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December 12, 2024: Timothy Ryback’s TAKEOVER: HITLER’S FINAL RISE TO POWER and Richard Slotkin’s A GREAT DISORDER: NATIONAL MYTH AND THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA appear on Best Books of 2024 list in Foreign Affairs
December 4, 2024: Thomas Grattan, Maria Hummel, and Caroline Leavitt are longlisted for the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Award by the New Literary Project
November 26, 2024: Juhea Kim’s CITY OF NIGHT BIRDS is a Reese Witherspoon December Book Club pick
November 26, 2024: IN TONGUES by Thomas Grattan appears on NYPL’s “2024 Year in Review: New York City Books” list and Them Magazine‘s Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2024 list
November 25, 2024: CONSENT by Jill Cement is included in NPR’s “Best Books of the Year” list
November 18, 2024: Juhea Kim’s essay, “CITY OF NIGHT BIRDS Author Found Freedom in Ballet as an Adult,” in People
November 4, 2024: CITY OF NIGHT BIRDS by Juhea Kim appears on Best Books of November lists in Parade, Book Riot, Ms. Magazine, Town & Country, and Los Angeles Times
October 11, 2024: Jane Alison’s essay, “How Chickens Made Me Rethink Infertility,” on Oprah Daily
October 5, 2024: “To Understand Trump vs. Harris, You Must Understand These American Myths,” an op-ed by Richard Slotkin, in The New York Times
October 1, 2024: Taisia Kitaiskaia’s story, “Engelond,” first published in VQR, is included in BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF 2024, and Kristen Iskandrian’s story, “Quantum Voicemail,” first published on Electric Literature, is on the Distinguished Stories list
September 5, 2024: Cover for Kate Folk’s upcoming novel, SKY DADDY, is revealed on Electric Literature
September 4, 2024: “Joan Aiken’s Centenary: A Life in Stories,” which profiles the acclaimed author of THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE, and many other beloved novels
August 27, 2024: Alexandra Marshall’s essay, “Rejecting Denial and Embracing Sorrow: On Writing the Story of a Husband’s Suicide,” on Lit Hub
August 19, 2024: J.D. Landis’s essay, “The Rock in the Gut,” on VQR Online
August 16, 2024: “Alejandro Puyana Explores the Humanity and Hardship of Venezuela,” a profile of the author and his debut novel, FREEDOM IS A FEAST, in The Austin Chronicle
July 23, 2024: Thomas Grattan’s IN TONGUES appears on NBC News’s “The Beachworthy Books Lovers of Queer Lit Are Devouring This Summer” list
June 6, 2024: Tori Malcangio’s essay, “Racing,” wins the Editor’s Choice Award from CRAFT
June 1, 2024: “Craig Johnson Wants to Give Longmire Fans the ‘Best 3 Minutes’ He Can,” is this week’s New York Times’ By the Book for his new novel, FIRST FROST
May 31, 2024: Flynn Berry’s “Novelist Flynn Berry Grocery Shops for Her Characters“, is this week’s Grub Street Diet for New York Magazine
May 1, 2024: Juhea Kim’s CITY OF NIGHT BIRDS and Kristin Koval’s PENITENCE are included on Publisher’s Lunch/ABA’s Buzz Books panel for Fall/Winter 2024
April 20, 2024: A GREAT DISORDER by Richard Slotkin is a Next Big Idea Club selection
April 10, 2024: Based on the bestselling novel by Scott Turow, PRESUMED INNOCENT 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 by Joan Aiken was nominated for a Premio Andersen book production prize at the Bologna Book Fair
April 4, 2024: Thomas Grattan’s IN TONGUES is included in Bloomberg’s Best Spring Books list and Interview Magazine’s “10 Queer Books I’m Packing in My Bottega Veneta Andiamo Bag” list
April 3, 2024: HOW TO READ A BOOK by Monica Wood is an Indie Next pick for May
March 9, 2024: Craig Johnson’s THE LONGMIRE DEFENSE has won Best Contemporary Western Novel Award by the Western Writers of America
March 1, 2024: SORA’S SEASHELLS by Helena Ku Rhee receives a 2024 Ezra Jack Keats Award Honor
February 21, 2024: Elizabeth McKenzie’s DOG OF THE NORTH is a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award
January 9, 2024: IN TONGUES by Thomas Grattan appears on Electric Literature’s “42 Queer Books You Need to Read in 2024” list
January 8, 2024: Tori Malcangio’s “Invasive Species” wins the 2023 Missouri Review’s Editor Prize in Fiction
November 20, 2023: WELLNESS by Nathan Hill and THE MUSEUM OF FAILURES by Thrity Umrigar are included on NPR’s “2023 Books We Love” list
November 16, 2023: Thrity Umrigar’s THE MUSEUM OF FAILURES appears on BookRiot’s Best Books of 2023 list
November 14, 2023: BEYOND THAT, THE SEA by Laura Spence-Ash is included on Amazon’s Best Debut of 2023 list and Nathan Hill’s WELLNESS is included on Amazon’s Top 20 Books of the Year list
November 9, 2023: Elizabeth Crook wins the 2023 Texas Writer Award at the Texas Book Festival
October 5, 2023: Scott Turow wins the 2023 Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame
September 19, 2023: Oprah Winfrey chooses WELLNESS by Nathan Hill as her next Oprah Book Club pick
September 5, 2023: WELLNESS by Nathan Hill appears on the “New Books to Read in September” list in The New York Times and is a Best of the Month pick from Amazon
September 4, 2023: Anne Valente’s story, “Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit,” appears in The American Scholar
May 26, 2023: Laura Spence-Ash’s BEYOND THAT, THE SEA is on the New York Times’ Summer Reading list
May 11, 2023: Helena Ku Rhee’s ROSA’S SONG is named the 2023 Best Children’s Book of the Year by the Children’s Book Council
May 4, 2023: BIG SHADOW by Marta Balcewicz is on the “Best Books of the Month” list in Vol. 1 Brooklyn
April 27, 2023: “On Writing (and Rewriting) Illness,” a piece by Elizabeth Benedict on The Millions
March 28, 2023: BEYOND THAT, THE SEA by Laura Spence-Ash is a Good Morning America Buzz Pick
March 25, 2023: “I Am Haunted by What I Have Seen at Great Salt Lake,” an op-ed by Terry Temptest Williams in The New York Times
March 22, 2023: THE DOG OF THE NORTH by Elizabeth McKenzie is included on Sloane Crosley’s “Best Books for Spring 2023” list in Departures
March 20, 2023: Laura Spence-Ash’s BEYOND THAT, THE SEA is a Publisher’s Weekly Book of the Week
March 18, 2023: Robert D. Kaplan’s “What I Failed to Understand About Saddam’s Iraq—and American Power,” appears in Wall Street Journal
March 13, 2023: THE DOG OF THE NORTH by Elizabeth McKenzie is on the longlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023 and The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 2023
March 10, 2023: OUT THERE by Kate Folk is on the longlist for the California Book Awards 2023 for First Fiction
February 24, 2023: Philip Lopate is elected to the American Academy of Arts & Letters
February 23, 2023: Tamara Dean’s story, “Wrecker,” appears in One Story
January 26, 2023: DESERT GETAWAY by Michael Craft is a 2023 Edgar Nominee for the Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial award
January 18, 2023: Elizabeth McKenzie’s THE DOG OF THE NORTH and Dominic Smith’s RETURN TO VALETTO appear on Publisher Marketplace’s Spring/Summer Fiction Preview as “Highly Anticipated”
January 15, 2023: THE DOG OF THE NORTH by Elizabeth McKenzie appears on Lit Hub’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2023” list
January 6, 2023: Laura Spence-Ash’s BEYOND THAT, THE SEA appears on Publisher Weekly’s “Writers to Watch in Spring 2023” list
December 19, 2022: Kate Folk’s OUT THERE appears on Jezebel’s “10 Best Books That Came Out This Year” list and “Best Story Collections of 2022” list in Chicago Review of Books
December 13, 2022: END OF THE WORLD HOUSE by Adrienne Celt is included in Glamour’s Best Books of the 2022 list
December 9, 2022: Natalie Garrett’s EAT JOY appears on Orion Magazine and Apartment Therapy’s holiday gift guides and THE LONELY STORIES appears on The Millions’ “Year in Reading” list and BOMB Magazine’s Small Press Gift Guide
November 26, 2022: SUSPECT by Scott Turow is included on the Best Thrillers of the Year list in the Sunday Times
November 23, 2022: “Quantum Voicemail,” a story by Kristen Iskandrian, appears on Electric Literature
November 22, 2022: “What It’s Like to Get Hit By an SUV,” an essay by Tamara Dean in The Guardian
November 17, 2022: Heather Gudenkauf’s THE OVERNIGHT GUEST is a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards in Mystery/Thriller
November 15, 2022: IN THE HOUSES OF THE DEAD by Terry Alford appears on Amazon’s Best History Books of 2022 list, and THE OVERNIGHT GUEST by Heather Gudenkauf appears on Amazon’s Best Mystery/Thrillers of 2022 list as well as the Top 100 list
November 14, 2022: Andrea Barrett’s NATURAL HISTORY and Kate Folk’s OUT THERE are included on Kirkus’s Best Fiction Books of the Year list and their Best Story Collections of the Year list, and OUT THERE is included on their Best Debuts of the Year list
October 28, 2022: Bill Hayes’s SWEAT, Robert D. Kaplan’s ADRIATIC, and Katharine Blake’s THE UNINNOCENT are included in The New Yorker’s “Best Books of 2022” list
October 12, 2022: Taisia Kitaiskaia’s story, “Work Wife,” in Conjunctions
September 30, 2022: “Hed and Dek Pitches for a Magazine for Grooms, Written in the Style of a Magazine for Brides,” a piece by Devorah Blachor in The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts
September 21, 2022: Lara Bazelon’s “Adnan Syed’s Accidental Justice,” in New York Magazine
September 16, 2022: “As a Child, Andrea Barrett Was Drawn to Books for Grown-Ups,” a profile of the author in The New York Times’ By the Book column
September 15, 2022: BEASTS OF A LITTLE LAND is a finalist for the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
September 15, 2022: “Where to Start with Dark Academia Fiction,” an essay by Joanna Margaret in CrimeReads
August 31, 2022: “If Selfies Came with Automatic Transcripts of Our Thoughts,” a comic by Adrienne Celt, in The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts
August 30, 2022: END OF THE WORLD HOUSE by Adrienne Celt is included in Harper Bazaar’s “Best, Buzziest Books of 2022” list
July 12, 2022: Tamara Dean’s “‘Thank The Lord, I Have Been Relieved’: The Truth About the History of Abortion in America,” in The Guardian
July 7, 2022: “Remember When We Were Holy,” a story by Tori Malcangio on Conjunctions
July 6, 2022: Amazon includes Heather Gudenkauf’s THE OVERNIGHT GUEST on their Best Mystery & Thrillers of 2022 so far list, as well as Terry Alford’s IN THE HOUSES OF THEIR DEAD and Robert D. Kaplan’s ADRIATIC on their Best History Books of 2022 so far list
June 29, 2022: “Adrienne Celt asks, ‘What Makes Something Meaningful?’”, an interview with the author about END OF THE WORLD HOUSE, on Catapult
June 27, 2022: “Neighborhood Dogs” by Taisia Kitaiskaia and a Letter to the Editor 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,” a Letter of Recommendation in The New York Times Magazine
June 13, 2022: “Confessions of a 1980s Flight Attendant,” a profile of Ann Hood and her book, FLY GIRL, on CNN.com
May 18, 2022: END OF THE WORLD HOUSE by Adrienne Celt is included on Business Insider’s “Best Science Fiction Novels of the Year” list
May 13, 2022: Kristen Iskandrian is awarded a Sustainable Arts Foundation grant
May 10, 2022: Lara Bazelon’s excerpt from AMBITIOUS LIKE A MOTHER, “The Knife’s Edge That Ambitious Women Must Navigate” appears in Lit Hub, her op-ed, “Don’t Worry Working Moms: Your Kids are Going to be Alright” in the Globe & Mail, and a profile of the book in the New York Post
May 5, 2022: Adrienne Celt’s END OF THE WORLD HOUSE is a Best New Spring Books pick on Shondaland and Bustle
May 4, 2022: BLOOMSBURY GIRLS by Natalie Jenner is a June Indie Next pick
April 29, 2022: “For My Korean-Black Family, the Aftermath of the L.A. Riots Cut Deep,” 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,” in Lit Hub, and the author’s END OF THE WORLD HOUSE is included in their list of “Books to Keep an Eye Out For This Week” list, also on Lit Hub
April 18, 2022: END OF THE WORLD HOUSE by Adrienne Celt appears on Bustle’s “Most Anticipated Books of April” list and on NYPL’s “Time Loop Novels for Fans of Russian Doll” list
April 8, 2022: Kate Folk’s OUT THERE is the Boston Globe’s “Pick of the Week”
April 5, 2022: Lara Bazelon’s “The End of Mom Guilt,” an excerpt from AMBITIOUS LIKE A MOTHER, in The Atlantic
April 4, 2022: “Terry Alford Explores History’s Haunted Houses,” a profile of the author and his upcoming book, IN THE HOUSES OF THEIR DEAD, in Publisher’s Weekly
April 1, 2022: THE SWEETNESS OF WATER by Nathan Harris is shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and appears on the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award long list
March 29, 2022: Kate Folk’s “On Notes to a Future Self: How Journaling Helps Me Write,” an essay in Lit Hub
March 29, 2022: END OF THE WORLD HOUSE by Adrienne Celt appears on Lit Hub’s list of “April’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books” and Kate Folk’s OUT THERE appears on Lit Hub’s list of “New Books Coming to an Indie Near You”
March 23, 2022: “The Moist House” by Kate Folk is excerpted from her upcoming collection, OUT THERE, in Electric Literature, “Kate Folk Believes the Weird and Eerie Transcends Genre,” an interview with the author, in Catapult, and “Shuttling Down the Side Streets of the Weird,” another interview with Kate Folk in Chicago Review of Books
March 22, 2022: Devorah Blachor publishes “Don’t Say Straight” in McSweeney’s, “How To Resolve Conflicts with Your Crypto Landlord,” in The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts, and “This Is How An Iconic 1980s Ad Doomed Women” in the Los Angeles Review of Books
March 17, 2022: END OF THE WORLD HOUSE 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
March 8, 2022: Adrienne Celt’s END OF THE WORLD HOUSE is included on Town & Country’s Best Spring Books of 2022 list and Parade’s “Books We’re Loving This Spring” list
March 7, 2022: OUT THERE by Kate Folk appears on io9’s “Most Anticipated SFF Books in March” list
March 4, 2022: Tamara Dean’s piece, “Safer Than Childbirth,” in The American Scholar
February 26, 2022: “Seeking a Father for My Child (Relationship Optional),” a Modern Love essay by Katharine Dion in The New York Times
February 25, 2022: SWEAT: A History of Exercise by Bill Hayes appears on the “Best Nonfiction Books of the Year” list in Esquire
February 23, 2022: Thomas Grattan’s THE RECENT EAST is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize’s Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
February 21, 2022: Kate Folk’s OUT THERE is included in a “Books to Read in March” list on A.V. Club
February 18, 2022: “Can Prioritizing Your Career Be Good for Your Kids ?,” an interview with Lara Bazelon about her upcoming book, AMBITIOUS LIKE A MOTHER, in The Boston Globe
February 14, 2022: Adrienne Celt’s comics, “Valentines for People You’re Committed to Destroying in Secret” appear on Hobart After Dark
February 14, 2022: Kate Folk reads her story, “Out There,” the title story in her upcoming collection, for the New Yorker’s Writer’s Room podcast
February 9, 2022: The National Book Foundation awarded Rachel Pastan’s IN THE FIELD with an inaugural Science & Literature Award
February 1, 2022: THE OVERNIGHT GUEST by Heather Gudenkauf is a February Barnes & Noble Mystery/Thriller pick
January 13, 2022: Kate Folk’s OUT THERE and Adrienne Celt’s END OF THE WORLD HOUSE are included in The Millions’ “Most Anticipated: The Great First Half Book Preview“
January 12, 2022: HONOR by Thrity Umrigar and END OF THE WORLD HOUSE by Adrienne Celt appear on Book Riot’s Most Anticipated Books of 2022 list
January 10, 2022: Kate Folk’s OUT THERE is part of Publisher’s Weekly “Writers to Watch Spring 2022” feature
January 5, 2022: SWEAT by Bill Hayes and END OF THE WORLD HOUSE by Adrienne Celt are included on Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2022 list
January 4, 2022: Thrity Umrigar’s HONOR is a Reese Witherspoon January Book Club pick
January 3, 2022: END OF THE WORLD HOUSE by Adrienne Celt is included on Harper’s Bazaar, Bustle, Glamour, Living North, Veranda, Chicago Review of Books, PopSugar and Good Housekeeping’s Most Anticipated Books of 2022 lists
January 1, 2022: “Sometimes You Have to Hate Exercise Before You Can Love It Again,” an op-ed by Bill Hayes, in The New York Times
December 15, 2021: Thomas Grattan’s THE RECENT EAST is longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
December 7, 2021: BEASTS OF A LITTLE LAND by Juhea Kim is included on Best of the Month lists for The Washington Post, USA Today, E! Online, Vulture, Popsugar, Bustle, The Millions, and Amazon, is a holiday book pick for Good Morning America, and is one of Real Simple’s Best Book of 2021
November 19, 2021: Flynn Berry’s NORTHERN SPY appears on the “Best Thrillers of 2021” lists for The Washington Post and The New York Times
November 17, 2021: THE SWEETNESS OF WATER by Nathan Harris wins the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, is included on Oprah Daily’s Best Fiction Books of 2021 list, and appears on The Washington Post’s “50 Notable Works of Fiction for 2021” list
October 28, 2021: A SPLENDID INTELLIGENCE by Cathy Curtis is included on the “16 New Books Coming in November” list in The New York Times
October 25, 2021: Juhea Kim’s BEASTS OF A LITTLE LAND appears on Harper Bazaar’s “Books To Read in 2021” list and Buzzfeed’s “The Best Historical Fiction Books You’re Going to Want to Read This Fall” list
October 22, 2021: Lindsey Drager’s THE ARCHIVE OF ALTERNATE ENDINGS wins Annual Bard Fiction Prize
September 22, 2021: THE STRATEGY OF DENIAL by Elbridge A. Colby is included in The Wall Street Journal’s “Best Books of September” list
September 21, 2021: Nathan Harris, author of THE SWEETNESS OF WATER, is a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree
September 20, 2021: BEASTS OF A LITTLE LAND by Juhea Kim is included in USA Today and Buzzfeed’s Most Anticipated Fall Books lists
July 9, 2021: THE SWEETNESS OF WATER by Nathan Harris is included on Former President Obama’s Summer Reading list and is on the longlist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
July 6, 2021: Caroline Leavitt’s WITH OR WITHOUT YOU appears in People’s “Best New Books” picks
June 30, 2021: “In a World Without Sushi,” an essay by Juhea Kim, in Guernica
June 28, 2021: Susan Heeger’s story, “Houseboat,” appears in New England Review
June 22, 2021: “Is Your Idea Better Suited for a Novel or a Short Story?” a piece by Adrienne Celt, in Catapult
June 21, 2021: Andrew Brininstool is a Finalist for the PEN/Writing for Justice fellowship
June 15, 2021: Nathan Harris’s THE SWEETNESS OF WATER is an Oprah Book Club pick and a July Indie Next pick
June 2, 2021: Kyle Beachy’s THE MOST FUN THING appears on Lit Hub’s “Nonfiction Books You Should Read This Summer”
June 1, 2021: THE RECENT EAST by Thomas Grattan is included on “The Best New Reads for Pride Month 2021” in Harper’s Bazaar
May 29, 2021: Lara Bazelon’s A GOOD MOTHER appears in The New York Times Book Review’s “Summer Reading” issue
May 11, 2021: “Female Public Defenders are Unsung Heroes: It is Long Past Time to Change That,” an essay by Lara Bazelon in CrimeReads
May 6, 2021: Tamara Dean’s essay, “Slow Blues,” first published in The American Scholar, is a finalist for the National Magazine Awards
April 28, 2021: BEASTS OF A LITTLE LAND by Juhea Kim is a Buzz Books Editor’s Panel pick
April 20, 2021: Flynn Berry’s NORTHERN SPY is a Reese Witherspoon April Book Club pick and the author is interviewed in Entertainment Weekly
April 19, 2021: Thomas Grattan, author of THE RECENT EAST, is interviewed in Entertainment Weekly: “What’s in a Page: Author of THE RECENT EAST started in a subway car“
April 17, 2021: “I Have Read Thousands of Resumes, and I Have Some Advice,” an op-ed in The New York Times by A-J Aronstein
March 22, 2021: “Your Only Job Is to Ignore That Phone,” a story by Hannah Gersen, on Electric Literature
March 17, 2021: Lara Bazelon’s A GOOD MOTHER and Nathan Harris’s THE SWEETNESS OF WATER appear on Library Journal’s Best Debut Novels of Spring/Summer list
March 15, 2021: “What Does Freedom Mean? A Debut Novel Is Asking,” a profile of Nathan Harris’s THE SWEETNESS OF WATER in Publisher’s Weekly
March 10, 2021: From The New York Times: “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 is Best Book of the Month in Vulture, O Magazine, and Amazon
February 16, 2021: “What Makes a Murderer?” by Lara Bazelon in The Atlantic and an interview with and profile of the author in The Sun
January 28, 2021: Jennifer Tseng’s story, “Cat’s-Eye,” in American Short Fiction
January 27, 2021: “The Art of the Cover Letter” by A-J Aronstein appears on Paris Review Daily
January 19, 2021: THE PAPER KINGDOM by Helena Ku Rhee is a finalist for a 2020 Cybils Award
January 14, 2021: Laura Brodie’s piece, “Myths of Chivalry,” in MoMA Magazine
January 8, 2021: THE RECENT EAST by Thomas Grattan appears on Most Anticipated Books of 2021 lists in O Magazine, Electric Literature, Refinery29, The Millions, The Advocate, and Redbook, and is included in Publishers Weekly’s Spring 2021 Announcements
January 6, 2021: PICKARD COUNTY ATLAS by Chris Harding Thronton on Lit Hub and CrimeReads’ “Most Anticipated Books of 2021” lists
January 5, 2021: Flynn Berry’s NORTHERN SPY is a Publisher’s Marketplace Winter Institute Buzz Book and appears on CrimeReads’ “Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2021” list
January 3, 2021: Susan Heeger’s story, “Besame Mucho,” in december
December 12, 2020: Penelope Rowlands’s essay, “My Fax Friends,” in The American Scholar
December 3, 2020: “Anna, Dressed in White and Blue,” a story by Mark Helprin, in National Review
December 1, 2020: Susan Heeger’s essay, “Fire Season,” in Los Angeles Magazine
November 27, 2020: THE PAPER KINGDOM by Helena Ku Rhee is included on Parents Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage, Los Angeles Public Library, and Amazon’s Best Children’s Books of 2020 lists, and is a NPR Best Book of the Year and Staff Pick
October 30, 2020: David Hopen’s THE ORCHARD is included on The New York Times’s “16 New Books to Watch this November” list and Entertainment Weekly’s “The Biggest and Best Books of Fall 2020” list
September 26, 2020: “Amy Coney Barrett Is No Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” 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,” in The Independent
September 10, 2020: “Food and Covid-19: I Am Going to Eat the World,” an essay by Jesse Lee Kercheval, in Entropy
September 8, 2020: A-J Arnstein’s piece, “Elsie Conick: A Biography in Fragments,” in Guernica
August 17, 2020: “What Does New Love Look Like in a Pandemic,” an excerpt from Bill Hayes’s HOW WE LIVE NOW, in Medium
August 12, 2020: TRUE STORY by Kate Reed Petty is included on Buzzfeed’s Summer Reading list, Entertainment Weekly’s Best Books of the Summer list, NJ.com’s Books to Read this Summer and Fall list
August 5, 2020: Ellen Feldman’s “The Jews Who Fought for Nazi Germany,” in Tablet Magazine
August 4, 2020: Michael Kardos’s story, “The Wish,” appears in One Story
July 31, 2020: “My Novel’s Heroine is Doing Better in the Publishing World Than I Did,” 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,” on Electric Lit
July 22, 2020: “A Woman’s Life, in 10 Scenes,” a story by Juhea Jim, on Joyland
July 22, 2020: TRUE STORY by Kate Reed Petty appears on the Center for Fiction’s 2020 First Novel Prize longlist
July 20, 2020: “How to Write a Timely Novel in a World That Won’t Stop Changing,” an essay by David James Poissant, on Lit Hub
July 16, 2020: “Between the Lines,” an essay by Nilo Tabrizy, on Guernica
June 25, 2020: Ian Bassingthwaighte’s story, “The Crucible,” appears in One Story
May 31, 2020: “Half a Loaf,” by Jesse Lee Kercheval, in The Sewanee Review for their Coronavirus Correspondence series
May 21, 2020: TRUE STORY by Kate Reed Petty is included on Buzzfeed’s Summer Reading list and Entertainment Weekly’s Best Books of the Summer list
May 21, 2020: Heather Gudenkauf’s THIS IS HOW I LIED appears on The New York Times’ Summer Reading roundup
May 20, 2020: Jonathan Fineberg’s essay, “Memory in the Year of Covid,” in the LARB’s China Channel
May 12, 2020: Cheryl Sucher’s essay, “My Mother Lived for Six Years on a Ventilator,” in Forward
May 11, 2020: Christine Schutt 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,” appears on Guernica
May 8, 2020: LAKE LIFE by David James Poissant is a Publisher’s Weekly Summer Reading Pick
May 5, 2020: Nathan Hill’s essay, “Postcard from the Pandemic: A Solid Little Feeling,” appears on Poets & Writers online
May 4, 2020: ELDERHOOD by Louise Aronson is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
May 1, 2020: Heather Gudenkauf’s THIS IS HOW I LIED and Scott Turow’s THE LAST TRIAL are Amazon Best Books of the Month for Thriller, Mystery and Suspense
May 1, 2020: THE JANE AUSTEN SOCIETY by Natalie Jenner is a Featured Debut and a Top Ten Book of the Month for Amazon
April 29, 2020: Kristen Iskandrian’s story, “Alabama Funeral,” appears in Zyzzyva
April 15, 2020: Scott Turow’s op-ed, “There’s No Better Time to Bring Back the Pocket Handkerchief,” in The Washington Post
March 30, 2020: “One Sure Cure for the Quarantine Blues: A Family Pillow Fight,” an op-ed by Lara Bazelon in The Washington Post
March 27, 2020: Louise Aronson’s “‘COVID-19 Kills Only Old People. Only?” in The New York Times, “Ageism is Making the Pandemic Worse” in The Atlantic, and “Coronavirus Reveals Just How Little Compassion We Have for Older People,” in Vox
March 26, 2020: “Walking in the City Before the Bookstores Closed,” an essay by Bill Hayes in Lit Hub
March 20, 2020: THE GENTLEMAN by Forrest Leo is included on Men’s Health’s Quarantine Reading list
March 16, 2020: Kate Folk’s story, “Out There” appears in The New Yorker
March 8, 2020: “How Old is Too Old to Work,” a profile of Louise Aronson on New Yorker online
February 28, 2020: “My Korean Immigrant Parents Taught Me to Pursue My Own Version of the American Dream,” an op-ed by Helena Ku Rhee in the LA Times
February 13, 2020: Helena Ku Rhee’s THE PAPER KINGDOM is a Spring Kids’ Indie Next pick and is included on BookPage’s Most Anticipated Children’s Books of 2020 list
December 24, 2019: MEANDER, SPIRAL, EXPLODE: DESIGN AND PATTERN IN NARRATIVE by Jane Alison is included in The Atlantic’s Best Books of 2019 list
December 10, 2019: Natalie Eve Garrett’s EAT JOY is included on Marta Stewart’s Best Cookbooks of 2019 list
December 3, 2019: Jill Ciment’s THE BODY IN QUESTION is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year
December 2, 2019: EAT JOY by Natalie Eve Garrett appears on Good Housekeeping, The Rumpus, and Buzzfeed’s holiday gift guides
November 27, 2019: ELDERHOOD by Louise Aronson is included on Chicago Public Library’s Best Books of the Year list
November 22, 2019: Natalie Eve Garrett’s EAT JOY is a November Indie Next pick and an Indie Next List Holiday Gift Guide pick
October 22, 2019: MEANDER, SPIRAL, EXPLODE: DESIGN AND PATTERN IN NARRATIVE by Jane Alison is on Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 list
October 3, 2019: Terry Tempest Williams’ EROSION: ESSAYS OF UNDOING is on Newsweek’s “10 Books to Curl Up With This Fall” list, is a Washington Post Book of the Month pick, a Kirkus Nonfiction Book of the Season pick, and appears on Chicago Tribune‘s “Books You Need to Read Now” list
October 2, 2019: Natalie Eve Garrett’s EAT JOY is included on The Millions “Most Anticipated (this month)” list, Garden and Gun’s “October 2019 Reading List,” Taste of Home’s “10 New Fall Cookbooks You Need to Own” list, Hello Giggle’s “The 13 best new books to read in October” list and PureWow’s “13 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in October” list
October 1, 2019: ELDERHOOD is longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
September 30, 2019: Lara Bazelon’s “What 2 Deep-Dive Books on Kavanaugh Taught Me About Truth in the Trump Era” on Politico
September 22, 2019: Goldie Goldbloom’s ON DIVISION is chosen for San Francisco’s One Bay One Book program for 2019-2020
September 19, 2019: “The Next Day and the Days Ever After,” 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,” in the Chicago Review of Books, excerpted from her new collection, EROSION
July 29, 2019: Juhea Kim’s story, “The Color of the Year 2022,” appears on Catapult
July 22, 2019: “Meet the South Dakota Rancher Taking on Climate Change—One Bison Steak at a Time,” a profile of Dan O’Brien in Men’s Journal
July 1, 2019: “The Biggest House on Earth” by Choi In-Ho, translated by Juhea Kim, on Granta
June 30, 2019: Cindy Pon’s story, “Like Magic,” 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,” an op-ed by Lara Bazelon in the New York Times
June 27, 2019: PARIS IN THE PRESENT TENSE by Mark Helprin is included on The Washington Post’s “Books to Read for the Ages” list
June 25, 2019: Louise Aronson’s “The Many Ways We Create ‘The Other,'” an excerpt from ELDERHOOD, on Lit Hub
June 24, 2019: Ann Tashi Slater’s “Summer in Toyko: Rain Women, Cicadas, and visits from the Dead” appears on Catapult
June 11, 2019: ELDERHOOD by Louise Aronson is a Publisher’s Weekly Pick of the Week and the author appears on “CBS This Morning” and NPR’s “Fresh Air”
June 7, 2019: Jennifer Traig’s ACT NATURAL is included on Real Simple’s Best Books of 2019 So Far list
June 6, 2019: Louise Aronson’s ELDERHOOD is included in AARP Magazine’s “Big Summer Reads” roundup and a Q&A with the author appears on Salon
June 5, 2019: RUBYFRUIT JUNGLE by Rita Mae Brown appears on O Magazine’s “50 Best LBGTQ Books Of All Time” list
June 4, 2019: PARIS IN THE PRESENT TENSE by Mark Helprin is included in the The New York Times’ “Summer Books Preview”
June 3, 2019: Adrienne Celt’s INVITATION TO A BONFIRE appears on the June Indie Next list
May 18, 2019: Cindy Pon’s RUSE appears on Buzzfeed’s “YA Books to Devour During Asian Pacific American Heritage Month” list
May 2, 2019: “Later, in Filmmaking II,” by Dave Madden in The Kenyon Review
April 29, 2019: “Is Aging a Disease,” an interview with Louise Aronson about her upcoming book, ELDERHOOD, in Publisher’s Weekly
April 5, 2019: Jane Stanton Hitchcock’s “A Crime Writer’s Guide to Poker Obsession,” on CrimeReads
March 27, 2019: Jane Alison’s “Beyond the Narrative Arc,” on Lit Hub, excerpted from MEANDER, SPIRAL, EXPLODE
March 26, 2019: “A Crime in Public View: How William Barr Pardoned Donald Trump” by Scott Turow in Vanity Fair
March 25, 2019: “Meet the Host of the Podcast for People with No Attention Span,” a profile of Jason Porter on Lit Hub
March 19, 2019: “The Bone Ward,” a story by Kate Folk, appears in McSweeney’s
March 14, 2019: Kate Folk is awarded a Stegner Fellowship in Fiction for 2019-2021
March 14, 2019: An essay by Jennifer Kabat, “Ghostlands,” appears on Granta
March 13, 2019: Emily Bernard’s BLACK IS THE BODY is profiled in People and her piece, “In The Source of Self-Regard, Toni Morrison Reveals How Her Greatest Novels Came to Be,” appears in the March issue of O Magazine
February 26, 2019: THIS IS NOT A LOVE SONG by Brendan Mathews is on Vogue’s “4 New Books We’re Loving” list
February 12, 2019: “On Youth Suicide in Iowa,” by Heather Gudenkauf, in Salon
February 7, 2019: A DOUBLE LIFE by Flynn Berry is Bustle’s February Book Club pick, chosen by Paula Hawkins
January 30, 2019: Emily Bernard’s essay, “But What Will Your Daughters Think,” in Lit Hub
January 18, 2019: “Kamala Harris Was Not a ‘Progressive Prosecutor,'” an op-ed by Lara Bazelon in The New York Times
January 17, 2019: An excerpt of STILL IN LOVE by Michael Downing appears on Lit Hub
January 14, 2019: Jennifer Traig’s “The Making of the Picky Eater,” in The Wall Street Journal, and “A Brief History of Children’s Books: Nasty, Brutish, and Short,” in Lit Hub, both excerpts from her book, ACT NATURAL
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,” on McSweeney’s
December 17, 2018: “Happy Bad Choices Day,” an essay by Jennifer Traig, is on Slate
December 15, 2018: Jennifer Traig’s ACT NATURAL appears on Real Simple’s Best Books of 2019 (So Far) list
December 14, 2018: INVITATION TO A BONFIRE by Adrienne Celt is included on Electric Literature’s Best Novels of 2018 list
December 10, 2018: Devorah Blachor’s “Terms and Conditions for Telling Me About Your Day,” an op-ed in The New York Times
December 7, 2018: BLACK IS THE BODY by Emily Bernard is included on O Magazine’s “25 Most Anticipated Books of 2019 So Far” list
December 5, 2018: Lara Bazelon’s “I’m a Democrat and a Feminist. And I Support Betsy DeVos’s Title IX Reforms,” an op-ed in The New York Times
November 30, 2018: THE DEPENDENTS by Katharine Dion, KITCHEN YARNS by Ann Hood, ULTRAVIOLET by Suzanne Matson, BODY FULL OF STARS by Molly Caro May, and WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT CHARLIE OUTLAW by Leah Stewart appear on Real Simple’s Best Books of 2018 list
November 29, 2018: Lara Bazelon’s “The Rising Tide of Wrongful Convictions,” an essay in Longreads, and “Incarcerating the Innocent,” an essay in The American Scholar, both adapted from RECTIFY
November 27, 2018: Ann Hood’s KITCHEN YARNS: NOTES ON LIFE, LOVE AND FOOD on The Washington Post’s “10 Books to Read in December” list
November 27, 2018: SCRIBE by Alyson Hagy and LISTEN TO THE MARRIAGE by John Jay Osborn are on NPR’s 2018 Great Reads list
November 26, 2018: INVITATION TO A BONFIRE by Adrienne Celt is included in “These Novels Prove That Women Make Fascinating Serial Killers Too” on Buzzfeed
November 21, 2018: Ruth Gruber’s photos appear in “We’ll Meet Again: Surviving the Holocaust” on PBS
November 20, 2018: Christine Schutt’s PURE HOLLYWOOD is on The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2018 list
November 19, 2018: “People Like Me,” an essay by Emily Bernard excerpted from her forthcoming book, BLACK IS THE BODY, in the December issue of Harper’s
November 12, 2018: THE LAKE ON FIRE by Rosellen Brown and THE STRANGER GAME by Peter Gadol appear on Kirkus’ Best Fiction of 2018 list
November 11, 2018: Lara Bazelon’s “This Is What Wrongful Conviction Does to a Family,” an excerpt from RECTIFY, in Politico
November 8, 2018: THREE JUNES by Julia Glass is on Lit Hub’s “20 Debut Works of Fiction by Women Over 40” list
October 29, 2018: “In LISTEN TO THE MARRIAGE, A Case For Spending Time in the Counselor’s Office,” an interview with John Jay Osborn, on NPR
October 18, 2018: “The Basement,” 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” and “The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction” both on Slate
October 11, 2018: RECTIFY by Lara Bazelon is included on Bitch Media’s “15 Nonfiction Books Feminists Should Read This Fall” list
October 9, 2018: “The World’s Most Outstanding Person” by Susan Heeger is in the Fall issue of The Maine Review
October 3, 2018: Alyson Hagy’s SCRIBE is Belletrist’s October book pick
October 3, 2018: Lara Bazelon’s piece, “The Kavanugh Hearings Have Demonstrated How Desperately America Needs Restorative Justice,” on Slate
October 2, 2018: INVITATION TO A BONFIRE by Adrienne Celt and A HOUSE AMONG THE TREES by Julia Glass are included on the WNBA’s 2018 Great Group Reads list
September 28, 2018: Lara Bazelon’s “Supreme Fiasco: Did the Kavanaugh Drama Just Break the Senate?” in Politico
September 24, 2018: “Man Up, Grassley. Question Blasey Ford Yourself,” an op-ed by Lara Bazelon in The New York Times
September 24, 2018: Adrienne Sharp’s “I Remember You” on Tin House’s Open Bar
September 17, 2018: Alyson Hagy’s SCRIBE and Melanie Hobson’s SUMMER CANNIBALS appear on Vanity Fair’s Best Fall Fiction list
September 7, 2018: THE DEPENDENTS by Katharine Dion and ULTRAVIOLET by Suzanne Matson are included on Real Simple’s Best Books of 2018 So Far list
September 5, 2018: Suzanne Matson’s ULTRAVOILET appears on September lists in Nylon and Vol. 1 Brooklyn
August 29, 2018: EARNING THE ROCKIES by Robert D. Kaplan is PBS NewsHour’s September book club pick
August 22, 2018: Ann Tashi Slater’s “Teatime in Darjeeling” in Lit Hub, originally published by Tin House
August 16, 2018: “Bending Towards Instinct: Q&A with INVITATION TO A BONFIRE author Adrienne Celt,” in Zyzzyva
August 2, 2018: Maria Hummel’s STILL LIVES is Reese Witherspoon’s August Book Club pick
August 1, 2018: A DOUBLE LIFE by Flynn Berry appears on Bustle’s weekly reading list and is excerpted in Parade Magazine
July 30, 2018: Lara Bazelon’s “What It Takes to Be a Trial Lawyer If You’re Not a Man,” in The Atlantic
July 27, 2018: Flynn Berry’s “The Murder That Exposed the British Class System,” in CrimeReads
July 26, 2018: “Letter of Recommendation: Dead Malls,” an essay by Kate Folk, in The New York Times Magazine
July 20, 2018: A DOUBLE LIFE by Flynn Berry on BBC‘s “10 Smartest Beach Reads of 2018” list
July 19, 2018: Kent Wascom’s essay, “Series, Saga, Cycle… ” in Lit Hub
July 16, 2018: Flynn Berry’s A DOUBLE LIFE 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 by Adrienne Celt is a New York Post Book of the Week
July 3, 2018: Flynn Berry’s A DOUBLE LIFE is on Good Housekeeping’s Best Summer Books list and CrimeRead’s Best Books of July list
June 30, 2018: THE DEPENDENTS is a New York Post Book of the Week
June 29, 2018: I’M NOT MISSING by Carrie Fountain is on Bustle’s Best July YA Novels list
June 25, 2018: Katharine Dion’s THE DEPENDENTS is on Real Simple’s Best Books of 2018 (So Far) list, a New York Post weekly “must-read,” and People Magazine’s Book of the Week
June 22, 2018: INVITATION TO A BONFIRE by Adrienne Celt is a Book Riot Most Anticipated Summer Read
June 14, 2018: THE DEPENDENTS by Katharine Dion is excerpted in Poets & Writers and the author is interviewed in the July issue
June 11, 2018: Adrienne Celt’s “On the Pain of Breaking Up with My Old Apartment,” an illustrated essay in Lit Hub, “Toothless: On the Dentist, Powerlessness, and Pnin,” an essay in Paris Review Daily, and “On a John Singer Sargent Painting and Marrying Young,” an essay in Catapult
June 6, 2018: STILL LIVES by Maria Hummel appears on Refinery29’s Best Books of June list
June 6, 2018: Katharine Dion’s THE DEPENDENTS and Adrienne Celt’s INVITATION TO A BONFIRE appear on O Magazine’s “Top Books of Summer” list
June 5, 2018: Adrienne Celt’s essay, “Vladimir Nabokov Taught Me How to Be a Feminist,” in Electric Literature, “People Ask Me to Write about Horses” in Tin House, and “The Beginning of Me,” an excerpt from her novel, INVITATION TO A BONFIRE, in Shondaland
June 3, 2018: THE DEPENDENTS by Katharine Dion and STILL LIVES by Maria Hummel are included in Entertainment Weekly’s June Reading list
June 2, 2018: INVITATION TO A BONFIRE by Adrienne Celt is an Amazon Book of the Month for June
June 1, 2018: Laura Pritchett’s THE BLUE HOUR won the 2018 Colorado Book Award in Literary Fiction
May 30, 2018: Adrienne Celt’s INVITATION TO A BONFIRE is featured on Summer Reading lists in Harper’s Bazaar, Nylon, O Magazine, Bustle, Elle, Parade, Chicago Tribune, MyDomaine, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Lit Hub, Fodor’s Travel and others
May 29, 2018: Maria Hummel’s STILL LIVES is a Book of the Month pick for May and is included on Buzzfeed and The Daily Beast’s Summer Reading lists
May 23, 2018: Time Magazine includes THE DEPENDENTS by Katharine Dion and STILL LIVES by Maria Hummel on their Summer Reading list
May 22, 2018: THE LOVED ONES by Sonya Chung is included in “Road Trip Reads” in The New York Times
May 21, 2018: Lindsey Drager’s THE LOST DAUGHTER COLLECTIVE is a finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror and a finalist for the 2017 Foreward Indie Award in Literary Fiction
May 17, 2018: Jennifer Kabat’s essay, “Thomas Cole: A Conservative Conservationist,” in The New York Review of Books
May 16, 2018: GALAPAGOS REGAINED by James Morrow wins the 2018 Grand Prix de L’Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel
May 15, 2018: PURE HOLLYWOOD by Christine Schutt is appears on New York Magazine’s Best Book of the Year (So Far) list
May 10, 2018: THE LOST DAUGHTER COLLECTIVE by Lindsey Drager and THE ASYLUM OF DR. CALIGARI by James Morrow are 2017 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees
May 9, 2018: STILTSVILLE by Susanna Daniel is included on PureWow’s “8 Quintessential Books Set in Miami” list
May 3, 2018: Jennifer Tseng’s THE PASSION OF WOO & ISOLDE is a finalist for the 2018 CLMP Firecracker Awards in Fiction
May 1, 2018: INVITATION TO A BONFIRE by Adrienne Celt is a June Indie Next pick
April 2, 2018: LIVE FROM CAIRO by Ian Bassingthwaighte is a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award
March 29, 2018: Devorah Blachor’s piece “Gen X Activism: An Oral History” in The New York Times
March 6, 2018: Adrienne Celt is one of BookPage’s “11 Women to Watch in 2018”
February 6, 2018: Devorah Blachor’s essay How I Solved the Gender Labor Imbalance in The New York Times
January 30, 2018: Dave Madden’s essay Nonfiction as Queer Aesthetic: Discovering Myself, Discovering My Art in Lit Hub
January 18, 2018: Molly Caro May’s piece, “I Am Different Now from the Person I Wrote in My Memoir,” in Lit Hub
January 18, 2018: DOUBLE LIFE by Flynn Berry, INVITATION TO A BONFIRE by Adrienne Celt, THE DEPENDENTS by Katharine Dion, and WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT CHARLIE OUTLAW by Leah Stewart are on Publishers Marketplace’s Spring/Summer Buzz Books list
January 10, 2018: “The Innocence Deniers” by Lara Bazelon in Slate
January 8, 2018: INVITATION TO A BONFIRE by Adrienne Celt on The Millions’ Most Anticipated Books of 2018 List and The Rumpus’ “What to Read in 2018” list
January 3, 2018: Lara Bazelon’s op-ed, “After #MeToo Comes to the Courts,” in The New York Times
December 30, 2017: Kristen Iskandrian’s MOTHEREST is included in The Wall Street Journal’s “Fiction that Defined 2017” list and is a Lenny Letter Best Book of 2017
December 15, 2017: “Pups,” a story by Kate Folk, in One Story
December 14, 2017: Laura Pritchett’s THE BLUE HOUR makes the Booklist Editors’ Choice List for 2017
December 13, 2017: Rita Mae Brown’s Sneaky Pie Mystery series appears on Book Riot’s “25 of the Absolute Best Cozy Mystery Series” list
December 8, 2017: Phillip Lopate ’s A MOTHER’S TALE is mentioned as author Sujatha Gidla’s favorite book of the year in Publishers Weekly
December 5, 2017: Heather Gudenkauf’s NOT A SOUND named an NPR Best Book of the Year
December 4, 2017: Mark Helprin’s PARIS IN THE PRESENT TENSE is featured on Powell’s list of Best Fiction of 2017
December 1, 2017: EYES OF THE WORLD by Marina Budhos and Marc Aronson is a Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year, a 2018 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist, and a Horn Book Best Book of the Year
November 28, 2017: Adrienne Celt’s INVITATION TO A BONFIRE is included on Book Riot’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2018” list
November 17, 2017: Dominic Smith is awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for 2018
November 15, 2017: EYES OF THE WORLD by Marina Budhos and Marc Aronson is named one of the Best Children’s Books of 2017 by the Washington Post
November 15, 2017: Heather Gudenkauf’s NOT A SOUND named one of the 10 Best Thrillers and Mysteries of 2017 by the Washington Post
November 13, 2017: Devorah Blachor‘s piece “Learning to Accept My Daughter’s Obsession With Disney Princesses” in The Washington Post
November 13, 2017: Ian Bassingthwaighte’s LIVE FROM CAIRO is included on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction of 2017 list
November 10, 2017: SERAFINA AND THE SPLINTERED HEART by Robert Beatty is one of Amazon’s Best Children’s Books of 2017
October 27, 2017: Lachlan Smith‘s WOLF’S REVENGE is a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
October 27, 2017: Kristen Iskandrian’s MOTHEREST is on Publishers Weekly’s Best Fiction of 2017 list
October 18, 2017: Anne Edelstein’s essay “In Losing a Dog, a Lesson in Love and Madness” in Tablet
October 4, 2017: Jennifer Kabat ’s essay “Rain Like Cotton” in BOMB magazine
October 1, 2017: Sharon Harrigan ’s essay “The Unusual Way My Husband and I Keep the Spark Alive” in Real Simple magazine
September 6, 2017: Sorayya Khan’s CITY OF SPIES is named one of the Huffington Post’s “28 New Fiction Books to Add to Your Must-Read List This Fall.”
August 3, 2017: Brendan Mathews’ THE WORLD OF TOMORROW is an Indie Next Pick, and Caroline Leavitt’s CRUEL BEAUTIFUL WORLD is an Indie Next Paperback Pick.
August 2, 2017: Kristen Iskandrian’s MOTHEREST is an August Best Book pick from Bookish and The Millions
August 2, 2017: MOTHEREST by Kristen Iskandrian and MORNINGSTAR: GROWING UP WITH BOOKS by Ann Hood are iBooks Best Books of August
July 17, 2017: Hannah Gersen’s HOME FIELD is long listed for the 2017 Crook’s Corner Book Prize
July 13, 2017: MOTHEREST by Kristen Iskandrian and THE WORLD OF TOMORROW by Brendan Mathews are long listed for the 2017 Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize
May 1, 2017: Kristen Iskandrian’s story, “The Taster,” in Ploughshares
April 27, 2017: UNDER THE HARROW by Flynn Berry wins a 2017 Edgar Award for Best First Novel
April 22, 2017: THE NIX by Nathan Hill wins the L.A. Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
April 6, 2017: Terry Tempest Williams’ THE HOUR OF LAND is a Nonfiction finalist for the ABA’s 2017 Indie Choice Awards
April 5, 2017: “Midnight in the Garden of Women,” an essay by Adrienne Celt, on Vol. 1 Brooklyn
April 5, 2017: THE PORTABLE VEBLEN by Elizabeth McKenzie is a Fiction finalist for the C alifornia Book Award
April 4, 2017: Kristen Iskandrian’s story, “Good With Boys,” in Zyzzyva
April 1, 2017: Jennifer Tseng’s story, “To Drink from the Lion’s Mouth” in Tin House
March 21, 2017: Louise Aronson, Jill Christman, and Richard Slotkin are included on the longlist for the Notting Hill 2017 Essay Prize
March 20, 2017: Dominic Smith’s THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS wins a Fiction Indie Book Award from the Australian Independent Booksellers Association
March 7, 2017: JUST BETWEEN US: MOTHER & DAUGHTER by Meredith and Sofie Jacobs is profiled in The Wall Street Journal, “The Secret to Getting Your Teen to Talk”
March 6, 2017: Laura Pritchett’s THE BLUE HOUR and Robert D. Kaplan’s EARNING THE ROCKIES are included on PBS Newshour’s “Books that Will Make You Think About What it Means to be Human” list
February 22, 2017: THE NIX by Nathan Hill is shortlisted for the L.A. Times’ Art Seidenberg Prize for First Fiction Book Prize
February 14, 2017: Bill Hayes’ “What it Was Like to Love Oliver Sacks” on Buzzfeed, an excerpt from his memoir, INSOMNIAC CITY
January 31, 2017: “A Scale Model of Gull Point,” a story by Kate Folk, in Granta
January 24, 2017: “The Wig,” a story by Kristen Iskandrian, in Joyland
January 19, 2017: Flynn Berry’s UNDER THE HARROW is shortlisted for the 2017 Edgar Awards’ Best First Novel Prize
January 13, 2017: From The New York Times: “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,” in The New York Times
January 5, 2017: “His Hair Was on Fire,” flash fiction by Ron Carlson, on Kenyon Review online
December 22, 2016: Flynn Berry’s UNDER THE HARROW appears on The Atlantic’s Best Books We Read in 2016 list
December 20, 2016: NINE ISLAND by Jane Alison and THE LOVED ONES by Sonya Chung are included on Book Riot’s Best Books of the Year from Indie Presses list
December 19, 2016: Elizabeth McKenzie’s THE PORTABLE VEBLEN appears on Elle’s Best Books of the Year list
December 19, 2016: NINE ISLAND by Jane Alison is included on Lit Hub’s 35 Best Books of the Year list
December 16, 2016: Nathan Hill’s THE NIX is included on The New York Times’ and Washington Post’s Notable Books of 2016 lists, and Best Books of the Year lists for Newsday, Library Journal, Huffington Post, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, BookPage, and Amazon
December 14, 2016: Sonya Chung’s THE LOVED ONES and Nathan Hill’s THE NIX appear on Writer’s Bone‘s Best Books of 2016 list
December 9, 2016: T HE ARTISTS’ AND WRITERS’ COOKBOOK by Natalie Eve Garrett appears on The New York Times’ T Magazine’s holiday gift list
December 9, 2016: Susan Cheever’s DRINKING IN AMERICA is included on the longlist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction and Matthew Griffin’s HIDE is included on the longlist for the 2017 PEN/Robert Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
December 3, 2016: THE NIX by Nathan Hill is a finalist for the NBCC’s 2016 John Leonard Prize and is Audible’s Audiobook of the Year
December 2, 2016: Susan Heeger’s “Aquabot” on Tin House’s Open Bar
December 1, 2016: Jennifer Kabat’s essay, “The Fairytale,” in Granta
November 30, 2016: David Greenwood’s story, “The Solo Show,” on Electric Literature’s “Recommended Reading”
November 22, 2016: Elizabeth McKenzie’s THE PORTABLE VEBLEN and Natalie Eve Garrett’s T HE ARTISTS’ AND WRITERS’ COOKBOOK in The New York Times’ 2016 Holiday Gift Guide and Gift Guide for Food and Cooking
November 17, 2016: Ruth Gruber, renowned photojournalist and author of 19 books, dies at 105. From The New York Times: “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,” an interview with the author of WATCHED on Lit Hub
November 15, 2016: THE NIX by Nathan Hill and THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS by Dominic Smith are on Amazon’s Best Books of the Year list
November 15, 2016: Scott Turow’s “My Inner 6-Year-Old Believed the Cubs Would Win” in Time
November 14, 2016: THE LOVED ONES by Sonya Chung, THE NIX by Nathan Hill, THE PORTABLE VEBLEN by Elizabeth McKenzie, and THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS by Dominic Smith are included on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction of 2016 list
November 14, 2016: Susan Heeger’s flash fiction “The Baby” appears in Pinball Magazine
November 8, 2016: Kate Folk’s “Heart Seeks Brain” and James Morrow’s “Noh Exit” in Conjunctions
November 7, 2016: “Why My Generation of Women is More Excited to Vote for a Woman for President than My Daughters’” by Marianne Malone, in Parade
November 2, 2016: Holly Bellebuono’s THE HEALING KITCHEN is highlighted in T, The New York Times Style Magazine’s “Three New Cookbooks, for Health’s Sake”
November 2, 2016: “David James Poissant on Compression, Tension, and Writing Sacred,” an interview with the author of THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS on Lit Hub
November 1, 2016: “The Rumpus Interview with Jane Alison,” an interview with the author of NINE ISLAND on The Rumpus
October 31, 2016: Adrienne Celt’s essay, “The Writer Is In,” on Catapult
October 28, 2016: NINE ISLAND by Jane Alison is included on Publisher’s Weekly Best Fiction of 2016 list
October 26, 2016: “Shoot If You Must This Old Red Head,” 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 HE ARTISTS’ AND WRITERS’ COOKBOOK on their “New Books that are Guaranteed to Make You Hungry” list and Garden & Gun’s Fall Reads list
October 18, 2016: “How I Learned That Beauty Doesn’t Have to Hurt,” an essay by Sonya Chung on Buzzfeed
October 17, 2016: “Sonya Chung on Race, Risk, and Reinvention,” an interview with the author of THE LOVED ONES on Electric Literature
October 11, 2016: Excerpts from THE ARTISTS’ AND WRITERS’ COOKBOOK edited by Natalie Eve Garrett appear on The Hairpin, Lucky Peach, The Kitchn, and Lit Hub
October 3, 2016: Sonya Chung’s THE LOVED ONES is on Bustle, Nylon, and Refinery29’s Best Fiction of October lists
October 1, 2016: THE ARTISTS’ AND WRITERS’ COOKBOOK edited by Natalie Eve Garrett is a Pick of the Week on Lenny Letter and appears on Teen Vogue’s What to Read in October list
September 29, 2016: Sonya Chung’s THE LOVED ONES appears on the November Indie Next list
September 22, 2016: THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS by Dominic Smith and THE HOUR OF LAND: A PERSONAL TOPOGRAPHY OF AMERICA’S NATIONAL PARKS by Terry Tempest Williams are longlisted for 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence
September 19, 2016: THE LOVED ONES by Sonya Chung is The Nervous Breakdown’s October Book Club pick
September 18, 2016: “My Teenage Obsession With ‘How Things Work’” by Heather Sellers in The New York Times
September 15, 2016: Elizabeth McKenzie’s THE PORTABLE VEBLEN shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction
September 14, 2016: Adrienne Celt’s story, “Big Boss Bitch”, in Zyzzyva
September 7, 2016: “Marina Abramović, James Franco, and More: Fanciful Recipes From Artists and Writers,” an excerpt from THE ARTISTS’ AND WRITERS’ COOKBOOK edited by Natalie Eve Garrett, on Vogue.com
September 1, 2016: CRUEL BEAUTIFUL WORLD by Caroline Leavitt appears on the October Indie Next list
September 1, 2016: Jane Alison’s NINE ISLAND is a Best Book of September in Elle Magazine
August 31, 2016: “The Rainmaker’s Flood” by Jennifer Kabat in Harper’s Magazine
August 29, 2016: THE NIX and Nathan Hill profiled in The New York Times, “Nathan Hill Is Compared to John Irving. Irving Compares Him to Dickens,” and interviewed in New York Magazine
August 27, 2016: “Out Late with Oliver Sacks” by Bill Hayes in The New York Times
August 23, 2016: THE NIX by Nathan Hill is a Barnes & Noble Fall 2016 “Discover New Writers” pick and an Amazon Editor’s Pick for Fall 2016
August 9, 2016: Lara Bazelon’s essay, “Put Away the Pitchforks Against Judge Persky,” in Politico
August 8, 2016: “It’s Time Fiction Reflected Gay Married Life,” an essay by Matthew Griffin in The Guardian
August 5, 2016: MIGRATORY ANIMALS by Mary Helen Specht and RULES FOR WEREWOLVES by Kirk Lynn win Writers’ League of Texas 2015 Book Awards
August 4, 2016: An excerpt from Hannah Gersen’s HOME FIELD appears on Lit Hub
August 3, 2016: THE NIX by Nathan Hill is included in New York Magazine’s “Books You Need to Read This August” and appears on the September Indie Next list
August 2, 2016: THE BOOK THAT MATTERS MOST by Ann Hood and THE NIX by Nathan Hill are included on Barnes & Noble’s “August’s Best New Fiction” list
July 20, 2016: “Count It All What? On Titling My Novel,” an essay by Hannah Gersen, on Catapult
July 11, 2016: Adrienne Celt’s story, “Dear Clarice,” in Ecotone
July 7, 2016: Jennifer Tseng’s “Dearest Jenny: Reading My Chinese Father’s English Letters” in Electric Literature
July 6, 2016: THE LOVED ONES by Sonya Chung, HOME FIELD by Hannah Gersen, THE NIX by Nathan Hill, and SHINING SEA by Anne Korkeakivi are included in The Great Second Half 2016 Book Preview on The Millions
June 30, 2016: THE BOOK THAT MATTERS MOST by Ann Hood appears on the August Indie Next list
June 23, 2016: BEHAVE by Andromeda Romano-Lax and THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS by Dominic Smith appear on Amazon’s Best Books of 2016 So Far Literature & Fiction list
June 18, 2016: Ann Hood’s “Books Brought Me Back to Life” in Publisher’s Weekly
June 17, 2016: THE NIX by Nathan Hill and HOME FIELD by Hannah Gersen appear on The Master Review’s Summer Reading list
June 15, 2016: Lara Bazelon’s essay, “Exes and O’s,” on Slate
June 13, 2016: Flynn Berry’s “When Your Research Starts to Terrify You” on Lit Hub
June 1, 2016: THE NIX by Nathan Hill is on Entertainment Weekly, Harper’s Bazaar, and The Strand Bookstore’s Summer Reading lists
June 1, 2016: UNDER THE HARROW by Flynn Berry is on Cosmopolitan, Elle, Huffington Post, Real Simple, PureWow, Goop, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s Summer Reading lists
May 24, 2016: Ron Carlson’s story, “Goodbye to Rootine,” appears in the June issue of Playboy
May 23, 2016: Adrienne Celt and Sarah Cornwell win 2015 Prairie Schooner Writing Prizes
May 22, 2016: “No Sound, No Fury, No Marriage,” a Modern Love essay by Laura Pritchett in the The New York Times
May 19, 2016: Ron Carlson and Adrienne Celt win 2016 O. Henry Prizes
May 18, 2016: Jennifer Kabat’s essay collection, GROWING UP MODERN, is shortlisted for the 2016 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize
May 10, 2016: “M Train by Patti Smith, A Partial Index” by Kim Church on The Believer Logger
May 6, 2016: “No More Dead Mothers: Reading, Writing, and Grieving” by Hannah Gersen on Lit Hub
May 5, 2016: Matthew Griffin’s “Notes from My Book Tour” on Lit Hub
May 1, 2016: Jane Bernstein’s “Why Are People Trying to Take My Disabled Daughter’s Job Away?” in Vice
April 28, 2016: Andrea Barrett wins Rea Award for the Short Story
April 28, 2016: KING OF THE GYPSIES by Lenore Myka is a finalist for the 2016 Chautauqua Prize
April 27, 2016: Terry Tempest Williams’s THE HOUR OF LAND: A PERSONAL TOPOGRAPHY OF AMERICA’S NATIONAL PARKS is on the June Indie Next list
April 27, 2016: “The Carnival of Kid Baseball” by Lynn Murray in Tin House’s Open Bar
April 14, 2016: BEHAVE by Andromeda Romano-Lax, THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS by Dominic Smith, and THE ONE-IN-A-MILLION BOY by Monica Wood are included on the April Indie Next list
April 12, 2016: Holly Bellebuono’s WOMEN HEALERS OF THE WORLD was awarded a 2015 Better Books for a Better World Nautilus Gold Award
April 11, 2016: Elizabeth McKenzie’s THE PORTABLE VEBLEN shortlisted for the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction
April 8, 2016: RED LIGHTNING by Laura Pritchett is shortlisted for the 2015 Reading the West Awards
April 7, 2016: “Exactly What To Say” by Kim Church, “A Healing Touch” by Mary Jane Nealon, and “Unlocked” by Heather Sellers in the April issue of The Sun
April 7, 2016: Joan Aiken’s story, “The Cold Flame,” appears on Tor.com ahead of the publication of THE PEOPLE IN THE CASTLE
April 1, 2016: Dominic Smith’s THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS is included in O Magazine’s April “10 Titles to Pick Up Now”
March 14, 2016: AMERICAN COPPER by Shann Ray wins the Western Writers of America 2016 Best First Novel Spur Award
March 12, 2016: “Views From a Height: Technologies of Surveillance from the Photographic Survey to the Predator Drone,” by Jennifer Kabat in the Los Angeles Review of Books
March 9, 2016: LaShonda Katrice Barnett’s JAM ON THE VINE and Michael Golding’s A POET OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD named Lambda Literary Award finalists
March 3, 2016: Page Stegner, son of Wallace Stegner, discusses his father’s work in an interview with University of Nebraska Press
February 5, 2016: Lionsgate Motion Picture Group acquires live-action film rights to the globally-renowned MAGIC TREE HOUSE series by Mary Pope Osborne
February 4, 2016: THE DAUGHTERS by Adrienne Celt wins the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award for Fiction
February 3, 2016: “The First Summer,” an excerpt from Matthew Griffin’s HIDE, appears on Electric Literature’s “Recommended Reading”
February 2, 2016: MAYUMI AND THE SEA OF HAPPINESS by Jennifer Tseng is shortlisted for the 2016 PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
January 26, 2016: “Surrealism and Decomposition. Or How I Wrote My Novel” by Elizabeth McKenzie on the Lit Hub
January 22, 2016: “The Making of THE PORTABLE VEBLEN: Elizabeth McKenzie Talks with Her Editor” in Publishers Weekly
January 14, 2016: UNDER THE HARROW by Flynn Berry, HOME FIELD by Hannah Gersen, UNRIVALED by Alyson Noel, and THREE MARTINI LUNCH by Suzanne Rindell appear on the Publisher Lunch Buzz Books for Spring/Summer 2016 list
January 8, 2016: Adrienne Celt’s THE DAUGHTERS is one of NYPL’s Favorite Books of 2015
January 7, 2016: Ed Tarkington’s “How I Gave Up On the Great American Novel and Got a Book Deal” on the Lit Hub
January 7, 2016: MISSING PIECES by Heather Gudenkauf and THE PORTABLE VEBLEN by Elizabeth McKenzie are included on the February Indie Next list
January 6, 2016: THE PORTABLE VEBLEN by Elizabeth McKenzie appears on Entertainment Weekly, Huffington Post, and Flavorwire’s Most Anticipated Books of 2016 lists
January 4, 2016: Hannah Gersen’s HOME FIELD is included in The Great 2016 Book Preview on The Millions
December 21, 2015: Robert Beatty’s SERAFINA AND THE BLACK CLOAK is one of Powell’s Books Best Kids’ Books of 2015
December 18, 2015: Erin McGraw’s story, “Hello from an Old Friend,” appears in Tin House’s Open Bar Flash Friday
December 17, 2015: Lenore Myka is awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship for 2015 by the NEA
December 14, 2015: “An Overdose of Christmas Leads to a Bigger Hanukkah, and More,” by Devorah Blachor, in The New York Times
December 13, 2015: “Who Said ‘Game of Thrones’ Wasn’t For Kids?” by Lara Bazelon in The New York Times
December 11, 2015: DRINKING IN AMERICA: OUR SECRET HISTORY by Susan Cheever appears on Shelf Awareness’s Best Books of 2015 list
December 8, 2015: Adrienne Celt’s THE DAUGHTERS and Michael Cunningham’s A WILD SWAN: AND OTHER TALES appear on NPR’s Best Books of 2015 list
December 7, 2015: MAYUMI AND THE SEA OF HAPPINESS by Jennifer Tseng is longlisted for the 2016 PEN/Bingham Prize
December 4, 2015: Michael Cunningham’s A WILD SWAN: AND OTHER TALES featured on Slate’s 10 Best Books of 2015 list
December 3, 2015: Greil Marcus’s REAL LIFE ROCK in The New York Times’ 2015 Holiday Gift Guide and The New Yorker profiles his career in “Greil Marcus’s Critical Super Power”
November 19, 2015: “What’s the Best Way to Teach Kids about Tragedy?” a profile of Lauren Tarshis’ best-selling I SURVIVED series in The Atlantic
November 18, 2015: From the New York Times: “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: “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 by Jill Ciment featured on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction Books of 2015
November 14, 2015: “Modern Date Night,” by Heather Sellers in Parade
November 13, 2015: Adrienne Celt’s THE DAUGHTERS is shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Awards
November 11, 2015: EVERY PERSON IN NEW YORK by Jason Polan is included on Amazon’s Best Books of 2015 Arts & Photography list
November 10, 2015: Michael Cunningham’s SNOW QUEEN and Adrianne Harun’s A MAN CAME OUT OF A DOOR IN THE MOUNTAIN longlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award
October 27, 2015: “The Art of Basketball, Writing, and Good Smack Talk,” Shann Ray in Conversation with Jess Walter, in Tin House’s Open Bar
October 14, 2015: “A Woman Alone in China,” an essay by Virginia Pye, on the Lit Hub
October 2, 2015: RULES FOR WEREWOLVES by Kirk Lynn featured in Men’s Journal’s “The 7 Best Books of October”
October 1, 2015: David James Poissant’s essay, “How to Balance Writing, Family, Work and Life: An Unhelpful Guide for the Perplexed,” in Glimmer Train
September 30, 2015: Lara Bazelon’s “Justice After Injustice” in Slate
September 25, 2015: “Ten Faces,” an excerpt from Joseph Skibell’s MY FATHER’S GUITAR AND OTHER IMAGINARY THINGS, in Commentary Magazine
September 24, 2015: “From Divorce, a Fractured Beauty,” a Modern Love essay by Lara Bazelon in The New York Times
September 13, 2015: “What a team—football and Jesus,” an op-ed by Diane Roberts, in the Los Angeles Times
September 5, 2015: WHAT IS VISIBLE by Kimberly Elkins is a finalist for the Library of Virginia Literary Awards
September 3, 2015: Dwight Garner on Greil Marcus’s MYSTERY TRAIN in “Just a Book? No, More Like a Trusty Companion” in The New York Times
September 2, 2015: Jennifer Kabat is shortlisted for Knotting Hill Editions 2015 Essay Prize
August 28, 2015: Alexandra Zapruder’s introduction to the second edition of SALVAGED PAGES: YOUNG WRITERS’ DIARIES OF THE HOLOCAUST on the Lit Hub
August 10, 2015: “Little Man,” an excerpt from Michael Cunningham’s A WILD SWAN: AND OTHER TALES, in The New Yorker
August 13, 2015: Kim Church is awarded a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship for 2015 in prose
August 4, 2015: “Two Truths and a Lie: What do Fiction Writers Take from Life?” an essay by Adrienne Celt, in Tin House’s Open Bar
August 3, 2015: Janet Sternburg’s WHITE MATTER is profiled in The Washington Post, “A Memoir Investigates How a Family Lobotomized Two of its Children”
July 29, 2015: “Lulu,” an excerpt from Adrienne Celt’s THE DAUGHTERS, appears on Electric Literature‘s “Recommended Reading”
July 7, 2015: JAM ON THE VINE by LaShonda Barnett and MIGRATORY ANIMALS by Mary Helen Specht are longlisted for the 2015 Crook’s Corner Book Prize for Best Debut Novel Set in the South
July 6, 2015: MAYUMI AND THE SEA OF HAPPINESS by Jennifer Tseng is a finalist for the New England Independent Booksellers Association 2015 Book Award
July 6, 2015: Adrienne Celt’s THE DAUGHTERS appears on The Millions’ Second Half of 2015 Most Anticipated Book list
June 19, 2015: Linda Yellin’s op-ed, “My Father was a Fraud,” in The Chicago Tribune
June 15, 2015: “‘Just be yourself’ is cruel, fraudulent advice to give young people,” an essay by Jesse Browner, in Salon
June 14, 2015: Craig Johnson’s ANY OTHER NAME and Laura Pritchett’s STARS GO BLUE are finalists for the 2015 High Plains Book Award in Fiction
June 12, 2015: “The Speakeasy: A week of stand-up in Hollywood’s toughest room” by Dave Madden in Harper’s
June 1, 2015: Rita Mae Brown is awarded with a Lambda Literary Pioneer Award, presented by Gloria Steinem
May 30, 2015: Jennifer Tseng’s MAYUMI AND THE SEA OF HAPPINESS appears on LA Times’ Fiction Books You’ll Want to Read This Summer list
May 14, 2015: “Shopping for Antiques, Finding My Mother” by Heather Sellers in The New York Times Opinionator’s Private Lives
May 13, 2015: Adrienne Celt’s THE DAUGHTERS appears on Bustle’s Best Books of the Summer list
April 27, 2015: Kim Church’s BYRD is a finalist for the 2015 Chautauqua Prize, is longlisted for the 2015 SIBA Book Award in Fiction, and wins a 2015 Independent Publisher Book Award, Bronze Medal in Literary Fiction
April 15, 2015: “Mr. Legs,” a story by Sarah Cornwell, in Prairie Schooner
April 11, 2015: Elizabeth Crook’s MONDAY, MONDAY wins 2015 Jesse H. Jones Award for best fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters
March 31, 2015: Laura Pritchett’s STARS GO BLUE is a finalist for MPIBA’s Reading the West Awards in Adult Fiction and a finalist for The 2015 Colorado Book Awards in Literary Fiction
March 24, 2015: Adrianne Harun’s A MAN CAME OUT OF A DOOR IN THE MOUNTAIN wins 2015 Pinckley Prize for Debut Novel
March 17, 2015: David James Poissant’s THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS is one of ten debuts longlisted for the 2015 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize
March 15, 2015: Will Boast’s EPILOGUE awarded a 2015 Rome Prize from the Academy of Arts and Letters
March 12, 2015: Jacinda Townsend’s SAINT MONKEY wins 2015 James Fenimore Cooper Prize
February 1, 2015: “The One Beauty Treatment I Refused to Get” by Ann Hood in Real Simple
January 15, 2015: “Go Back,” a story by Adrienne Celt, in The Kenyon Review
January 14, 2015: Kimberly Elkins’ WHAT IS VISIBLE wins 2014 David Langum Prize for American Historical Fiction
January 6, 2015: Kim Church’s BYRD wins 2014 Crook’s Corner Book Prize for Best Debut Novel Set in the South
January 2, 2015: “Traveling Corpse” by Andrea Barrett appears in the Winter Issue of American Scholar
December 28, 2014: WHAT IS VISIBLE by Kimberly Elkins and THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS 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 includes EPILOGUE by Will Boast, E. E. CUMMINGS: A LIFE by Susan Cheever, MOTHERLAND by Maria Hummel, FAMOUS WRITERS I HAVE KNOWN by James Magnuson, and THE HISTORY OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL IN TEN SONGS by Greil Marcus
December 24, 2014: KILL MY MOTHER by Jules Feiffer appears on Vanity Fair‘s “Best Books of 2014 That You Can Spend 2015 Reading” list
December 23, 2014: “Knitting Through Grief” by Ann Hood in The Boston Globe
December 22, 2014: THE HISTORY OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL IN TEN SONGS by Greil Marcus and FAMOUS WRITERS I HAVE KNOWN by James Magnuson are on NPR’s Best Books of 2014 list
December 15, 2014: MERMAID by Eileen Cronin is featured on O Magazine’s Best Memoirs of 2014 list and on Pop Sugar’s Must Reads of 2014
December 10, 2014: Greil Marcus’ THE HISTORY OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL IN TEN SONGS appears on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Nonfiction Books of 2014 list, Buzzfeed Books’ “14 Books from 2014 Every Music Lover Needs To Read,” and Financial Times’ Best Books of 2014 list
December 9, 2014: “One of Us is a Mystery: Marilynne Robinson and the Cosmology of Perdition,” an essay by Adrienne Celt, in Tin House’s Open Bar
December 8, 2014: “Savage Breast,” a story by Elizabeth McKenzie, in The New Yorker
December 7, 2014: KILL MY MOTHER by Jules Feiffer is featured on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction Books of 2014 list and iTunes Best Books of 2014 list
December 1, 2014: DEATH SWORN by Leah Cypess appears on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Teen Books of 2014 list
November 28, 2014: Crook’s Corner Book Prize shortlists Kim Church’s BYRD and Jacinda Townshend’s SAINT MONKEY for Best Debut Novel Set in the South
November 27, 2014: Robert Kaplan’s ASIA’S CAULDRON is one of Financial Times‘ Best Books of 2014
November 25, 2014: WHAT IS VISIBLE by Kimberly Elkins appears on Book Page’s Best Books of 2014 list
November 17, 2014: MONDAY, MONDAY by Elizabeth Crook is featured on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction Books of 2014 list
November 16, 2014: Monica Wood’s essay “Permanent Collection” appears in Parade Magazine
November 7, 2014: “Happiness,” a short story by Ron Carlson, in Ecotone
November 5, 2014: EINSTEIN THE CLASS HAMSTER by Janet Tashjian is named to the Master List for the 2016 LA Reader’s Choice Award
October 29, 2014: Gregg Herken’s “The Georgetown Set: When Joe Aslop, Ben Bradlee and Their Friends Ran This Town,” an excerpt from his new book, THE GEORGETOWN SET, in Politico
October 17, 2014: Vanity Fair publishes “Could the Secret Service Have Saved J.F.K.?,” adapted from Susan Cheever‘s, DRINKING IN AMERICA: OUR SECRET HISTORY, forthcoming in October 2015
September 24, 2014: THE WOMAN WHO LOST HER SOUL by Bob Shacochis wins the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for fiction
September 15, 2014: Will Boast’s “Overdue,” an excerpt from his new memoir, EPILOGUE, is Narrative Magazine’s Story of the Week
August 24, 2014: Greil Marcus’ “The Beatles’ Cry of Freedom: ‘Money,’ 50 Years Later,” an excerpt from his upcoming book, THE HISTORY OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL IN TEN SONGS, in The Los Angeles Times
August 23, 2014: “On Not Writing” by Bill Hayes in The New York Times
August 19, 2014: “Horror Story at Lonely Lake,” flash fiction by Ron Carlson, in Tin House’s Open Bar
July 16, 2014: “Empathy, Gentleness, Patience,” an essay by Heather Gudenkauf in Salon
July 1, 2014: “Summer Losses” by Paula Fox in The Yale Review
June 26, 2014: Kim Church’s BYRD and Jacinda Townshend’s SAINT MONKEY are included on the Center for Fiction’s longlist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize
June 15, 2014: Andrea Barrett’s “Dust” appears in The Paris Review, Issue 209, Summer 2014
June 10, 2014: A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT ILLNESS by Louise Aronson is a finalist for the 2014 PEN/Bingham Prize
June 2, 2014: “The Benevolent Society” by Sarah Cornwell in the Summer issue of Alaska Quarterly Review
May 31, 2014: “Lessons from the Smoke Shop” by Bill Hayes in The New York Times
May 30, 2014: “The Brutal Truth About Writing About a Father’s Alzheimer’s” by Laura Pritchett in Publishers Weekly
May 21, 2014: Meryl Gordon’s “The Curious and Shocking Death of Huguette Clark,” an excerpt from her upcoming book, THE PHANTOM OF FIFTH AVENUE, in the June issue of Town & Country
May 4, 2014: Andrea Barrett’s “Don’t Be Afraid to Start Over” on The American Scholar‘s Writing Lessons blog, about writing advice from Nicholas Delbanco
April 28, 2014: THE NEXT TIME YOU SEE ME by Holly Goddard Jones wins 2014 Kentucky Literary Award
April 14, 2014: THE WOMAN WHO LOST HER SOUL by Bob Shacochis is a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
April 10, 2014: Randall Fuller awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Humanities (American Literature)
April 8, 2014: “Tracing the Blue Light,” an excerpt from Eileen Cronin’s memoir, MERMAID, on The Daily Beast
April 6, 2014: MANY RIVERS TO CROSS by Thomas Zigal receives Texas Institute of Letters’ Jesse Jones Award for Fiction
March 25, 2014: “11 Underappreciated Literary Masterpieces,” an essay by Kim Church, on Huffington Post
March 20, 2014: “Geopolitics and the New World Order” by Robert D. Kaplan is the cover story of Time
February 24, 2014: “Shelter,” an excerpt from Adrianne Harun’s A MAN CAME OUT OF A DOOR IN THE MOUNTAIN, is the Story of the Week in Narrative Magazine
February 21, 2014: Andrea Barrett and Bob Shacochis on the 2014 Carnegie Medal longlist for Fiction
February 14, 2014: “Winter’s Tale,” the Warner Bros. film adaptation of Mark Helprin‘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 by Amity Gaige on the shortlist for the 2014 Folio Prize
January 21, 2014: “Forgiveness and Healing: My Thalidomide Story,” an essay by Eileen Cronin, in Everyday Health
January 15, 2014: Andrea Barrett’s ARCHANGEL is a finalist for the 2013 Story Prize
December 12, 2013: THE JOKER by Andrew Hudgins featured on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Nonfiction Books of 2013 list
December 6, 2013: THE WOMAN WHO LOST HER SOUL by Bob Shacochis appears on Huffington Post’s 10 Best Books of 2013, Amazon’s Best Books of 2013, Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction Books of 2013, Library Journal’s and Entertainment Weekly’s Top 10 Books of 2013, and NPR’s Best Reads of the Year
December 6, 2013: Amity Gaige’s SCHRODER appears on The New York Times and Washington Post’s Notable Books of 2013, Huffington Post’s Best Books of 2013, Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction Books of 2013, Amazon’s 100 Best Books of 2013, Bookmarks Magazine’s Best Books of 2013, is one of Publisher’s Weekly’s 101 Best Books of 2013, and is mentioned in two “A Year in Reading” lists on The Millions
December 5, 2013: Rita Mae Brown nominated for a Career Achievement Award from RT Book Reviews in the Mystery & Suspense category
December 3, 2013: “The Secrets Inside Us,” an op-ed by Bill Hayes in The New York Times
November 25, 2013: “Longmire,” the A&E hit dramatic television series based on the novels by Craig Johnson (Viking), has been renewed for a third season
November 20, 2013: Cynthia Kadohata is the 2013 National Book Award Winner, Young People’s Literature for her novel, THE THING ABOUT LUCK
November 18,2013: ARCHANGEL by Andrea Barrett, THE SPIRIT OF STEAMBOAT by Craig Johnson, THE OTHER TYPIST by Suzanne Rindell, and BEAR IS BROKEN by Lachlan Smith appear on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction Books of 2013 list
November 5, 2013: Patrick Arden wins Blue Mountain Center’s Richard J. Margolis Award for Nonfiction
November 2013: Ann Hood’s novel THE OBITUARY WRITER 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.
October 18, 2013: “The Love of the Chase,” an essay by Rita Mae Brown, in Saveur
October 15, 2013: VQR launches an on-going six-part series on living in New York, by Bill Hayes
October 9, 2013: From the New York Times: “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 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. 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 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 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,” a short story by Ron Carlson, in The Atlantic
August 9, 2013: “Midlist Crisis,” essay by Phillip Lopate, in The New York Times Book Review
July 23, 2013: Amazon chooses SCHRODER 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 by Suzanne Rindell
June 13, 2013: “Do Not Adjust Your Screen or Sound,” a Modern Love essay by Heather Sellers, in The New York Times
June 9, 2013: “The Joke’s on All of Us” by Andrew Hudgins, in The New York Times
May 20, 2013: The second season of “Longmire,” 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 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”
April 11, 2013: Guggenheim Fellowships awarded to Bill Hayes in Creative Arts (General Nonfiction) and Michael Lesy in Humanities (Photography Studies). Announcement via New York Times
April 7, 2013: “The Slow Death of the American Author” 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

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