587]
- December 16, 2016: Nathan Hill’s THE NIX [20] is included on The New York Times [588]’ and Washington Post’ [589]s Notable Books of 2016 lists, and Best Books of the Year lists for Newsday [590], Library Journal [591], Huffington Post [592], NPR [593], Entertainment Weekly [593], The Guardian [594], BookPage [595], and Amazon [596]
- December 14, 2016: Sonya Chung’s THE LOVED ONES [473] and Nathan Hill’s THE NIX [20] appear on Writer’s Bone‘s Best Books of 2016 list [597]
- December 9, 2016: T [598]HE ARTISTS’ AND WRITERS’ COOKBOOK [598] by Natalie Eve Garrett appears on The New York Times’ T Magazine’s holiday gift list [599]
- December 9, 2016: Susan Cheever’s DRINKING IN AMERICA [600] is included on the longlist [601]for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction and Matthew Griffin’s HIDE [602]is included on the longlist [603]for the 2017 PEN/Robert Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
- December 3, 2016: THE NIX [20] by Nathan Hill is a finalist for the NBCC’s 2016 John Leonard Prize [604] and is Audible’s Audiobook of the Year [605]
- December 2, 2016: Susan Heeger’s “Aquabot [606]” on Tin House’s Open Bar
- December 1, 2016: Jennifer Kabat’s essay, “The Fairytale [607],” in Granta
- November 30, 2016: David Greenwood’s story, “The Solo Show [608],” on Electric Literature’s “Recommended Reading”
- November 22, 2016: Elizabeth McKenzie’s THE PORTABLE VEBLEN [609] and Natalie Eve Garrett’s T [598]HE ARTISTS’ AND WRITERS’ COOKBOOK [598] in The New York Times’ 2016 Holiday Gift Guide [610] and Gift Guide for Food [611]and Cooking [611]
- November 17, 2016: Ruth Gruber, renowned photojournalist and author of 19 books, dies at 105. From The New York Times [612]: “Ms. Gruber called herself a witness, and in an era of barbarities and war that left countless Jews displaced and stateless, she often crossed the line from journalist to human rights advocate, reporting as well as shaping events that became the headlines and historical footnotes of the 20th century.”
- November 16, 2016: “Marina Budhos on Muslim Stereotypes, Surveillance, and Trump’s America [613],” an interview with the author of WATCHED [614]on Lit Hub
- November 15, 2016: THE NIX [20] by Nathan Hill and THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS [615] by Dominic Smith are on Amazon’s Best Books of the Year list [616]
- November 15, 2016: Scott Turow’s “My Inner 6-Year-Old Believed the Cubs Would Win [617]” in Time
- November 14, 2016: THE LOVED ONES [618] by Sonya Chung, THE NIX [20] by Nathan Hill, THE PORTABLE VEBLEN [16] by Elizabeth McKenzie, and THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS [615] by Dominic Smith are included on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction of 2016 [619] list
- November 14, 2016: Susan Heeger’s flash fiction “The Baby [620]” appears in Pinball Magazine
- November 8, 2016: Kate Folk’s “Heart Seeks Brain [621]” and James Morrow’s “Noh Exit [621]” in Conjunctions
- November 7, 2016: “Why My Generation of Women is More Excited to Vote for a Woman for President than My Daughters’ [622]” by Marianne Malone, in Parade
- November 2, 2016: Holly Bellebuono’s THE HEALING KITCHEN [623] is highlighted in T, The New York Times Style Magazine’s “Three New Cookbooks, for Health’s Sake” [624]
- November 2, 2016: “David James Poissant on Compression, Tension, and Writing Sacred [625],” an interview with the author of THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS [626] on Lit Hub
- November 1, 2016: “The Rumpus Interview with Jane Alison [627],” an interview with the author of NINE ISLAND [584] on The Rumpus
- October 31, 2016: Adrienne Celt’s essay, “The Writer Is In [628],” on Catapult
- October 28, 2016: NINE ISLAND [584] by Jane Alison is included on Publisher’s Weekly Best Fiction of 2016 list [629]
- October 26, 2016: “Shoot If You Must This Old Red Head [630],” a previously unpublished essay by the late Betty MacDonald, in the blog at Powell’s Books
- October 24, 2016: Nylon includes Natalie Eve Garrett’s T [598]HE ARTISTS’ AND WRITERS’ COOKBOOK [598] on their “New Books that are Guaranteed to Make You Hungry” list [631] and Garden & Gun’s Fall Reads list [632]
- October 18, 2016: “How I Learned That Beauty Doesn’t Have to Hurt [633],” an essay by Sonya Chung on Buzzfeed
- October 17, 2016: “Sonya Chung on Race, Risk, and Reinvention [634],” an interview with the author of THE LOVED ONES [635] on Electric Literature
- October 11, 2016: Excerpts from THE ARTISTS’ AND WRITERS’ COOKBOOK [598] edited by Natalie Eve Garrett appear on The Hairpin [636], Lucky Peach [637], The Kitchn [638], and Lit Hub [639]
- October 3, 2016: Sonya Chung’s THE LOVED ONES [640] is on Bustle [641], Nylon [642], and Refinery29 [643]’s Best Fiction of October lists
- October 1, 2016: THE ARTISTS’ AND WRITERS’ COOKBOOK [598] edited by Natalie Eve Garrett is a Pick of the Week on Lenny Letter [644] and appears on Teen Vogue’s What to Read in October list [645]
- September 29, 2016: Sonya Chung’s THE LOVED ONES [473] appears on the November Indie Next list [646]
- September 22, 2016: THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS [615] by Dominic Smith and THE HOUR OF LAND: A PERSONAL TOPOGRAPHY OF AMERICA’S NATIONAL PARKS [647] by Terry Tempest Williams are longlisted for 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence [323]
- September 19, 2016: THE LOVED ONES [473] by Sonya Chung is The Nervous Breakdown’s October Book Club pick [648]
- September 18, 2016: “My Teenage Obsession With ‘How Things Work’ [649]” by Heather Sellers in The New York Times
- September 15, 2016: Elizabeth McKenzie’s THE PORTABLE VEBLEN [561] shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction [650]
- September 14, 2016: Adrienne Celt’s story, “Big Boss Bitch [651]”, in Zyzzyva
- September 7, 2016: “Marina Abramović, James Franco, and More: Fanciful Recipes From Artists and Writers [652],” an excerpt from THE ARTISTS’ AND WRITERS’ COOKBOOK [653] edited by Natalie Eve Garrett, on Vogue.com
- September 1, 2016: CRUEL BEAUTIFUL WORLD [654] by Caroline Leavitt appears on the October Indie Next list [655]
- September 1, 2016: Jane Alison’s NINE ISLAND [656] is a Best Book of September in Elle Magazine [657]
- August 31, 2016: “The Rainmaker’s Flood” [658] by Jennifer Kabat in Harper’s Magazine
- August 29, 2016: THE NIX [659] and Nathan Hill profiled in The New York Times, “Nathan Hill Is Compared to John Irving. Irving Compares Him to Dickens [660],” and interviewed in New York Magazine [661]
- August 27, 2016: “Out Late with Oliver Sacks [662]” by Bill Hayes in The New York Times
- August 23, 2016: THE NIX [659] by Nathan Hill is a Barnes & Noble Fall 2016 “Discover New Writers” [663] pick and an Amazon Editor’s Pick for Fall 2016 [664]
- August 9, 2016: Lara Bazelon’s essay, “Put Away the Pitchforks Against Judge Persky [665],” in Politico
- August 8, 2016: “It’s Time Fiction Reflected Gay Married Life [666],” an essay by Matthew Griffin in The Guardian
- August 5, 2016: MIGRATORY ANIMALS [667] by Mary Helen Specht and RULES FOR WEREWOLVES [668] by Kirk Lynn win Writers’ League of Texas 2015 Book Awards [669]
- August 4, 2016: An excerpt from Hannah Gersen’s HOME FIELD [552] appears on Lit Hub [670]
- August 3, 2016: THE NIX [659] by Nathan Hill is included in New York Magazine’s “Books You Need to Read This August [671]” and appears on the September Indie Next list [672]
- August 2, 2016: THE BOOK THAT MATTERS MOST [673] by Ann Hood and THE NIX [20] by Nathan Hill are included on Barnes & Noble’s “August’s Best New Fiction” list [674]
- July 20, 2016: “Count It All What? On Titling My Novel [675],” an essay by Hannah Gersen, on Catapult
- July 11, 2016: Adrienne Celt’s story, “Dear Clarice [676],” in Ecotone
- July 7, 2016: Jennifer Tseng’s “Dearest Jenny: Reading My Chinese Father’s English Letters [677]” in Electric Literature
- July 6, 2016: THE LOVED ONES [618] by Sonya Chung, HOME FIELD [552] by Hannah Gersen, THE NIX [20] by Nathan Hill, and SHINING SEA [678] by Anne Korkeakivi are included in The Great Second Half 2016 Book Preview on The Millions
- June 30, 2016: THE BOOK THAT MATTERS MOST [673] by Ann Hood appears on the August Indie Next list [679]
- June 23, 2016: BEHAVE [680] by Andromeda Romano-Lax and THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS [569] by Dominic Smith appear on Amazon’s Best Books of 2016 So Far Literature & Fiction list [681]
- June 18, 2016: Ann Hood’s “Books Brought Me Back to Life [682]” in Publisher’s Weekly
- June 17, 2016: THE NIX [20] by Nathan Hill and HOME FIELD [683] by Hannah Gersen appear on The Master Review’s Summer Reading list [684]
- June 15, 2016: Lara Bazelon’s essay, “Exes and O’s [685],” on Slate
- June 13, 2016: Flynn Berry’s “When Your Research Starts to Terrify You [686]” on Lit Hub
- June 1, 2016: THE NIX [20] by Nathan Hill is on Entertainment Weekly [687], Harper’s Bazaar [688], and The Strand Bookstore [689]’s Summer Reading lists
- June 1, 2016: UNDER THE HARROW [176] by Flynn Berry is on Cosmopolitan [690], Elle [691], Huffington Post [692], Real Simple [693], PureWow [694], Goop [695], The Minneapolis Star-Tribune [696]’s Summer Reading lists
- May 24, 2016: Ron Carlson’s story, “Goodbye to Rootine [697],” appears in the June issue of Playboy
- May 23, 2016: Adrienne Celt [349] and Sarah Cornwell [698] win 2015 Prairie Schooner Writing Prizes [699]
- May 22, 2016: “No Sound, No Fury, No Marriage [700],” a Modern Love essay by Laura Pritchett in the The New York Times
- May 19, 2016: Ron Carlson [701] and Adrienne Celt [349] win 2016 O. Henry Prizes [702]
- May 18, 2016: Jennifer Kabat’s essay collection, GROWING UP MODERN [703], is shortlisted for the 2016 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize [704]
- May 10, 2016: “M Train by Patti Smith, A Partial Index [705]” by Kim Church on The Believer Logger
- May 6, 2016: “No More Dead Mothers: Reading, Writing, and Grieving [706]” by Hannah Gersen on Lit Hub
- May 5, 2016: Matthew Griffin’s “Notes from My Book Tour [707]” on Lit Hub
- May 1, 2016: Jane Bernstein’s “Why Are People Trying to Take My Disabled Daughter’s Job Away? [708]” in Vice
- April 28, 2016: Andrea Barrett [709] wins Rea Award for the Short Story [710]
- April 28, 2016: KING OF THE GYPSIES [711] by Lenore Myka is a finalist for the 2016 Chautauqua Prize [712]
- April 27, 2016: Terry Tempest Williams’s THE HOUR OF LAND: A PERSONAL TOPOGRAPHY OF AMERICA’S NATIONAL PARKS [713] is on the June Indie Next list [714]
- April 27, 2016: “The Carnival of Kid Baseball [715]” by Lynn Murray in Tin House’s Open Bar
- April 14, 2016: BEHAVE [680] by Andromeda Romano-Lax, THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS [569] by Dominic Smith, and THE ONE-IN-A-MILLION BOY [716] by Monica Wood are included on the April Indie Next list [717]
- April 12, 2016: Holly Bellebuono’s WOMEN HEALERS OF THE WORLD [718] was awarded a 2015 Better Books for a Better World Nautilus Gold Award [719]
- April 11, 2016: Elizabeth McKenzie’s THE PORTABLE VEBLEN [561] shortlisted for the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction [720]
- April 8, 2016: RED LIGHTNING [721] by Laura Pritchett is shortlisted for the 2015 Reading the West Awards [722]
- April 7, 2016: “Exactly What To Say [723]” by Kim Church, “A Healing Touch [724]” by Mary Jane Nealon, and “Unlocked [725]” by Heather Sellers in the April issue of The Sun
- April 7, 2016: Joan Aiken’s story, “The Cold Flame [726],” appears on Tor.com ahead of the publication of THE PEOPLE IN THE CASTLE [727]
- April 1, 2016: Dominic Smith’s THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS [569] is included in O Magazine’s April “10 Titles to Pick Up Now”
- March 14, 2016: AMERICAN COPPER [728] by Shann Ray wins the Western Writers of America 2016 Best First Novel Spur Award [729]
- March 12, 2016: “Views From a Height: Technologies of Surveillance from the Photographic Survey to the Predator Drone [730],” by Jennifer Kabat in the Los Angeles Review of Books
- March 9, 2016: LaShonda Katrice Barnett’s JAM ON THE VINE [731] and Michael Golding’s A POET OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD [732] named Lambda Literary Award finalists [733]
- March 3, 2016: Page Stegner, son of Wallace Stegner [734], discusses his father’s work in an interview [735] with University of Nebraska Press
- February 5, 2016: Lionsgate Motion Picture Group [736] acquires live-action film rights to the globally-renowned MAGIC TREE HOUSE [737] series by Mary Pope Osborne
- February 4, 2016: THE DAUGHTERS [349] by Adrienne Celt wins the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award for Fiction [738]
- February 3, 2016: “The First Summer [739],” an excerpt from Matthew Griffin’s HIDE [602], appears on Electric Literature’s “Recommended Reading”
- February 2, 2016: MAYUMI AND THE SEA OF HAPPINESS [740] by Jennifer Tseng is shortlisted for the 2016 PEN/Bingham Prize [741] for Debut Fiction
- January 26, 2016: “Surrealism and Decomposition. Or How I Wrote My Novel [742]” by Elizabeth McKenzie on the Lit Hub
- January 22, 2016: “The Making of THE PORTABLE VEBLEN [561]: Elizabeth McKenzie Talks with Her Editor” in Publishers Weekly [743]
- January 14, 2016: UNDER THE HARROW [744] by Flynn Berry, HOME FIELD [552] by Hannah Gersen, UNRIVALED [745] by Alyson Noel, and THREE MARTINI LUNCH [746] by Suzanne Rindell appear on the Publisher Lunch Buzz Books for Spring/Summer 2016 [747] list
- January 8, 2016: Adrienne Celt’s THE DAUGHTERS [349] is one of NYPL’s Favorite Books of 2015 [748]
- January 7, 2016: Ed Tarkington’s “How I Gave Up On the Great American Novel and Got a Book Deal [749]” on the Lit Hub
- January 7, 2016: MISSING PIECES [750] by Heather Gudenkauf and THE PORTABLE VEBLEN [751] by Elizabeth McKenzie are included on the February Indie Next list [752]
- January 6, 2016: THE PORTABLE VEBLEN [751] by Elizabeth McKenzie appears on Entertainment Weekly [753], Huffington Post [754], and Flavorwire [755]’s Most Anticipated Books of 2016 lists
- January 4, 2016: Hannah Gersen’s HOME FIELD [552] is included in The Great 2016 Book Preview [756] on The Millions
- December 21, 2015: Robert Beatty’s SERAFINA AND THE BLACK CLOAK [757] is one of Powell’s Books Best Kids’ Books of 2015 [758]
- December 18, 2015: Erin McGraw’s story, “Hello from an Old Friend [759],” appears in Tin House’s Open Bar Flash Friday
- December 17, 2015: Lenore Myka [711] is awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship for 2015 by the NEA [760]
- December 14, 2015: “An Overdose of Christmas Leads to a Bigger Hanukkah, and More [761],” by Devorah Blachor, in The New York Times
- December 13, 2015: “Who Said ‘Game of Thrones’ Wasn’t For Kids? [762]” by Lara Bazelon in The New York Times
- December 11, 2015: DRINKING IN AMERICA: OUR SECRET HISTORY [763] by Susan Cheever appears on Shelf Awareness’s Best Books of 2015 list [764]
- December 8, 2015: Adrienne Celt’s THE DAUGHTERS [349] and Michael Cunningham’s A WILD SWAN: AND OTHER TALES [765] appear on NPR’s Best Books of 2015 list [766]
- December 7, 2015: MAYUMI AND THE SEA OF HAPPINESS [740] by Jennifer Tseng is longlisted for the 2016 PEN/Bingham Prize [767]
- December 4, 2015: Michael Cunningham’s A WILD SWAN: AND OTHER TALES [765] featured on Slate’s 10 Best Books of 2015 list [765]
- December 3, 2015: Greil Marcus’s REAL LIFE ROCK [768] in The New York Times’ 2015 Holiday Gift Guide [769] and The New Yorker profiles his career in “Greil Marcus’s Critical Super Power [770]”
- November 19, 2015: “What’s the Best Way to Teach Kids about Tragedy? [771]” a profile of Lauren Tarshis’ best-selling I SURVIVED [772] series in The Atlantic
- November 18, 2015: From the New York Times [773]: “Stephen Birmingham, the prolific novelist, purveyor of popular sociology and raconteur of the rich and famous in best-selling books like OUR CROWD and THE RIGHT PEOPLE, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan.” From the Washington Post [774]: “He was working on a memoir at the time of his death, and many of his books are scheduled to be republished in electronic and paperback editions in the coming months.”
- November 16, 2015: ACT OF GOD [775] by Jill Ciment featured on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction Books of 2015 [776]
- November 14, 2015: “Modern Date Night [777],” by Heather Sellers in Parade
- November 13, 2015: Adrienne Celt’s THE DAUGHTERS [778] is shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Awards [779]
- November 11, 2015: EVERY PERSON IN NEW YORK [780] by Jason Polan is included on Amazon’s Best Books of 2015 Arts & Photography list [781]
- November 10, 2015: Michael Cunningham’s SNOW QUEEN [782] and Adrianne Harun’s A MAN CAME OUT OF A DOOR IN THE MOUNTAIN [783] longlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award [784]
- October 27, 2015: “The Art of Basketball, Writing, and Good Smack Talk [785],” Shann Ray in Conversation with Jess Walter, in Tin House’s Open Bar
- October 14, 2015: “A Woman Alone in China [786],” an essay by Virginia Pye, on the Lit Hub
- October 2, 2015: RULES FOR WEREWOLVES [787] by Kirk Lynn featured in Men’s Journal’s “The 7 Best Books of October” [788]
- October 1, 2015: David James Poissant’s essay, “How to Balance Writing, Family, Work and Life: An Unhelpful Guide for the Perplexed [789],” in Glimmer Train
- September 30, 2015: Lara Bazelon’s “Justice After Injustice [790]” in Slate
- September 25, 2015: “Ten Faces [791],” an excerpt from Joseph Skibell’s MY FATHER’S GUITAR AND OTHER IMAGINARY THINGS [792], in Commentary Magazine
- September 24, 2015: “From Divorce, a Fractured Beauty [793],” a Modern Love essay by Lara Bazelon [794] in The New York Times
- September 13, 2015: “What a team—football and Jesus [795],” an op-ed by Diane Roberts, in the Los Angeles Times
- September 5, 2015: WHAT IS VISIBLE [796] by Kimberly Elkins is a finalist for the Library of Virginia Literary Awards [797]
- September 3, 2015: Dwight Garner on Greil Marcus’s MYSTERY TRAIN [768] in “Just a Book? No, More Like a Trusty Companion [798]” in The New York Times
- September 2, 2015: Jennifer Kabat [703] is shortlisted for Knotting Hill Editions 2015 Essay Prize [799]
- August 28, 2015: Alexandra Zapruder’s introduction [800] to the second edition of SALVAGED PAGES: YOUNG WRITERS’ DIARIES OF THE HOLOCAUST [801] on the Lit Hub
- August 10, 2015: “Little Man [802],” an excerpt from Michael Cunningham’s A WILD SWAN: AND OTHER TALES [803], in The New Yorker
- August 13, 2015: Kim Church [804] is awarded a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship [805] for 2015 in prose
- August 4, 2015: “Two Truths and a Lie: What do Fiction Writers Take from Life? [806]” an essay by Adrienne Celt, in Tin House’s Open Bar
- August 3, 2015: Janet Sternburg’s WHITE MATTER [807] is profiled in The Washington Post, “A Memoir Investigates How a Family Lobotomized Two of its Children [808]”
- July 29, 2015: “Lulu [809],” an excerpt from Adrienne Celt’s THE DAUGHTERS [349], appears on Electric Literature‘s “Recommended Reading”
- July 7, 2015: JAM ON THE VINE [810] by LaShonda Barnett and MIGRATORY ANIMALS [667] by Mary Helen Specht are longlisted for the 2015 Crook’s Corner Book Prize [553] for Best Debut Novel Set in the South
- July 6, 2015: MAYUMI AND THE SEA OF HAPPINESS [740] by Jennifer Tseng is a finalist for the New England Independent Booksellers Association 2015 Book Award [811]
- July 6, 2015: Adrienne Celt’s THE DAUGHTERS [349] appears on The Millions’ Second Half of 2015 Most Anticipated Book list [812]
- June 19, 2015: Linda Yellin’s op-ed, “My Father was a Fraud [813],” in The Chicago Tribune
- June 15, 2015: “‘Just be yourself’ is cruel, fraudulent advice to give young people [814],” an essay by Jesse Browner, in Salon
- June 14, 2015: Craig Johnson’s ANY OTHER NAME [815] and Laura Pritchett’s STARS GO BLUE [573] are finalists for the 2015 High Plains Book Award [816] in Fiction
- June 12, 2015: “The Speakeasy: A week of stand-up in Hollywood’s toughest room [817]” by Dave Madden in Harper’s
- June 1, 2015: Rita Mae Brown [514] is awarded with a Lambda Literary Pioneer Award [818], presented by Gloria Steinem
- May 30, 2015: Jennifer Tseng’s MAYUMI AND THE SEA OF HAPPINESS [740] appears on LA Times’ Fiction Books You’ll Want to Read This Summer list [819]
- May 14, 2015: “Shopping for Antiques, Finding My Mother [820]” by Heather Sellers in The New York Times Opinionator’s Private Lives
- May 13, 2015: Adrienne Celt’s THE DAUGHTERS [778] appears on Bustle’s Best Books of the Summer list [821]
- April 27, 2015: Kim Church’s BYRD [804] is a finalist for the 2015 Chautauqua Prize [822], is longlisted for the 2015 SIBA Book Award [823] in Fiction, and wins a 2015 Independent Publisher Book Award [824], Bronze Medal in Literary Fiction
- April 15, 2015: “Mr. Legs [825],” a story by Sarah Cornwell, in Prairie Schooner
- April 11, 2015: Elizabeth Crook’s MONDAY, MONDAY [826] wins 2015 Jesse H. Jones Award [827] for best fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters
- March 31, 2015: Laura Pritchett’s STARS GO BLUE [573] is a finalist for MPIBA’s Reading the West Awards [828] in Adult Fiction and a finalist for The 2015 Colorado Book Awards in Literary Fiction [829]
- March 24, 2015: Adrianne Harun’s A MAN CAME OUT OF A DOOR IN THE MOUNTAIN [830] wins 2015 Pinckley Prize for Debut Novel [831]
- March 17, 2015: David James Poissant’s THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS [626] is one of ten debuts longlisted for the 2015 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize [832]
- March 15, 2015: Will Boast’s EPILOGUE [833]awarded a 2015 Rome Prize from the Academy of Arts and Letters [834]
- March 12, 2015: Jacinda Townsend’s SAINT MONKEY [835] wins 2015 James Fenimore Cooper Prize [836]
- February 1, 2015: “The One Beauty Treatment I Refused to Get [837]” by Ann Hood in Real Simple
- January 15, 2015: “Go Back [838],” a story by Adrienne Celt [349], in The Kenyon Review
- January 14, 2015: Kimberly Elkins’ WHAT IS VISIBLE [839]wins 2014 David Langum Prize [840] for American Historical Fiction
- January 6, 2015: Kim Church’s BYRD [841] wins 2014 Crook’s Corner Book Prize [553] for Best Debut Novel Set in the South
- January 2, 2015: “Traveling Corpse [842]” by Andrea Barrett appears in the Winter Issue of American Scholar
- December 28, 2014: WHAT IS VISIBLE [796] by Kimberly Elkins and THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS [843] by David James Poissant appear on Atlanta Journal Constitution‘s Best Books of 2014 list
- December 26, 2014: San Francisco Chronicle‘s Best of 2014 list [844] includes EPILOGUE [833] by Will Boast, E. E. CUMMINGS: A LIFE [845] by Susan Cheever, MOTHERLAND [846] by Maria Hummel, FAMOUS WRITERS I HAVE KNOWN [847] by James Magnuson, and THE HISTORY OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL IN TEN SONGS [848] by Greil Marcus
- December 24, 2014: KILL MY MOTHER [849] by Jules Feiffer appears on Vanity Fair‘s “Best Books of 2014 That You Can Spend 2015 Reading” list [850]
- December 23, 2014: “Knitting Through Grief [851]” by Ann Hood in The Boston Globe
- December 22, 2014: THE HISTORY OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL IN TEN SONGS [848] by Greil Marcus and FAMOUS WRITERS I HAVE KNOWN [847] by James Magnuson are on NPR’s Best Books of 2014 list [852]
- December 15, 2014: MERMAID [853] by Eileen Cronin is featured on O Magazine’s Best Memoirs of 2014 list [854] and on Pop Sugar’s Must Reads of 2014 [855]
- December 10, 2014: Greil Marcus’ THE HISTORY OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL IN TEN SONGS [848] appears on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Nonfiction Books of 2014 list [856], Buzzfeed Books’ “14 Books from 2014 Every Music Lover Needs To Read, [857]” and Financial Times’ Best Books of 2014 list [858]
- December 9, 2014: “One of Us is a Mystery: Marilynne Robinson and the Cosmology of Perdition [859],” an essay by Adrienne Celt, in Tin House’s Open Bar
- December 8, 2014: “Savage Breast [860],” a story by Elizabeth McKenzie, in The New Yorker
- December 7, 2014: KILL MY MOTHER [849] by Jules Feiffer is featured on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction Books of 2014 list [861] and iTunes Best Books of 2014 list [862]
- December 1, 2014: DEATH SWORN [863] by Leah Cypess appears on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Teen Books of 2014 list [864]
- November 28, 2014: Crook’s Corner Book Prize [865] shortlists Kim Church’s BYRD [841] and Jacinda Townshend’s SAINT MONKEY [835] for Best Debut Novel Set in the South
- November 27, 2014: Robert Kaplan’s ASIA’S CAULDRON [424] is one of Financial Times‘ Best Books of 2014 [858]
- November 25, 2014: WHAT IS VISIBLE [796] by Kimberly Elkins appears on Book Page’s Best Books of 2014 list [866]
- November 17, 2014: MONDAY, MONDAY [867] by Elizabeth Crook is featured on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction Books of 2014 list [861]
- November 16, 2014: Monica Wood’s essay “Permanent Collection [868]” appears in Parade Magazine
- November 7, 2014: “Happiness,” a short story by Ron Carlson, in Ecotone [869]
- November 5, 2014: EINSTEIN THE CLASS HAMSTER [870] by Janet Tashjian [871] is named to the Master List for the 2016 LA Reader’s Choice Award [872]
- October 29, 2014: Gregg Herken’s “The Georgetown Set: When Joe Aslop, Ben Bradlee and Their Friends Ran This Town [873],” an excerpt from his new book, THE GEORGETOWN SET [874], in Politico
- October 17, 2014: Vanity Fair publishes “Could the Secret Service Have Saved J.F.K.? [875],” adapted from Susan Cheever [845]‘s, DRINKING IN AMERICA: OUR SECRET HISTORY, forthcoming in October 2015
- September 24, 2014: THE WOMAN WHO LOST HER SOUL [876] by Bob Shacochis wins the Dayton Literary Peace Prize [877] for fiction
- September 15, 2014: Will Boast’s “Overdue [878],” an excerpt from his new memoir, EPILOGUE [833], is Narrative Magazine’s Story of the Week
- August 24, 2014: Greil Marcus’ “The Beatles’ Cry of Freedom: ‘Money,’ 50 Years Later [879],” an excerpt from his upcoming book, THE HISTORY OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL IN TEN SONGS [848], in The Los Angeles Times
- August 23, 2014: “On Not Writing [880]” by Bill Hayes in The New York Times
- August 19, 2014: “Horror Story at Lonely Lake [881],” flash fiction by Ron Carlson, in Tin House’s Open Bar
- July 16, 2014: “Empathy, Gentleness, Patience [882],” an essay by Heather Gudenkauf in Salon
- July 1, 2014: “Summer Losses [883]” by Paula Fox in The Yale Review
- June 26, 2014: Kim Church’s BYRD [841] and Jacinda Townshend’s SAINT MONKEY [835] are included on the Center for Fiction’s longlist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize [884]
- June 15, 2014: Andrea Barrett’s “Dust [885]” appears in The Paris Review, Issue 209, Summer 2014
- June 10, 2014: A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT ILLNESS [886] by Louise Aronson is a finalist for the 2014 PEN/Bingham Prize [887]
- June 2, 2014: “The Benevolent Society” [698] by Sarah Cornwell in the Summer issue of Alaska Quarterly Review
- May 31, 2014: “Lessons from the Smoke Shop” [888] by Bill Hayes in The New York Times
- May 30, 2014: “The Brutal Truth About Writing About a Father’s Alzheimer’s [889]” by Laura Pritchett in Publishers Weekly
- May 21, 2014: Meryl Gordon’s “The Curious and Shocking Death of Huguette Clark [890],” an excerpt from her upcoming book, THE PHANTOM OF FIFTH AVENUE [891], in the June issue of Town & Country
- May 4, 2014: Andrea Barrett’s “Don’t Be Afraid to Start Over [892]” on The American Scholar‘s Writing Lessons blog, about writing advice from Nicholas Delbanco
- April 28, 2014: THE NEXT TIME YOU SEE ME [893] by Holly Goddard Jones wins 2014 Kentucky Literary Award [894]
- April 14, 2014: THE WOMAN WHO LOST HER SOUL [876] by Bob Shacochis is a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize [895] in Fiction
- April 10, 2014: Randall Fuller awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship [896] in Humanities (American Literature)
- April 8, 2014: “Tracing the Blue Light [897],” an excerpt from Eileen Cronin’s memoir, MERMAID [898], on The Daily Beast
- April 6, 2014: MANY RIVERS TO CROSS [899] by Thomas Zigal receives Texas Institute of Letters’ Jesse Jones Award for Fiction
- March 25, 2014: “11 Underappreciated Literary Masterpieces [900],” an essay by Kim Church [901], on Huffington Post
- March 20, 2014: “Geopolitics and the New World Order [902]” by Robert D. Kaplan [424] is the cover story of Time
- February 24, 2014: “Shelter [903],” an excerpt from Adrianne Harun’s A MAN CAME OUT OF A DOOR IN THE MOUNTAIN [904], is the Story of the Week in Narrative Magazine
- February 21, 2014: Andrea Barrett [709] and Bob Shacochis [905] on the 2014 Carnegie Medal [323] longlist for Fiction
- February 14, 2014: “Winter’s Tale [906],” the Warner Bros. film adaptation of Mark Helprin [335]‘s acclaimed novel, is released in theaters nationwide, starring Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Jessica Brown Findlay, Eva Marie Saint, and Will Smith
- February 10, 2014: SCHRODER [907] by Amity Gaige on the shortlist for the 2014 Folio Prize [908]
- January 21, 2014: “Forgiveness and Healing: My Thalidomide Story [909],” an essay by Eileen Cronin [910], in Everyday Health
- January 15, 2014: Andrea Barrett’s ARCHANGEL [709] is a finalist for the 2013 Story Prize [911]
- December 12, 2013: THE JOKER [912] by Andrew Hudgins featured on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Nonfiction Books of 2013 list [913]
- December 6, 2013: THE WOMAN WHO LOST HER SOUL [876] by Bob Shacochis appears on Huffington Post [914]’s 10 Best Books of 2013, Amazon [915]’s Best Books of 2013, Kirkus Reviews [916]’ Best Fiction Books of 2013, Library Journal [917]’s and Entertainment Weekly [918]’s Top 10 Books of 2013, and NPR [919]’s Best Reads of the Year
- December 6, 2013: Amity Gaige’s SCHRODER [907] appears on The New York Times [920]and Washington Post [921]’s Notable Books of 2013, Huffington Post [922]’s Best Books of 2013, Kirkus Reviews [916]’ Best Fiction Books of 2013, Amazon [923]’s 100 Best Books of 2013, Bookmarks Magazine [924]’s Best Books of 2013, is one of Publisher’s Weekly [925]’s 101 Best Books of 2013, and is mentioned in two [926] “A Year in Reading” lists on The Millions [927]
- December 5, 2013: Rita Mae Brown [928] nominated for a Career Achievement Award [929]from RT Book Reviews in the Mystery & Suspense category
- December 3, 2013: “The Secrets Inside Us [930],” an op-ed by Bill Hayes [931] in The New York Times
- November 25, 2013: “Longmire [932],” the A&E hit dramatic television series based on the novels by Craig Johnson [933] (Viking), has been renewed for a third season [934]
- November 20, 2013: Cynthia Kadohata is the 2013 National Book Award Winner, Young People’s Literature [935] for her novel, THE THING ABOUT LUCK [936]
- November 18,2013: ARCHANGEL [709] by Andrea Barrett, THE SPIRIT OF STEAMBOAT [933] by Craig Johnson, THE OTHER TYPIST [937] by Suzanne Rindell, and BEAR IS BROKEN [938] by Lachlan Smith appear on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction Books of 2013 list [939]
- November 5, 2013: Patrick Arden [940] wins Blue Mountain Center’s Richard J. Margolis Award for Nonfiction
- November 2013: Ann Hood’s novel THE OBITUARY WRITER [941] has been chosen for the Ladies’ Home Journal November Book Club selection. Read Ann’s letter for the online component of the Book Club here [942].
- October 18, 2013: “The Love of the Chase,” [943] an essay by Rita Mae Brown, in Saveur
- October 15, 2013: VQR [944] launches an on-going six-part series on living in New York, by Bill Hayes [931]
- October 9, 2013: From the New York Times [945]: “Stanley Kauffmann, whose literate, tightly constructed movie reviews appeared in The New Republic for more than half a century and set a standard for critical ease and erudition, died on Wednesday in Manhattan.” Visit this page [946] to read tributes to Stanley by James Wolcott, David Denby, Rebecca De Mornay, and others.
- September 25, 2013: “The Tunnel” or “The News from Spain,” from THE NEWS FROM SPAIN, originally published in Glimmer Train, by Joan Wickersham has been selected as one of the Best American Short Stories, 2013 [947]. Stories making the Notables List include: Andrea Barrett’s “The Particles” from ARCHANGEL originally published in Tin House; Ron Carlson’s “Line from a Movie” published in Zyzzyva and Erin McGraw’s “Step” published in Image.
- September 13, 2013: DIE HUMMERSCHWESTERN, the German translation published by btb of THE SISTERS FROM HARDSCRABBLE BAY [948] by Beverly Jensen continues its summer-long run on the Der Spiegel Buchreport German paperback fiction bestseller list
- August 16, 2013: The film adaptation of WINTER’S TALE [949] by Mark Helprin, starring Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, and Jennifer Connelly and directed by Akiva Goldsman, to be released on February 14, 2014
- August 14, 2013: “The Contest,” [950]a short story by Ron Carlson, in The Atlantic
- August 9, 2013: “Midlist Crisis,” [951] essay by Phillip Lopate, in The New York Times Book Review
- July 23, 2013: Amazon chooses SCHRODER [952] by Amity Gaige as a “Top 20 Pick for the Best Book of the Year So Far”
- June 26, 2013: Keira Knightley set to produce and star in a film based on THE OTHER TYPIST [953] by Suzanne Rindell
- June 13, 2013: “Do Not Adjust Your Screen or Sound,” [954]a Modern Love essay by Heather Sellers, in The New York Times
- June 9, 2013: “The Joke’s on All of Us [955]” by Andrew Hudgins, in The New York Times
- May 20, 2013: The second season of “Longmire [956],” the television series based on the novels by Craig Johnson (Viking), premieres on A&E May 27, 2013
- May 18, 2013: Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton set to star in Life Itself, a film adaptation of HEROIC MEASURES [957] by Jill Ciment
- May 15, 2013: Ethan Shaskan Bumas, English translator for Carlos Fuentes, remembers his friend and teacher in The Daily Beast: “Learning from Carlos Fuentes, One Year on [958]”
- April 11, 2013: Guggenheim Fellowships awarded to Bill Hayes in Creative Arts (General Nonfiction) and Michael Lesy in Humanities (Photography Studies). Announcement [959] via New York Times
- April 7, 2013: “The Slow Death of the American Author [960]” op-ed by Scott Turow, in The New York Times
- January 16, 2013: Agents Emily Forland and Emma Patterson, formerly of the Wendy Weil Agency, join Brandt & Hochman