News & Deals

April 2024

• Now Available: BAD DREAM by Nicole Maines, illustrated by Rye Hickman
• Congratulations to BUZZING by Samuel Sattin and illustrated by Rye Hickman on its nomination for the 2025 Rhode Island Middle School Book Award and the Michigan Great Lakes Great Books Award!

March 2024

• Now Available: MONDO TOKYO by Patrick Macias
• Now Available: 50 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU’RE 5 by Maggie Downs
• LANGUAGE CITY by Ross Perlin is a New York Times Editor’s Choice recommended book
• Read Ross Perlin’s New York Times op-ed about endangered languages here
• Congratulations! DC Comics Wonder Women Historia: The Amazons written by Kelly Sue DeConnick, art by Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott is nominated for a HUGO Award for Best Graphic Story or Comic

February 2024

• Now Available: LANGUAGE CITY by Ross Perlin
• Now Available: WHY WE READ: ON BOOKWORMS, LIBRARIES, AND JUST ONE MORE PAGE BEFORE LIGHTS OUT by Shannon Reed
• Congratulations! WHY WE READ by Shannon Reed is one of “The Best Books We Read This Week” from The New Yorker!
• Read a lovely little review of WHY WE READ by Shannon Reed on BookBub here
• Read Rebecca Giggs‘s new piece for The New Yorker: “The Snake with the Emoji-Patterned Skin“
• Read a sneak peak of UNICO: AWAKENING, a new graphic novel by Samuel Sattin and illustrated by Gurihiru based on Osamu Tezuka’s original character on Scholastic’s website here
• Read the announcement for SIDE QUEST by Samuel Sattin and Steenz in The Beat
• Read a review of LANGUAGE CITY by Ross Perlin in the New York Times Book Review here
• Read Jamie Harrison‘s piece in the Los Angeles Times: “The West is dotted with places trying to survive. My Montana town is one of them” here
• Read (and interact with!) the interactive piece on Ross Perlin‘s LANGUAGE CITY and NY’s endangered languanges in The New York Times Magazine here!

January 2024

• Congratulations! Shannon Reed‘s upcoming book WHY WE READ is LibraryReads Notable Nonfiction pick for February. See announcement here!
• Congrats to Amy Chu and Soo Lee and the whole CARMILLA team! The graphic novel was nominated for a GLAAD award, and featured in Forbes‘ Top Graphic Novels of 2023 list!
• Congrats to Samuel Sattin and Rye Hickman! BUZZING made the ALA list of Notable Children’s Books 2024!
• Congrats to Kristen Kiesling, Rye Hickman, Jordan Morris, and the teams around these books: THE HARROWING, BAD DREAM, and YOUTH GROUP are on Publishers Weekly‘s list of anticipated young adult comics & graphic novels this spring!
• Read an excerpt from WHY WE READ by Shannon Reed in George Saunders’ substack “Story Club” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s piece for the Los Angeles Times: “Opinion: In California, homelessness isn’t a crime. Is the Supreme Court about to change that?” here
• Listen to the “Write-Minded” interview with Brian H. Williams on LitHub, and hear Dr. Williams discuss the difficulties of opening up to the world while writing his memoir, THE BODIES KEEP COMING
• Read Omer Aziz‘s piece for The Boston Globe, “Where is Biden’s foreign policy taking us?” here
• Read an excerpt of Shannon Reed‘s forthcoming WHY WE READ in the New Yorker, “Signs You May Be an Adult Character in a Y.A. Novel” here!

December 2023

• Congratulations! CARMILLA by Amy Chu and Soo Lee made Nerdist‘s Best Comics of 2023 list! See the full list here!
• Congratulations! Both BAD DREAM, illustrated by Rye Hickman, and YOUTH GROUP, written by Jordan Morris, are featured on CBCC’s list of most anticipated comics for 2024!
• Read David Ulin‘s piece in the Los Angeles Times about writing his new noir novel THIRTEEN QUESTION METHOD here
• Read Omer Aziz‘s piece for The Boston Globe, “What Christmas means to me as a Muslim” here

November 2023

• Now Available: The 20th anniversary edition of SPIRIT OF HAITI by Myriam J.A. Chancy! 
• Now Available: A KID’S GUIDE TO ANIME & MANGA by Samuel Sattin and Patrick Macias, with art by Utomaru!
• Read this piece in Literary Hub by Moeen Farrokhi on translating INFINITE JEST by David Foster Wallace into Farsi

October 2023

• New Deal Alert: LIONHOOD by Craig Childs, chronicling the mysterious world of mountain lions and their beneficial impact on the natural world, to Terry Adams at Little, Brown. See the announcement here
• New Deal Alert: RETURNS AND EXCHANGES by Kayla Rae Whitaker, about the rise and fall of a Kentucky family, the chain of discount stores they build into a dynasty, and what happens when it all falls apart, to Caitlin McKenna at Random House. See the announcement here
• Now Available: THE BROKE HEARTS by Matt Mendez
• Now Available: THIRTEEN QUESTION METHOD by David Ulin
• Now Available: THE ESSENTIAL ANIME GUIDE by Patrick Macias and Samuel Sattin
• Now Available: HARVESTING HAITI by Myriam J. A. Chancy
• Read an interview with David Ulin about his new thriller and writing noir in the west on CrimeReads here!

September 2023

• New Deal Alert: UNICO: AWAKENING, a remake of Osamu Tezuka’s Unico by Gurihiru and our client Samuel Sattin will be the first Graphix Manga, part of Scholastic’s new project! See the announcement here
• Now Available: THE BODIES KEEP COMING by Brian H. Williams
• Now Available in paperback: HOW NOT TO DROWN IN A GLASS OF WATER by Angie Cruz
• Read the first review of the upcoming THE BROKE HEARTS by Matt Mendez in Kirkus Reviews here!
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, “Opinion: When is it wrong to urge social media platforms to take down false information?” here
• Listen and read an interview with Dr. Brian H. Williams about his upcoming book THE BODIES KEEP COMING on Medpage Today here!
• Also, watch Brian H. Williams on Deadline talking about his work and current campaign for Congress here!
• Read Omer Aziz‘s latest in The Globe and Mail, “The real reason Canada’s relationship with India is broken” here
• Read Brian H. Williams‘ op-ed in USA Today on the need for diversity in med school here

August 2023

• Congratulations! Holly Haworth won a 2023 Silvers Grant for Work in Progress!
• Read a fascinating article on the life and career of Vicky Tiel in VIE Magazine here
• Read Omer Aziz‘s piece in The Boston Globe: “A farewell love letter to Boston” here
• Read Maggie Downs‘ article “Loving Sin City, without the Sin” in Virtuoso about being a sober traveler in Las Vegas here
• Read Omer Aziz‘s piece on Richard Wright, Black Boy, and the inspiration he drew from both when writing BROWN BOY. “Black Boy and Me: How Richard Wright Inspired Omer Aziz” in LitHub here
• Read Omer Aziz‘s piece in The Globe and Mail: “Last call for neoliberalism: What I saw at the party at the end of the world order” here
• Read a starred review of David Ulin‘s THIRTEEN QUESTION METHOD in Publishers Weekly here!
• Read Maggie Downs‘ food-pun-filled article in McSweeny’s “Welcome to Mary Oliver Garden” here
• Read Rebecca Giggs‘ piece in The Atlantic on the mysteriousness of owls here
• Read Omer Aziz‘s piece about the differing and confusing stances of the political parties in America in The Boston Globe, “Liberals need a clearer foreign policy,” here
• Rest in peace Diana Marcum. You can read an obituary for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and our beloved client in the Los Angeles Times here

July 2023

• Now Available: BUZZING, written by Samuel Sattin and illustrated by Rye Hickman! 
• Now Available: MALEFICENT #3 by Soo Lee! In stores now (7/5)!
• Congratulations to Michelle Black on winning a 2023 Nonfiction Book Gold Award for SACRIFICE from the Nonfiction Authors Association!
• Read Omer Aziz‘s recent op-ed in the Boston Globe: “I saw how Yale produces radical conservatives” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed for the Los Angeles Times: “The Supreme Court rewrote the law so that it could stop student loan assistance” here 
• Read Emily St. James‘ op-ed in The New York Times: “I Am Being Pushed Out of One of the Last Public Squares, the Library” here
• Listen to Thom Shanker and Andrew Hoehn talk about AGE OF DANGER on the podcast Chatter on Books here
• Listen to David Lebovitz talk about his career on the podcast Everything Cookbooks here
• Read and interview with Thom Shanker in the Washington Examiner discussing AGE OF DANGER here

June 2023

• New Deal Alert: Lev Grossman and Lilah Sturges‘ adult fantasy space opera graphic novel series THE HEAVENS has sold to Inklore, a new imprint of Penguin Random House, for publication in 2027. See the announcement here
• New Deal Alert: Rye Hickman is illustrating Andrew Wheeler’s YA graphic novel HEY, MARY, to be published by Oni Press in fall 2025. See the announcement here
• New Deal Alert: Dean Schillinger‘s TELLTALE HEARTS, a collection of stories from his decades of experience at a public hospital, has sold to Public Affairs for publication in fall 2024. See announcement here! 
• Now Available In Paperback: WORSE THAN NOTHING by Erwin Chemerinsky!
• Now Available: MALEFICENT #2 by Soo Lee! Available in stores now!
• Read the Publishers Weekly review of BUZZING by Rye Hickman and Samuel Sattin here!
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed in the Los Angeles Times: “Why today’s Supreme Court decision on voting rights is such a shock” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed in The New York Times: “Time Is Running Out for John Roberts and the Supreme Court” here
• Read Radcliffe Magazine‘s interveiw with Omer Aziz: “No Longer an Outsider” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed in the Los Angeles Times: “The Supreme Court’s ultimate ‘judicial activism’: striking down affirmative action in college admissions” here

May 2023

• Congratulations! Angie Cruz is a finalist for the 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. See the announcement here
• New Deal Alert: Ross Perlin‘s LANGUAGE CITY, an exploration of the vast linguistic landscape of New York City and a portrait of six remarkable speakers and writers of some of the 700 languages found in the city, to Peter Blackstock at Grove/Atlantic, for publication in winter 2024, by Bonnie Nadell. See announcement here!
• Now Available: MALEFICENT by Soo Lee! Available via Dynamite Digital here!
• Now Available: AGE OF DANGER: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats by Andrew Hoehn and Thom Shanker! Learn about the book here
• Now Available in paperback: Daniel Nieh‘s TAKE NO NAMES!
• Congratulations to our author Brian Williams, author of THE BODIES KEEP COMING (out 9/26) on announcing his run for Congress in Texas’ 32nd district! Read a profile on Dr. Williams in the Dallas Morning News here
• Listen to Richard Polsky discuss fraudulent fine art on NPR’s “On Point” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky’s latest op-ed for the Los Angeles Times on the implications behind a case of “judge shopping” in Texas here
• Listen to a discussion of AGE OF DANGER by Andrew Hoehn and Thom Shanker on NPR’s “Morning Edition” here

April 2023

• New Deal Alert: Myriam J. A. Chancy‘s VILLAGE WEAVERS, a novel following the intertwining lives of two young girls into their young adulthood in Port-au-Prince and their reconnection as elderly women in the United States to finally confront the revelation that separated them in childhood, to Masie Cochran at Tin House for publication in Winter 2024. See the announcement here
• Now Available: Omer Aziz‘s BROWN BOY: A MEMOIR
• Congratulations! THE KEEPER by Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes and illustrated by client Marco Finnegan is nominated for three Glyph Comics Awards– Story of the Year, Best Writer, & Best Female Character
• Congratulations! PUPPY PROBLEMS by Paige Braddock is the winner of the 2022-2023 Beverly Cleary Children’s Choice Award! See more info here
• Read Omer Aziz‘s latest op-ed “Why do so many young white men in America find fascism ‘cool’?” in the Los Angeles Times here
• Read Omer Aziz‘s piece in The Globe and Mail about the neighborhood he grew up in: “Scarborough made me who I am today. I love it. Why don’t you?” here

March 2023

• New Deal Alert: Rye Hickman is illustrating the DC Comics YA graphic novel BAD DREAM: A DREAMER STORY, the definitive origin story of Nia Nal, written by actress Nicole Maines, who brought the character to life on the CW’s “Supergirl,” to be published in April 2024. See the announcement here 
• New Deal Alert: Rye Hickman is illustrating Casey Gilly’s debut YA graphic novel FINISHING SCHOOL, to be published by IDW in Spring 2027. See the announcement here
• Now Available: Samuel Sattin‘s graphic novel interpretation of SONG OF THE SEA! Get it here
• Congratulations! Angie Cruz is a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize for HOW NOT TO DROWN IN A GLASS OF WATER! See announcement here
• Read Daniel Nieh‘s review of Walter Mosley’s novel EVERY MAN A KING for The New York Times Book Review here
• Read Kirkus Reviews’ take on Andrew Hoehn and Thom Shanker‘s AGE OF DANGER, calling the work “a detailed examination of the flawed U.S. national security apparatus,” here
• Listen to Wondery podcast AGAINST THE ODDS featuring the story of a brutal bear attack and our author Caroline van Hemert as a guest!
• Read Omer Aziz‘s piece on Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan, and suits for Air Mail here
• Read Shannon Reed‘s humorous piece for the New Yorker Daily Shouts, “Every Conversation I Have with Parent Friends, but with Farm Animals Substituted for Their Children” here

 

February 2023

• New Deal Alert: Harshini Vankineni’s debut picture book WHAT COLOR IS THE BABY? takes a loaded question steeped in colorism and creates a beautifully moving journey as one little girl finds a new, open-hearted, and loving way to welcome a new baby sister, to Carter Hasegawa at Candlewick Press, with Neha Rawat Battish illustrating, for publication in Spring 2025, by Dara Hyde (world)
• New Deal Alert: Jamie Harrison‘s THE RIVER VIEW, a new mystery in her Blue Deer Montana series, set in 1997, with a sheriff-turned-P.I. hired by the county to locate some misplaced bodies in a potter’s field, only to find himself pulled back into the case of his long-ago murdered father while dealing with erratic new neighbors, together with the four backlist titles in the series (THE EDGE OF THE CRAZIES, GOING LOCAL, AN UNFORTUNATE PRAIRIE OCCURRENCE, AND BLUE DEER THAW), to Dan Smetanka at Counterpoint, in an exclusive submission, in a five-book deal, for publication in fall 2024, by Dara Hyde at Hill Nadell Literary Agency
• New Deal Alert: Soo Lee is writing and illustrating the DISNEY VILLAINS: MALEFICENT series, a stunning new vision of villainy, to Nathan Cosby at Dynamite, with Issue #1 releasing in May 2023, by Dara Hyde (world). See the announcement here
• Now Available: CARMILLA: THE FIRST VAMPIRE is out in stores wherever comics and books are sold!
• Congratulations! THE KEEPER by Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes and illustrated by client Marco Finnegan made the ALA 2022 Best Graphic Novels Reading (Adult) list! See the announcement here
• Congratulations to Ben Weissenbach on being selected to be part of the 2023 class of Gates Cambridge Scholars at the University of Cambridge! See the announcement here
• Read this profile in Chicago Magazine on Gene Ha detailing how he pulls inspiration for his comics from collectibles and local Chicago spots!
• Read and listen to Gioconda Belli on NPR’s Weekend Edition talking about the current political climate in Nicaragua, and the hundreds of people being stripped of citizenship here

January 2023

• Now Available: CARMILLA: THE FIRST VAMPIRE by Amy Chu and client Soo Lee hit shelves in comic stores on the 11th, and will be in bookstores next month!
• Congratulations to Tori Ann Johnson and Marco Finnegan, both nominated for the NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Literary Work–Fiction for their works LIGHT SKIN GONE TO WASTE and THE KEEPER, respectively!
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed in the Los Angeles Times about the latest Supreme Court ruling on Title 42 here. In addition, if you’re located near Los Angeles, Erwin is doing a speaking series at the Hammer Museum on the Supreme Court. Dates are 1/22, 2/22, and 3/22 and more info can be found here
• Read and listen to the KCRW segment on Sue Carpenter, her illegal 90s pirate radio station, and the immersive theater experience adapted from her book, 40 WATTS FROM NOWHERE here. If you’re near Los Angeles, you can get tickets to the 40 WATTS experience here!

December 2022

• Congratulations to Myriam J.A. Chancy and Angie Cruz for being longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize by New Literary Project! See the announcement here
• Congratulations! Angie Cruz and HOW NOT TO DROWN IN A GLASS OF WATER were longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize! The winner will be announced in April of 2023. See the announcement here
• Congratulations once more to Angie Cruz! HOW NOT TO DROWN won the award for Best Literary Fiction of 2022 from Shereads! See announcement here
• Read David Ulin‘s op-ed for the Los Angeles Times on the passing of P-22, an iconic Los Angeles mountain lion who sadly passed away this month, here
• Read “Six Classic Books That Live Up to Their Reputation” in The Atlantic, featuring David Foster Wallace‘s INFINITE JEST here
• Read Holly Haworth‘s nostalgic and wistful piece “Once Upon a High Lonesome” in Oxford American here
• Read Peyton Thomas‘ opinion piece in The New York Times, “Did the Mother of Young Adult Literature Identify as a Man?” about Louisa May Alcott here 
• Happy Holidays!

November 2022

• New Deal Alert: Samuel Sattin and Patrick Macias‘s A KID’S GUIDE TO ANIME AND MANGA: EXPLORING THE HISTORY OF JAPANESE ANIMATION AND COMICS, a fact-filled, celebratory middle grade illustrated handbook explaining the origins of anime and manga, to Britny Brooks-Perilli at Running Press Kids, for publication in Fall 2023, by Dara Hyde (world). 
• Now Available in paperback: THE PERISHING by Natashia Deón
• Congratulations to Angie Cruz! HOW NOT TO DROWN IN A GLASS OF WATER is nominated for Goodreads’ Best Books of 2022 in the category Fiction! In addition, HOW NOT TO DROWN is on Amazon’s Top 100 Books of the Year list!
• Congratulations again to Angie Cruz! HOW NOT TO DROWN IN A GLASS OF WATER is one of The New York Times‘ 100 Notable Books of 2022, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
• Congratulations to our authors for making The Washington Post‘s Best Books of the Year lists! Angie Cruz is on the Fiction list for HOW NOT TO DROWN IN A GLASS OF WATER, and Marco Finnegan is on the Graphic Novels list for his work on THE KEEPER
• Congratulations to Marco Finnegan! THE KEEPER, written by Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes and illustrated by Marco, made NPR’s Books We Love 2022 list!
• Read and listen to Myriam J.A. Chancy talk about Haiti and what books to read to better understand the country on NPR here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s latest op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, “When a Berkeley Law debate on free speech got turned into a social media circus,” here 
• Read Robert Moor‘s longform story in the New Yorker on Ryan Neil and bonsai trees here
• Read the Los Angeles Review of Books‘ review of Erwin Chemerinksy‘s WORSE THAN NOTHING here
• Read NewPages‘ review of Katherine Standefer‘s LIGHTNING FLOWERS here

October 2022

• New Deal Alert: Maggie Downs‘s 50 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU’RE 5, a guided journal to foster a lifetime of adventure in 50 journeys with your toddler, to Rachel Hiles at Chronicle, for publication in spring 2024, by Dara Hyde (world)
• New Deal Alert: Damon Krukowski‘s WHY SOUND MATTERS, an exploration of silence, noise, and music in our modern age, as part of the Why…Matters series, to Seth Ditchik at Yale University Press, for publication in fall 2024, by Dara Hyde (world)
• Now Available: Toni Ann Johnson‘s LIGHT SKIN GONE TO WASTE
• Congratulations to Omer Aziz! His upcoming memoir BROWN BOY received a starred review from Publishers Weekly
• Congratulations to Lilah Sturges! GIRL HAVEN is a finalist for the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics
• Congratulations to Myriam J. A. Chancy! WHAT STORM, WHAT THUNDER is a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Fiction
• Read Sebastian Rotella‘s investigative piece “How a Chinese American Gangster Transformed Money Laundering for Drug Cartels” for ProPublica here
• Read also, part two of Sebastian Rotella‘s deep dive into this topic, in “The Globetrotting Con Man and Suspected Spy Who Met With President Trump” for ProPublica here
• Read and listen to Erwin Chemerinsky‘s thoughts on the Supreme Court’s new term from his appearance on NPR’s “On Point” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinksy‘s op-ed along the same lines for the Los Angeles Times, “As a new Supreme Court term begins, prepare for the law to move even more to the right” here
• Read Maggie Downs‘ piece in Insider about helping her 8-year-old kid, and herself, deal with anxiety here
• Read the Publishers Weekly interview with Omer Aziz about his upcoming memoir BROWN BOY here

September 2022

• Read our September Newsletter here!
• Now Available: THE KEEPER written by Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes, illustrated by client Marco Finnegan, colors by Alexandria Batchelor
• Now Available: Erwin Chemerinsky‘s WORSE THAN NOTHING: THE DANGEROUS FALLACY OF ORIGINALISM
• Now Available: Angie Cruz‘s HOW NOT TO DROWN IN A GLASS OF WATER
• Read The New York Times review of HOW NOT TO DROWN IN A GLASS OF WATER here
• Read the Los Angeles Times review of HOW NOT TO DROWN IN A GLASS OF WATER here
• Read the Washington Post review of HOW NOT TO DROWN IN A GLASS OF WATER here
• Congratulations to Kate Racculia! Her book TUESDAY MOONEY TALKS TO GHOSTS is the Somerville Public Library’s pick for their Somerville Reads yearly series.
• Congratulations Myriam J.A. Chancy on winning the 2022 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation with WHAT STORM, WHAT THUNDER
• Read Daniel Nieh‘s piece in Esquire Magazine “Confessions of a Male Model” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed in the Los Angeles Times “How the scourge of originalism is taking over the Supreme Court” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s piece in The Atlantic “Even the Founders Didn’t Believe in Originalism” here

August 2022

• Now Available: 007 #1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, with art by Marco Finnegan (featuring an alternative cover by Soo Lee)
• Now Available in paperback: Myriam J.A. Chancy‘s  WHAT STORM, WHAT THUNDER
• Read the Kirkus Reviews review of Erwin Chemerinsky‘s WORSE THAN NOTHING here
• Congratulations to David Ulin. His essay “The Pastures of the Empty Page,” published in Alta Journal, received a notable mention in The Best American Essays 2022.
• Congratulations to Natashia Deón on her nomination for the 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards in Fiction for her novel THE PERISHING!
• Congratulations to Kianny Antigua! The bilingual edition for Plantanos Go With Everything by Lissette Norman, for which Kianny did the Spanish translation, is Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, announced by the author on Twitter here
• Read David Ulin‘s op-ed in the Los Angeles Times “When America’s public narrative fractures, can we still find our truth in books?” here
• Read Damon Krukowski‘s piece in Vanity Fair “It’s Time for Big-Name Artists to Join Music’s New Labor Movement” here
• Read Diana Marcum‘s piece in the Los Angeles Times “In the ashes of a devastating Sierra fire, a flower farm blooms” here
• Read Daniel Nieh‘s review of My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson for The New York Times Book Review here
• Read Kathryn E. McGee‘s fiction piece “Saving Face” in Kelp Journal here
• Read Kimi Eisele‘s piece “Collaborations with nature” for High Country News here
• Read this profile of Katie Orphan and her book READ ME LOST ANGELES on Los Angeles Daily News here

July 2022

• Now Available: Daniel Nieh‘s TAKE NO NAMES
• Now Available: Kathryn E. McGee has a story in CHROMOPHOBIA: A STRANGEHOUSE ANTHOLOGY BY WOMEN IN HORROR
• Congratulations to Lilah Sturges for her Inkpot Award at San Diego ComicCon! See Twitter announcement by the author here
• Read The New York Times review of TAKE NO NAMES here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s piece in ABA Journal “This SCOTUS term moved the law ‘dramatically in a conservative direction'” here
• Read Maggie Downs’ piece in the Washington Post “Isolating in Iceland gave me a new outlook in uncertain” here
• Read David Ulin‘s op-ed in the Los Angeles Times “Why inappropriate books are the best kind” here
• Read Adriana Ramírez‘s piece in The Atlantic “What It’s Like to Lose on ‘Jeopardy'” here
• Read this profile of Annie Connole and her memoir THE SPRING in the Desert Sun here
• Read the piece in The New Yorker about David Foster Wallace‘s final novel “David Foster Wallace’s Final Attempt to Make Art Moral” here

June 2022

• New Deal Alert: Thurber Prize finalist and New Yorker contributor Shannon Reed‘s WHY WE READ, an exploration of the joys of reading informed by the author’s decades as a teacher and lifelong bibliophile, celebrating the books we love, the readers who love them, and the surprising ways in which literature can transform us, to John Glynn at Hanover Square Press, by Bonnie Nadell (world).
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s piece in ABA Journal “Supreme Court gun ruling puts countless firearms regulations in jeopardy” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s piece in Time “Abortion is about to Dominate American Politics” here
• Read Peyton Thomas‘ piece in Oprah Daily “The Radical Acceptance Behind ‘Little Women'” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed in the Los Angeles Times “The Supreme Court is dismantling the wall between church and state” here
• Read Rebecca Giggs piece in The Atlantic “How Primate Research was Hijacked by Sexist Ideologues” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s piece in the Sacramento Bee “Ideology, not the Second Amendment prevents gun regulation” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s piece in the Los Angeles Times “The Supreme Court once more weakens protections for violated rights” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s piece in ABA Journal “Supreme Court imposes further restrictions on habeas corpus” here

May 2022

• New Deal Alert: THE SONG OF THE SEA and THE SECRET OF KELLS, the graphic novel adaptations of Cartoon Saloon’s award-winning Irish Folklore Trilogy, again to be adapted by Samuel Sattin (WOLFWALKERS), based on the animated features of the same name, to Regan Winter with Samantha Schutz editing at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, for publication in 2023 and 2024, by Dara Hyde (world).
• Now Available: Carleton Eastlake‘s MONKEY BUSINESS
• Now Available in paperback: Michelle Black‘s SACRIFICE
• Now Available in paperback: Katherine Standefer‘s LIGHTNING FLOWERS
• Congratulations! Wesley Morgan‘s THE HARDEST PLACE has been awarded the William E. Colby Award for military and intelligence writing.
• Congratulations! Jordan Morris for his his Eisner nominations for BUBBLE in Best Humor Publication and Best Adaptation from Another Medium
• Congratulations! Triple Dream Comics: Mel Hilario, Katie Longua, and Lauren Davis for their Eisner nomination for Best Short Story for “Trickster, Traitor, Dummy, Doll.”
• Congratulations! Omer Aziz has been awarded the Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University. 
• Read Maggie Down’s piece with BBC “The world’s true cradle of chocolate” here
• Read Caroline Van Hemert‘s piece in the New York Times “A Family Measures Milestones on an Alaskan Cycling Trip” here
• Read Rebecca Gigg‘s piece in The Atlantic “How Primate Research was Hijacked by Sexist Ideologues”  here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed in the East Bay Times “Abortion draft is right-wing GOP politics masquerading as law” here
• Read Kathryn E. McGee‘s piece in The Lineup “More than Just Meat: The Evolution of the Cannibal Film” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed in the Los Angeles Times “The brazenly political Supreme Court shows it will strike down abortion rights” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s piece in ABA Journal “SCOTUS clarifies First Amendment debate over content regulation of signs” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s piece in the San Francisco Chronicle “No, Ron DeSantis’ battle with Disney isn’t just political grandstanding” here

April 2022

• New Deal Alert: Janna Brancolini‘s BREAKING THE SURFACE: THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF HONOR FROST AND THE DAWN OF UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY, which blends science, art, and history to narrate the life story of Frost, one of the first female scuba divers who discovered and excavated major shipwrecks and underwater sites around the world to Anna Devries at St. Martin’s by Bonnie Nadell (NA)
• Read M.E. Johnson‘s piece in Task & Purpose “How a veteran court judge confronted his own survivor’s guilt” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s piece in ABA Journal “Supreme Court reflects nation’s deep divide over Constitution and religion” here

March 2022

• Now Available: Diana Marcum’s THE FALLEN STONES
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky’s op-ed in the Washington Post “Free speech doesn’t mean hecklers get to shut down campus debate” here
• Read Sebastian Rotella’s piece in ProPublica “DOJ charges defendants with harassing and spying on Chinese Americans for Beijing” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed in Common Dreams “On the slimy GOP smears against Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson” here

February 2022

• Read Roanne Van Voorst‘s interview with Vice “Sex Robots and VR Porn: Sex in the Future Looks Wild” here
• Read Roanne Van Voorst’s in Psychology Today “Will the Future of Food Be a World Without Meat?” here
• Read Diana Marcum‘s piece in the Los Angeles Times “The Return of California’s Tule Fog” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s piece in The Sacramento Bee “To replace Breyer, Biden must pick a progressive who will serve the high court for decades” here
• Read Diana Marcum‘s piece in the Los Angeles Times “Monarch butterflies lift spirits along California’s coast” here
• Read Maggie Down‘s essay in Aljazeera “Lost to Alzheimer’s: Losing Mom but finding her magic cheesecake” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s piece in ABA Journal “Justice Breyer is a model for all who sit on a judicial bench” here

January 2022

• Now available: Samara Parish‘s HOW TO DECEIVE A DUKE
• Now available: Roanne van Voorst’s ONCE UPON A TIME WE ATE ANIMALS
• Now available in paperback: Jamie Harrison‘s THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING 
• Congratulations Amber Padilla! THE SECRET GARDEN ON 81ST STREET is on the ALA Best Graphic Novels for Children List
• Congratulations Lilah Sturges! GIRL HAVEN has been shortlisted for a GLAAD Media Award
• Congratulations Natashia Deon! THE PERISHING is a NAACP Image Award nominee. Read more here.
• Congratulations to Kathryn E. Mcgee. Her short story, “Golden Hour,” is forthcoming in CHROMOPHOBIA. Read more here
• Read Shannon Reed‘s piece “Why the European Cannabis Market Is So Attractive to U.S. Vaporizer Brands” in the Green Entrepreneur here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed “What do we teach law students when we have no faith in the Supreme Court?” in the Los Angeles Times here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed in the Daily Press “Ending affirmative action will continue the U.S. legacy of racial discrimination” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed: “Will the Supreme Court back mandates for COVID vaccines?” in the Los Angeles Times here

December 2021

• New Deal: Lilah Sturges writes a new story for the Buffy the Vampire 25th Anniversary Special, set for publication in 2022, by Dara Hyde. Read more here
• Congratulations to Diana Marcum on her starred review for THE FALLEN STONES from Publisher’s Weekly!
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed “Why I’ve never been more worried about American democracy—and what we can do to save it” in The Sacramento Bee here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed “The most significant Supreme Court cases of 2021” in ABA Journal here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s piece “To rein in police, look to states, not court” in the New York Times here
• Read Sebastian Rotella‘s piece “Purdue President condemns tactics used to censor Chinese students on U.S. campuses” in ProPublica here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed “Supreme Court decision on Texas abortion law puts all of our constitutional rights in jeopardy” in the Los Angeles Times here

November 2021

• Now available: Natashia Deón‘s THE PERISHING
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed in ABA Journal “Ruling in abortion cases will greatly affect women’s lives but won’t end controversy” here
• Read Diana Marcum‘s piece in the Los Angeles Times “Omicron variant spreads globally, fueling fears of winter surge” here
• Read Maggie Down‘s piece in Afar “Smell your way to better travel memories” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed in the Los Angeles Times “The verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial sends a chilling message” read
• Read Rebecca Giggs piece in The Atlantic “Animals of the Future” here
• Read Gioconda Belli‘s op-ed in the Los Angeles Times “Daniel Ortega, the freedom fighter-turned-despot in Nicaragua, runs for reelection” here
• Read Natashia Deón‘s op-ed with the Los Angeles Times “Virginia’s Beloved controversy shows there can be no healing without pain” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed in the Los Angeles Times “The Texas abortion law may have gone too far — even for conservative Supreme Court justices” here

October 2021

• Now available: J.M. Thompson‘s RUNNING IS A KIND OF DREAMING
• Now available: Amber Padilla illustrates THE SECRET GARDEN ON 81ST STREET
• Congratulations Toni Ann Johnson! Her short story collection LIGHT SKIN GONE TO WASTE won the Flannery O’Connor Award and is forthcoming from University of Georgia Press
• Congratulations to Gene Ha, recipient of the Baltimore Comic-Con #RingoAwards Hero Initiative’s 2021 Dick Giordano Humanitarian Award!
• See Wesley Morgan‘s THE HARDEST PLACE highlighted by Senator Elizabeth Warren during a senate committee on Afghanistan here
• Read Andrew Selee‘s op-ed in the New York Times “On Migration, Will the Americas Succeed Where Europe Could Not?” here
• Read an excerpt of Natashia Deón‘s THE PERISHING in Harper’s here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky in the Richmond Times-Dispatch “Biden’s Death Penalty Hypocrisy” here
• Read Diana Marcum‘s front page op-ed in the Los Angeles Times “A U.S. Road Trip Through Troubled COVID times” here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s “How the Supreme Court’s conservatives will change your rights” in the Los Angeles Times here

September 2021

 

• New Deal: Jordan Morris and Bowen McCurdy’s YOUTH GROUP, about a cynical young goth who reluctantly joins the youth group at her local mega-church only to discover that the Christian youth are sneaking out at night to slay actual demons to Calista Brill at First Second with Alison Wilgus also editing for publication in 2024 by Senior Agent Dara Hyde for the author (world)
• New Deal: Author Kristen Kiesling and illustrator Jen Hickman‘s THE HARROWING, a YA graphic novel set in the near future about a psychic teen girl i who is forced to use her powers to track down killers, until she discovers her boyfriend is her next target to Charlotte Greenbaum at Abrams Amulet for publication on the Amulet list in spring 2024, Senior Agent Dara Hyde for the illustrator (world)
• Now available: Lilah Sturges in WONDERFUL WOMEN OF THE WORLD
• Congratulations! Rebecca Giggs has been highly commended on the shortlist for the Wainright Prize for Global Conservation
• Congratulations! Natashia Deón‘s THE PERISHING has been named November Indie Next Pick
• Read Toni Anne Johnson‘s story “This Side or That” in Aunt Chloe here
• Read David Ulin‘s review of Larry Elder’s books for The Los Angeles times here.
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed “How the Texas abortion law could spawn threats to other constitutional rights” in the Chattanooga Times Free Press here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s piece “Endangering people is not a personal freedom. That’s why vaccine mandates are constitutional” in the The Sacramento Bee here

 

August 2021

 

• Now available: Peyton Thomas‘ BOTH SIDES NOW
• Now available: Erwin Chemerinsky‘s PRESUMED GUILTY
• Congratulations! Rebecca Giggs is the winner of the WA Premier’s Prize for Emerging Writer
• Congratulations! Rebecca Giggs has been shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation.
• Read Mark Johnson‘s op-ed “Did the American troops who were killed in Afghanistan die in vain?” in the Los Angeles Times here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed “It’s not too late to stop California’s recall election” in the Los Angeles Times here
• Read Rob Moor‘s review “The Wonders That Live at the Very Bottom of the Sea” in The New York Times here
• Read Wesley Morgan‘s piece “He spent his adult life helping U.S. soldiers. Now, he’s desperately fleeing Afghanistan” in Washington Post here
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s piece “There’s a Problem With California’s Recall. It’s Unconstitutional” in the New York Times here
• Read Caroline Van Hemert‘s piece “It’s No Fun to Wake a Sleeping Bear” in Outside here

 

 

July 2021

 

• New Deal: Writers Mel Hilario and Lauren Davis, and illustrator Katie Longua‘s AGENT CUPCAKE, a middle grade novel about a 12-year-old who has been recruited as the first human field agent by the mystical beast bureau, in his first case with his unicorn partner, to Oni Press, by Dara Hyde (world)
• Now available: Jordan Morris‘s BUBBLE
• Now available in paperback: Rebecca Giggs‘ FATHOMS
• Now available in paperback: Liska Jacob‘s THE WORST KIND OF WANT
• Congratulations! Brian Williams, MD has been selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows at the National Academy of Medicine
• Read Diana Marcum‘s piece “Drought has taken the water from this farmer’s wells, but for her, life still gives” in the Los Angeles Times here.
• Read Katherine E. Standefer‘s Op-Ed “Doctors are urged to screen kids for heart issues. That could have helped my sister and me” in the Los Angeles Times here.
• Read Firoozeh Dumas‘s Op-Ed “My mother has been a citizen diplomat” in the Los Angeles Times here.

 

 

June 2021

 

• New Deal: Editor-in-chief of Otaku USA Magazine and founding editor of Crunchyroll News Patrick Macias and graphic novel author Samuel Sattin‘s CRUNCHYROLL’S ESSENTIAL ANIME, a deep dive into 50 beloved and defining anime series, including behind the scenes information, cultural impact, and more, to Running Press by Senior Agent Dara Hyde (world).
• New Deal: Coauthor of the NYT-bestselling and Eisner award-winning THEY CALLED US ENEMY Justin Eisinger‘s WE BUILT IT! ROLLERCOASTERS and WE BUILT IT! BRIDGES, which bring the world of inventions to life with graphic storytelling and illustrations that explore the history of inventions and the trial-and-error process of innovation, illustrated by Cryssy Cheung, to Chronicle Children’s by Senior Agent Dara Hyde (world).
• Congratulations to Peyton Thomas! BOTH SIDES NOW received a starred review of Kirkus Reviews. Read the review here.
• Congratulations to Marco Finnegan! LIZARD IN A ZOOT SUIT is a Finalist for the Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards: Young Adult Fiction. See the full list here.
• Congratulations to Rebecca Giggs! FATHOMS: THE WORLD IN THE WHALE is longlisted for the 2021 Wainwright Prize for writing on Global Conservation. See the full list here.
• Congratulations to David Lebovitz! DRINKING FRENCH is a finalist for an IACP 2021 Cookbooks Award. See the full list here.
• Read Diana Marcum‘s piece “Summer dreams dry up on the Russian River, a paradise whipsawed by drought, flood and fire” for the Los Angeles Times here.
• Read Shannon Reed‘s humor essay in The New Yorker here.
• Read Omer Aziz‘s opinion piece “Islamophobia begins with ideas. It always ends in violence.” for The Globe and Mail here.
• Read Rebecca Giggs‘s piece “A Better Way to Look a Trees” for The Atlantic here.
• Read Caroline Van Hemert‘s piece “A Family Trip on the Lost Coast” in Alaska Magazine here.
• Read Angie Cruz‘s interview “Write the Book You Want” with Los Angeles Review of Books here.
• Read David McGlynn‘s piece in USA Today here.

 

May 2021

 

• Now Available: Toni Ann Johnson‘s HOMEGOING (Accents Publishing)
• Now Available: Michelle Black‘s SACRIFICE (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• Now Available: THE BLACK GHOST: HARD REVOLUTION by Alex Segura, and Monica Gallagher (Dark Horse Comics)
• Now Available: Annie Connole‘s THE SPRING (Chin Music Press)
• Now Available in Paperback: Maggie Downs‘s BRAVER THAN YOU THINK (Counterpoint Press)
• Now Available: Samara Parish‘s HOW TO SURVIVE A SCANDAL (Forever)
• Congratulations to Maggie Downs! BRAVER THANK YOU THINK is a Finalist for the Ohioana Book Award in Nonfiction. See the announcement here.
• Read Natashia Deon‘s essay in The New York Times’ piece “12 Mothers on Their Strengths” here.
• Read Kathryn E. McGee‘s short story “Mondays are for Meat” in Ladies of the Fright here.
• Read Maggie Downs‘s essay “I got sober in the pandemic.” in The Lily here.

 

April 2021

 

• Read our April Newsletter here.
• New Deal: Audio rights to Alex Segura, Monica Gallagher, and George Kambadais‘s THE BLACK GHOST series, beginning with HARD REVOLUTION, to GraphicAudio by Senior Agent Dara Hyde at (world English).
• New Deal: Author of GMA Book Club selection DOMINICANA Angie Cruz‘s ANGELICA AND LA GUIRA, following a little girl in Washington Heights who has been gifted a guira by her grandfather in the Dominican Republic, illustrated by Luz Batista, to Kokila by Senior Agent Dara Hyde (world).
• Now Available: Jenny Price‘s STOP SAVING THE PLANET (W.W. Norton).
• Now Available: JOAN DIDION: THE 1980s & 90s edited by David L. Ulin (Library of America).
• Congratulations to Samara Parish! HOW TO SURVIVE A SCANDAL is a Publishers Weekly Summer Reads: Romance pick. See the list here.
• Congratulations to Jordan Morris! BUBBLE received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. Read the review here.
• Congratulations to Jordan Morris! BUBBLE is a Publishers Weekly Summer Reads: Comics pick. See the list here.
• Read Maggie Downs‘s essay “Zones of Avoidance” in the Los Angeles Review of Books here.

 

March 2021

 

• Now Available: Wesley Morgan‘s THE HARDEST PLACE (Random House).
• Congratulations to Samara Parish! HOW TO SURVIVE A SCANDAL received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. Read the review here.
• Congratulations to Katherine E. Standefer! LIGHTNING FLOWERS hit #1 on Amazon’s Audible Bestseller List!
• Congratulations to Samara Parish! HOW TO SURVIVE A SCANDAL received a starred review from Booklist.
• Congratulations to Michelle Black! SACRIFICE received a starred review from Booklist.
• Read David L. Ulin‘s op-ed “A year later on the long coronavirus road to change” for the Los Angeles Times here.
• Read Jill Kolongowski‘s micro-essay “This is Orange” on River Teeth here.
• Read Kathryn E. McGee‘s short story “Sunshine and Sea Air” on Scoundrel Time here.
• Read David McGlynn‘s short story “Heron Lane” in Story Magazine here.
• Read Damon Krukowski‘s piece “We Couldn’t Tour. So We Started a Union.” in New York Times Magazine‘s Music Issue here.

 

February 2021

 

• New Deal: Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and Carnegie Award-winning author of FATHOMS Rebecca Giggs‘s PET: THE FUTURE OF THE ANIMALS WE KEEP, pitched as a BOTANY OF DESIRE but for pets, revealing how we’ve domesticated them, they’ve domesticated us, and how that relationship will continue to evolve as there’s less “wild” in our globalizing and warming world, to Simon & Schuster by President & Agent Bonnie Nadell (NA).
• New Deal: Rebecca Giggs‘s PET: THE FUTURE OF THE ANIMALS WE KEEP to Scribe (ANZ).
• Now Available: Lilah Sturges‘s GIRL HAVEN (Oni Press).
• Congratulations to Rebecca Giggs! Her book, FATHOMS: THE WORLD IN THE WHALE, is the winner of the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Nonfiction. Read the announcement here.
• Congratulations to Rebecca Giggs! Her book, FATHOMS: THE WORLD IN THE WHALE, is a finalist for the 2021 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Award. Read the announcement here.
• Congratulations to Maggie Downs! BRAVER THAN YOU THINK hit #1 on Amazon’s Bestseller List!
• Congratulations to Jamie Harrison! THE WIDOW NASH hit #1 on Amazon’s Bestseller List!
• Read Diana Marcum‘s piece “One house, two doctors, three generations and the long-awaited relief of a vaccine” for the Los Angeles Times here.

 

January 2021

 

• Read our January Newsletter here.
• New Deal: Author-illustrator Amber Padilla‘s debut YA SUGAR COATED, in which a Latinx protagonist is the awkward new girl trying to fit in and find love using her talent for baking and a fake, sugar-coated online profile, to Graphix by Senior Agent Dara Hyde.
• Now Available: Jamie Harrison’s THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING (Counterpoint Press).
• Read Senior Agent Dara Hyde’s interview on The Darling Axe here.

 

December 2020

 

• Now Available: WOLFWALKERS: The Graphic Novel adapted by Samuel Sattin (Little, Brown for Young Readers)
• Congratulations to Kate Racculia! TUESDAY MOONEY TALKS TO GHOSTS is number 7 on Indie Next’s Winter 2020-21 list of “For Reading Groups.” See the picks here.
• Congratulations to Jamie Harrison! THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING is an ABA Indie Next January 2021 pick. See the announcement here.
• Congratulations! FATHOMS by Rebecca Giggs and LIGHTNING FLOWERS by Katherine E. Standefer are on Kirkus Reviews‘s list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2020! See the list here.
• Congratulations to Marco Finnegan! LIZARD IN A ZOOT SUIT is one of AIPT’s Best Comics of the Year. See the list here.
• Congratulations to Rebecca Giggs! FATHOMS: THE WORLD IN THE WHALE is one of Slate‘s Best Books of 2020! See the list here.
• Congratulations to Rebecca Giggs! FATHOMS: THE WORLD IN THE WHALE is one of The Guardian‘s 20 Best Australian Books of 2020. See the list here.
• Congratulations to Rebecca Giggs! FATHOMS: THE WORLD IN THE WHALE is on the longlist for the 2021 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. See the announcement here.
• Read Natashia Deón‘s essay “My Father’s Badge and Gun” on Air/Light Magazine here.

 

November 2020

 

• Now Available: Katherine E. Standefer‘s LIGHTNING FLOWERS (Little, Brown Spark)
• Congratulations to Katherine E. Standefer! Her essay “At the University Inn” is a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2020.
• Congratulations to Rebecca Giggs! FATHOMS: THE WORLD IN THE WHALE has been shortlisted for the American Library Association’s 2021 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. See the announcement here.
• Congratulations to Katherine E. Standefer! LIGHTNING FLOWERS is a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. See the list here.
• Congratulations to Rebecca Giggs! FATHOMS: THE WORLD IN THE WHALE is one of BookPage‘s Best Nonfiction Books of 2020. See the list here.
• Congratulations to Rebecca Giggs! FATHOMS: THE WORLD IN THE WHALE won the 2020 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award. See the announcement here.
• Read David Ulin’s essay discussing Alfred Hays’s work including “In Love,” “My Face for the World to See,” and “The End of Me” for the Harper’s Magazine here.
• Read: Angie Cruz gives her 2021 book recommendations on Undomesticated. See them here.
• Read Kayla Rae Whitaker‘s piece “Hillbilly Elegy is the last thing America needs in 2020″ for Electric Literature here.
• Read The New York Times review of LIGHTNING FLOWERS by Katherine E. Standefer here.
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed “Will the Affordable Care Act survive its latest trip to the Supreme Court?” for the Los Angeles Times here.
• Read: David L. Ulin shares “His Favorite California Books” for Alta Magazine here.

 

October 2020

 

• Now Available in Paperback: Kate Racculia‘s TUESDAY MOONEY TALKS TO GHOSTS (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Congratulations to Jamie Harrison! THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. Read the review here.
• Congratulations to Rebecca Giggs! FATHOMS: THE WORLD IN THE WHALE has been longlisted for the American Library Association’s 2021 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. See the announcement here.
• Read Adriana E. Ramírez‘s review of Mariah Carey’s memoir on Post Gazette here.
• Read David L. Ulin‘s op-ed “How the Trump administration ruined the census for me” for the Los Angeles Times here.
• Read Wesley Morgan‘s piece “Our secret Taliban air force” in The Washington Post here.
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s op-ed “The Philosophy That Makes Amy Coney Barrett So Dangerous” for The New York Times here.

 

September 2020

 

• Now Available: Shann Nix Jones‘s HOW TO START A BUSINESS ON YOUR KITCHEN TABLE (Hay House UK)
• Congratulations to Sonia Nazario! Parade Magazine named her one of the 50+ Most Influential Latin-American Women in History! See the full list here.
• Congratulations to Rebecca Giggs! Her book FATHOMS: THE WORLD IN THE WHALE is a 2020 Kirkus Prize Finalist! See the announcement here.
• Congratulations to Matt Mendez! His book BARELY MISSING EVERYTHING place 2nd in the 2020 International Latino Book Awards, Best Young Adult Fiction Book – English! Watch the announcement here.
• Congratulations to Wesley Morgan! THE HARDEST PLACE received a starred review from Library Journal. Read the review here.
• Congratulations to Katherine E. Standefer! LIGHTNING FLOWERS received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. Read the review here.
• Congratulations to Rebecca Giggs! Her book FATHOMS: THE WORLD IN THE WHALE is the 2020 winner of the Royal Zoological Society’s Whitley Award for Popular Zoology! See the announcement here.
• Read: Sonia Nazario reviews CONDITIONAL CITIZENS: BELONGING IN AMERICA by Laila Lalami for the New York Times Book Review. Read the review here.
• Read: UC Berkeley’s California Magazine features Sonia Nazario in their article “From Both Sides of the Aisle, These Women Make Their Ideas Heard.” Read it here.

 

August 2020

 

• New Deal: Frances Hodgson Burnett with text by Ivy Noelle Weir’s THE SECRET GARDEN ON 81ST STREET, in which an entitled loner moves to her uncle’s house in New York after losing her parents in a car accident and makes friends who help her restore her uncle’s abandoned rooftop garden and teach her to grieve and grow, illustrated by Amber Padilla, to Little, Brown Children’s by Senior Agent Dara Hyde for the illustrator.
• Now Available in Paperback: Angie Cruz‘s DOMINICANA (Flatiron Books)
• Now Available: Marco Finnegan‘s LIZARD IN A ZOOT SUIT (Graphic Universe)
• Congratulations to Wesley Morgan! THE HARDEST PLACE received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. Read the review here.
• Congratulations to Wesley Morgan! THE HARDEST PLACE received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. Read the review here.
• Read President & Agent Bonnie Nadell’s interview on The Darling Axe here.
• Read Adriana E. Ramírez‘s “Are Little Free Libraries helping locals survive COVID? L.A. weighs in” for Los Angeles Times here.
• Read David Darlington‘s op-ed “Wildfires, Pandemic, Earthquakes. What’s next for California?” for The New York Times here.
• Watch Daniel Nieh, interviewed by PBS News Hour, where he chats about his book BEIJING PAYBACK, the PBS News Hour/New York Times Now Read This Book Club pick for August here.

 

July 2020

 

• New Deal: Annie Connole‘s THE SPRING, a book-length lyric essay with photographs that traverses the wild landscapes of the American West to examine grief and transformation through the lens of mystical animal appearances following the sudden death of the narrator’s young partner, to Chin Music Press, by Dara Hyde.
• Now Available: Rebecca Giggs‘s FATHOMS: THE WORLD IN THE WHALE (Simon & Schuster)
• Now Available in Paperback: Alex Segura‘s MIAMI MIDNIGHT (Polis Books)
• Congratulations to Daniel Nieh! BEIJING PAYBACK is the PBS News Hour / New York Times Book Review Now Read This Book Club pick for August! See the announcement here.
• Congratulations to Rebecca Giggs! FATHOMS: THE WORLD IN THE WHALE is an Audible Editor’s Pick for July! See more here.
• Read Rebecca Giggs‘s Letter of Recommendation “I Didn’t Mean to Adopt a Dozen Pet Snails” for The New York Times Magazine here.
• Read: Daniel Nieh reviews BLACKTOP WASTELAND by S.A. Cosby for the New York Times Book Review here.
• Read David Ulin‘s op-ed “I love baseball, but not this Frankenstein’s monster of a season” for the Los Angeles Times here.
• Read Agent Kari Erickson’s interview on The Darling Axe here.

 

June 2020

 

• New Deal: Lilah Sturges‘s THE SCIENCE OF GHOSTS, equal parts horror, mystery, and queer love story in which a transgender parapsychologist is asked to investigate potential afterlife activities in the estate of a young heiress, illustrated by Alitha Martinez, to Legendary Comics by Dara Hyde.
• New Deal: Samuel Sattin and Jen Hickman‘s BUZZING, in which a 12-year-old learns to make friends and manage his OCD through imaginative gaming while navigating feelings towards his classmate, to Little, Brown Children’s by Senior Agent Dara Hyde.
• Now Available in Paperback: Kimi Eisele‘s THE LIGHTEST OBJECT IN THE UNIVERSE (Algonquin Books)
• Congratulations to Caroline Van Hemert! THE SUN IS A COMPASS is shortlisted for the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. See the announcement here.
• Watch: Sara Dahmen, author of COPPER, IRON & CLAY, is on NBC’s Today Show sharing about her journey to becoming a coppersmith here.
• Read David Ulin‘s op-ed, “You may be ready for bar-hopping, but I’m not “re-opening” yet” for the Los Angeles Times here.
• Read Jill Kolongowski‘s essay, “Timeline, Flattening: Everyday Life in a Pandemic” on the Los Angeles Review of Books here.

 

May 2020

 

• New Deal: Patrick Macias‘s AN ETERNAL THOUGHT IN THE MIND OF GODZILLA, a commentary on Japanese culture and recent history, featuring observations and anecdotes about the author being a native Californian living in Japan and immersing himself in movies, music, fashion, and local lore, as well as his thoughts on his own lifelong interest in Japanese culture and society, based on his blog of the same name, to Sutherland House by Dara Hyde.
• New Deal: Author Samuel Sattin and illustrator Christina “Steenz” Stewart’s SIDE QUEST: A VISUAL HISTORY OF ROLE PLAYING GAMES, the history of role-playing games from ancient China and India, to Europe, all the way to the modern versions played today, and including the creators’ personal stories of how they got interested in role-playing games themselves, to Imprint by Dara Hyde, for the author.
• Now Available: Maggie Downs‘s BRAVER THAN YOU THINK (Counterpoint Press)
• Now Available: Don Carpenter‘s MURDER OF THE FROGS AND OTHER STORIES (Dover Publications)
• Congratulations to Maggie Downs! BRAVER THAN YOU THINK received a starred review of Shelf Awareness. Read the review here.
• Read Natashia Deon‘s essay “I Accept Help More Readily” in The New York Times‘s feature “How Motherhood Changed Me…” here.
• Read Caroline Van Hemert‘s piece “How a Year Living Off the Grid With Kids Helped Prepare Me for the Global Pandemic” for Vogue here.
• Read: David Ulin reviews “In Praise of Walking” and “In Praise of Paths” for the New York Times Book Review here.

 

April 2020

 

• Congratulations to Angie Cruz! Her book DOMINICANA is shortlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize! See the announcement here.
• Congratulations to David Ulin! His essay “Bed” is a Best American Essays 2020 selection.
• Congratulations to Katie Orphan! Her book READ ME, LOS ANGELES debuted at #18 on the Los Angeles Times Bestseller List! See the list here.
• Congratulations to Caroline Van Hemert! Her book THE SUN IS A COMPASS is a PNBA IndieBound Bestseller! See the list here.
• Read Rebecca Solnit‘s piece, “‘The impossible has already happened’: what coronavirus can teach us about hope,” in The Guardian here.
• Read Caroline Van Hemert‘s essay, “What the Caribou Taught Me About Being Together, and Apart,” in The New York Times here.
• Deborah Treisman reads and discusses “Good People” by David Foster Wallace in The New Yorker. Listen here.
• Read Miranda Spivack‘s opinion piece, “An Early Casualty of the Coronavirus,” in Newsday here.
• Read Erwin Chemerinksy‘s op-ed, “No, Mr. President, Your Immigration Powers Are Not Unlimited,” in The New York Times here.
• New Deal: Samara Parish‘s HOW TO SURVIVE A SCANDAL, the first in a Regency-era romance series in which the daughter of an earl and the son of a footman find themselves unexpectedly forced into marriage after his well-meaning actions to save her life result in a disastrous misunderstanding, to Forever in a three-book deal by Agent Kari Erickson.
• Now Available in Paperback: Daniel Nieh‘s BEIJING PAYBACK (Ecco)
• Now Available: Sara Dahmen‘s COPPER, IRON, AND CLAY (William Morrow)
• Congratulations to Rebecca Giggs! FATHOMS received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. Read the review here.

 

March 2020

 

• Congratulations to Angie Cruz! Her novel DOMINICANA is longlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize. See the announcement here.
• The Cutaway profiles Emily VanDerWerff, coauthor of MONSTERS OF THE WEEK. Read the profile here.
• Read Caroline Van Hemert‘s op-ed, “For scientists like me, good research isn’t enough. We have to tell our stories,” for the Los Angeles Times here.
• Now Available: David Lebovitz‘s DRINKING FRENCH (Ten Speed Press)
• Now Available in Paperback: Matt Mendez‘s BARELY MISSING EVERYTHING (S&S/Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy)
• Now Available: Katie Orphan‘s READ ME, LOS ANGELES: EXPLORING L.A’S BOOK CULTURE (Prospect Park Books)
• Now Available: David Gallaher and Steve Ellis‘s THE ONLY LIVING GIRL VOL. 2 (Papercutz)
• Now Available: Stefany Anne Golberg‘s MY MORNINGLESS MORNINGS (Unnamed Press)
• Congratulations to Jamie Harrison! THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. Read the review here.

 

February 2020

 

• Read Sonia Nazario‘s op-ed “What Part of Illegal Don’t You Understand,” her family’s refugee story, for The New York Times here.
• Read Caroline Van Hemert‘s On Parenting essay, “Mommy will you be here forever,” for The Washington Post here.
• Now Available: Billy Mernit’s WRITING THE ROMANTIC COMEDY 20th Anniversary Edition (Harper Paperbacks)
• BARELY MISSING EVERYTHING by Matt Mendez and THE LIGHTEST OBJECT IN THE UNIVERSE by Kimi Eisele are nominated for 2020 MPIBA Reading the West Book Awards! Congratulations Matt and Kimi! See the list of nominees here.
• Now Available in Paperback: Caroline Van Hemert‘s THE SUN IS A COMPASS (Little, Brown Spark)

 

January 2020

 

• Congratulations to Angie Cruz! Her book DOMINICANA is a YALSA 2020 Alex Award Winner. See the announcement here.
• New Deal: Carleton Eastlake‘s MONKEY BUSINESS, about a conflicted TV writer on location in Florida who becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman at a nightclub when she upends everything he thought he understood about life, love, and power, to Red Hen Press by Senior Agent Dara Hyde.

 

December 2019

 

• Congratulations to Matt Mendez! His book BARELY MISSING EVERYTHING is a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2019. See the list here.

 

November 2019

 

• Slate names A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING I’LL NEVER DO AGAIN by David Foster Wallace one of “The 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years.” See the list here.
• Congratulations to Angie Cruz and Liska Jacobs, both longlisted for the 2020 Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize!
• Congratulations to Angie Cruz! Her book DOMINICANA has been longlisted for Aspen Words Literary Prize! See the announcement here.
• Congratulations to Kate Racculia! Her book TUESDAY MOONEY TALKS TO GHOSTS is a Kirkus Best Fiction of 2019 pick! See the list here.
• Congratulations to Adriana Ramirez, a winner of the Carol R. Brown 2019 Creative Achievement Award! See the announcement here.

 

October 2019

 

• Congratulations to Katherine Standefer! Her essay “The Unmaking” is a Notable selection in Best American Essays 2019.
• Congratulations to Caroline Van Hemert! THE SUN IS A COMPASS is the winner of the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Competition: Adventure Travel! See the announcement here.
• Read Natashia Deón‘s op-ed “The Hardest Part of Home Schooling Was the Guilt” for The New York Times here.
• DOMINICANA by Angie Cruz is the inaugural pick for Good Morning America’s new book club GMA Cover to Cover! Read more here.
• Congratulations to Angie Cruz! DOMINICANA has been longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. See the announcement here.

 

September 2019

 

• Read Omer Aziz‘s op-ed “The World 9/11 Took From Us” for The New York Times here.
• Read Daniel Nieh‘s op-ed “Hong Kong’s cultural independence is at risk. If it dies, the rest of us will lose, too” for The Washington Post here.
• Congratulations to Caroline Van Hemert! THE SUN IS A COMPASS is a 2019 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist: Adventure Travel!
• DOMINICANA by Angie Cruz is an Apple Books “Best Books of September 2019” pick!
• Congratulations to DOMINICANA by Angie Cruz for being named an Amazon “Best Book of September 2019” pick!
• New Deal: Jamie Harrison‘s THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING, a multigenerational saga centered on a woman whose family arrives for an annual Fourth of July celebration just as a beloved friend goes missing in the Yellowstone River, prompting an examination of how the ones we love (and the secrets we keep for them) echo throughout our lives, to Counterpoint by Senior Agent Dara Hyde.

 

August 2019

 

• Congratulations to DOMINICANA by Angie Cruz, a Book of the Month Club selection!
• BEIJING PAYBACK by Daniel Nieh is a New York Times Book Review Editors choice! See the list here.

 

July 2019

 

• Read Sonia Nazario‘s op-ed “Pay or Die,” on the corruption in Honduras, in The New York Times here.
• Congratulations to Gene Ha a recipient of the 2019 Comic-Con International Inkpot Award! Learn more about the award here.

 

June 2019

 

• Read Kimi Eisele‘s essay “When the World Matches the Apocalypse in Your Novel” for LitHub here.
• Read David Ulin‘s essay “Yoga equals Southern California, but not the way you think it does” for the Los Angeles Times here.
• Congratulations to THE SUN IS A COMPASS by Caroline Van Hemert and THE DEER CAMP by Dean Kuipers! Both have been named by Amazon as “Best Books of 2019 so far.” See the list here.
• Read Omer Aziz‘s op-ed “The Raptors Win, and Canada Learns to Swagger” for The New York Times here.
• Listen to Emily Todd VanDerWerff‘s interview on NPR’s Weekend Edition here.

 

May 2019

 

• Read Omer Aziz‘s op-ed “Liberals are Wrong to Reject Trump’s Immigration Plan” for The New York Times here.
• Read Dean Kuipers‘s piece “Jim Harrison’s Last Poems–of Love and the Earth–are the Arguments We Should be Having” for Lithub here.
• Read Daniel Nieh‘s featured interview with Publishers Weekly here.
• Omer Aziz‘s upcoming memoir BROWN BOY has been sold to Scribner UK! See the Bookseller article here.
• Congratulations to Alex Segura! BLACKOUT is a 2019 Anthony Award nominee for Best Novel. See the announcement here.
• Read Caroline Van Hemert‘s essay “Sailing in Treacherous Waters to Alaska. With Toddlers for Crew.” for the New York Times here.
• Read Omer Aziz‘s essay “Masculine Chaos” for Harper’s Magazine here.
• Read an excerpt from Dean Kuipers‘s upcoming memoir THE DEER CAMP on Outside Magazine here.
• THE LIGHTEST OBJECT IN THE UNIVERSE by Kimi Eisele is an American Booksellers Association Indies Introduce selection for Summer/Fall 2019! See more here.
• Congratulations to THE DEER CAMP by Dean Kuipers for being named an Amazon “Best Book of May 2019” pick!

 

April 2019

 

• Congratulations to Kimi Eisele! THE LIGHTEST OBJECT IN THE UNIVERSE is a Summer 2019 B&N Discover Great New Writers selection! See the picks here.
• Read Sonia Nazario‘s opinion piece “Someone is Always Trying to Kill You” for The New York Times here.

 

March 2019

 

• Read Omer Aziz‘s opinion piece “Our Brother, Our Executioner” for The New York Times here.
• Congratulations to BARELY MISSING EVERYTHING by Matt Mendez for being named an Apple Books “Best Books of March 2019” pick!
• Read Caroline Van Hemert‘s opinion piece “Birds and humans can’t resist Zugunruhe — the urge to be gone” for the LA Times here.
• Congratulations to THE SUN IS A COMPASS by Caroline Van Hemert for being named an Amazon “Best Books of March 2019” pick!
• New Deal: Omer Aziz‘s BROWN BOY: A STORY OF RACE, RELIGION, AND INHERITANCE, the story of a Canadian Pakistani Muslim who grew up in a tough suburb outside Toronto before discovering books and ending up at Yale Law school and an examination of life, belonging, and identity on the border between East and West, to Scribner by President & Agent Bonnie Nadell.

 

January 2019

 

• New Deal: Katie Orphan‘s READ ME L.A., an illustrated guidebook to all things literary L.A. past and present, featuring interviews with current Los Angeles writers, maps, day trips to follow the paths of fictional characters from Marlowe to Weetzie Bat, lists to expand your L.A. reading horizons, and a look at where writers have lived and worked in the City of Angels, to Prospect Park Books by Agent Dara Hyde.

 

December 2018

 

• Congratulations to LETHAL LIT: A TIG TORRES MYSTERY by Alex Segura and Monica Gallagher for being named one of “Five Great Podcasts From 2018” by The New York Times. See the list here.

 

November 2018

 

• Congratulations to RIP CREW by Sebastian Rotella for being named one of Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2018: Mysteries and Thrillers! See the list and read the review here.
• Shawn Harrington was featured on NBC’s The Today Show! Watch it here.

 

October 2018

 

• Read Sonia Nazario‘s opinion piece “I’m a Child of Immigrants. And I Have a Plan to Fix Immigration.” for The New York Times here.
• Read Dean Kuipers‘ piece “Three Ways to Combat Climate Change Through the Courts” for The Atlantic here.
• We’re proud to announce THE ANIMATORS by Kayla Rae Whitaker has won The Writer’s Center 2018 First Novel Prize. Learn about the prize here.

 

August 2018

 

• Read David Ulin‘s piece “Is Literature Dead?” for The Paris Review here.
• Read A.G. Lombardo‘s piece “Top 10 novels about riots” for The Guardian here.
• Congratulations to THE TENTH ISLAND by Diana Marcum which hit #15 on The Washington Post Bestseller List and #14 on Amazon Nonfiction Bestseller List.

 

July 2018

 

• We’re proud to announce ON TRAILS by Robert Moor has won the 2018 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Read the announcement and learn about the prize here and here.
• Watch Sonia Nazario on the Frontline episode: “Separated: Children at the border” here.
• Read Sonia Nazario‘s opinion piece “Do You Care About the Rule of Law? Then Act Like It” in The New York Times here.
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s opinion piece “The Senate can demand answers from Brett Kavanaugh. If he isn’t honest, he shouldn’t be confirmed” in the Los Angeles Times here.
• We’re proud to announce that THE WIDOW NASH by Jamie Harrison is a finalist in the 2018 High Plains Book Awards: Fiction. See the full list here.

 

June 2018

 

• Read Erwin Chemerinsky‘s opinion piece “The Supreme Court’s travel ban decision wasn’t just misguided, it was hypocritical” in the Los Angeles Times here.
• Read Nafees Syed‘s opinion piece” The Supreme Court Used to Oppose Discrimination. What happened?” in The New York Times here.
• Read Sonia Nazario‘s opinion piece “There’s a Better, Cheaper Way to Handle Immigration” in The New York Times here.
• Watch T.M. Wolf on CBS News discuss “Supreme Court declines to rule in 2 cases about gerrymandering” here.
• Read T.M. Wolf‘s op-ed “The Supreme Court sidestepped partisan gerrymandering. Voters need a decision before 2021” in the LA Times here.
• Read David McGlynn‘s piece “In The #MeToo Era, Raising Boys to Be Good Guys” in The New York Times here.

 

May 2018

 

• Congratulations to Jamie Harrison: THE WIDOW NASH won the 2017 Reading the West Book Award for Adult Fiction, awarded by the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association. See the announcement here.
• We’re thrilled to share that DANGEROUS ENDS (Pete Fernandez #3) by Alex Segura has been nominated for an Anthony Award for the “Bill Crider Award For Best Novel in a Series.” See the nominees here.

 

April 2018

 

• We’re proud to announce that THE WIDOW NASH by Jamie Harrison is now on the shortlist for the 2017 Reading the West Book Award, awarded by the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association. See the full list here.

 

March 2018

 

• We are excited to share that THE WENDY PROJECT by Melissa Jane Osborne and Veronica Fish has been nominated for a KidLit TV Excellence in Graphic Literature Award for “Best in Young Adult Books: Fiction.” See the announcement and the full list here.
• Read Sebastian Rotella‘s piece “A World of Cop Reporters: From Chicago to Tijuana, Snapshots of Crime Scribe Culture” for CrimeReads here.
• Read David L. Ulin‘s essay “David Ulin on the Broken Politics of Rage: Two Minutes is Long Enough for Things to Go Wrong” for Literary Hub here.
• We’re thrilled that BLACKOUT by Alex Segura has been listed as one of BookBub‘s “22 of the Best Mystery and Thriller Books Coming Spring 2018.” See the list here.
• MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME by Rebecca Solnit is included on Harper’s Bazaar‘s list of “20 Essential Feminist Books to Read for Women’s History Month.” See it here.

February 2018

 

• We’re beyond proud to announce that LIGHTNING FLOWERS by Katherine E. Standefer has been shortlisted for the Works-In-Progress J. Anthony Lukas Award. See the announcement here.
• We are excited to announce that THE WENDY PROJECT by Melissa Jane Osborne and Veronica Fish has been added to the “2018 Great Graphic Novels for Teens” list by YALSA. See the list here.

 

January 2018

 

•  We’re excited to share that BLACKOUT by Alex Segura has been chosen as one of Literary Hub‘s “Most Anticipated Crime, Mystery, and Thriller Titles of 2018.” See the list here.

 

December 2017

 

• Read The New York Times Magazine tribute to Jane Juska in “The Lives They Lived” issue from December 31, 2017. Read it here.
• We’re proud to announce that THE ANIMATORS by Kayla Rae Whitaker, L’APPART by David Lebovitz, and THE MOTHER OF ALL QUESTIONS by Rebecca Solnit have all been included on NPR‘s “Best Books for 2017.” See the list here.
• We’re excited to share that THE ANIMATORS by Kayla Rae Whitaker has been chosen as one of BookPage‘s “Best Books of 2017.” See the list here.
• We’re proud to announce that ON TRAILS by Robert Moor has won a 2017 National Outdoor Book Award. See the winners here.

 

November 2017

 

• Read Kayla Rae Whitaker‘s essay “What it’s like to live in Kentucky and sell your debut novel to Hollywood” for the Los Angeles Times here.
• We’re proud to announce that THE ANIMATORS by Kayla Rae Whitaker has been chosen as one of Kirkus Reviews‘s Best Fiction of 2017. See the full list here.
• Read Rebecca Solnit‘s piece “Let This Flood of Women’s Stories Never Cease: On Fighting Foundational Misogyny One Story at a Time” for LitHub here.
• Read Liska Jacobs‘s essay “A Tribute to Women on the Edge” for Chicago Review of Books here.

 

October 2017

 

• Read Rebecca Solnit‘s essay “Harvey Weinstein, Hillary Clinton, and Blaming Women for the Acts of Men: Or, An Incomplete List of Things That Are Not Men’s Fault” for LitHub here.
• Read David Gallaher‘s essay “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys: Reflecting on Good Boys, Bad Boys, and Cowboys” for The Good Men Project here.
• Read Rebecca Solnit‘s piece “A Fire-Devastated Northern California Takes Care Of Its Own” for The New Yorker here.

 

September 2017

 

• Watch Lauren Marks‘s interview on TODAY with Maria Shriver here.
• Read Kayla Rae Whitaker‘s essay “Hanging Out with Pennywise and My Grandmother’s Ghost” for Lit Hub here.
• We’re proud to announce that ON TRAILS by Robert Moor has been nominated in the 2017 Banff Mountain Book Competition: Mountain Literature – Non-Fiction, sponsored by the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. See the full list here.
• Adriana E. Ramirez‘s essay “What does it mean to be a poet in the face of violence? On Black Bodies, Metaphor, and Mourning” was selected as Notable in Best American Essays 2017. Read it here.
• Katherine Standefer‘s essay “Wilderness” was selected as Notable in Best American Essays 2017. Read it here.
• Read Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman’s piece “A Free-Speech To-Do List for College Administrators” for the Wall Street Journal here.
• Read Liska Jacob‘s essay “Great Things” for Talking Book here.
• Read Kayla Rae Whitaker‘s essay “My Impostor Year” for Lenny Letter here.
• New York Times Book Review column Match Book, recommends Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia. Read the article here.

 

August 2017

 

• Read Rebecca Solnit‘s essay “If I Were a Man” for The Guardian here.
• Read Rebecca Solnit‘s interview with The Guardian discussing THE MOTHER OF ALL QUESTIONS and more here.
• Congratulations to Robert Moor: ON TRAILS is a New York Times Bestseller! See the list here.
• Read The New York Times article on Rebecca Solnit “How Rebecca Solnit Became the Voice of the Resistance” here.

 

July 2017

 

• Watch Sonia Nazario on DemocracyNow! discussing the tragedy in San Antonio here.
• THE WIDOW NASH is a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. See the article here.
• Congratulations to Jamie Harrison: THE WIDOW NASH is a PNBA Indie Bound Bestseller! See the list here.
• Congratulations to Robert Moor: ON TRAILS is a National Indie Bound Bestseller! See the list here.
• The Hill Nadell Literary Agency has joined Twitter! Follow us @HillNadell

 

June 2017

 

• Read the Los Angeles Times’ review for Christine Pelisek‘s The Grim Sleeper here.
• Read Omer Aziz’s essay “I Am Not a ‘Paki,’ Not a Terrorist. I Am Nobody but Myself.” in the New York Times Sunday Review here.
• The New York Times has named Christine Pelisek‘s The Grim Sleeper as one of their favorite True Crime books for the summer. See the list here.
• Read Rebecca Solnit‘s essay “The Loneliness of Donald Trump: On the Corrosive Privilege of the Most Mocked Man in the World” for Literary Hub here.

 

March 2017

 

• Read Sonia Nazario‘s op-ed on the right way to secure the border in the Los Angeles Times here.
• Watch Christine Pelisek discuss writing The Grim Sleeper on the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books panel “Lost Stories of the West” on C-SPAN/Book TV here.
• Read Rebecca Solnit‘s essay “Protest and persist: why giving up hope is not an option” for the Guardian here and an excerpt “Silence and powerlessness go hand in hand – women’s voices must be heard” from Mother of All Questions here.

 

February 2017

 

• We are proud to announce that Rebecca Solnit has been awarded the National Magazine Award in the Columns and Commentary category here.
• Sonia Nazario will be giving a TEDx talk in Washington, D.C. on February 9th, with more information here.
• Read Kayla Rae Whitaker‘s essay on South Park and the Dark Comedy of Our Deepest Fears on LitHub and her essay on dating after her alcoholism on BuzzFeed.

 

January 2017

 

• Listen to Rebecca Solnit in conversation with Maria Popova at City Arts & Lectures, aired by KQED Public Radio on January 24 at 8pm, January 25 at 2am, and January 29 at 1pm here.
• Listen to Rebecca Solnit‘s interview with On the Media on finding hope in dark and uncertain places here.
• We are proud to announce that Robert Moor‘s On Trails: An Exploration was chosen as a winner of the 2017 Pacific Northwest Book Award here.

 

September 2016

 

• Robert Moor‘s On Trails: An Exploration was chosen as one of Amazon’s Best 20 nonfiction books of 2016 here.
• We’re proud to announce that On Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor is now on the shortlist for the 2017 Pacific Northwest Book Award, awarded by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association here.
• Ruben Castaneda‘s S Street Rising: Crack, Murder, and Redemption in D.C. was chosen as Nylon’s sole DC representative on its state-by-state list of best nonfiction books here.

 

August 2016

 

• Read Sonia Nazario on ‘How the Most Dangerous Place on Earth Got Safer‘ for the New York Times then check out her interview with NPR’s Ari Shapiro for All Things Considered.
• David L. Ulin, writing for The New Yorker’s Page-Turner blog, has posted an article on Roald Dahl’s stories for adults.  His op-ed for the LA Times on the new Petersen Automotive Museum can be found here.

 

July 2016

 

• Read Rebecca Solnit‘s new essay on living in dark times for the Guardian here
• Robert Moor on “The Dread and Bewilderment of Walking in Circles” for The New Yorker
• Patric Kuh‘s Finding the Flavors We Lost is one of the Wall Street Journal’s Books of the Month for July here
• Ann Patchett has included Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace on her list of the “75 Best Books of the Past 75 Years” here
• Robert Moor‘s On Trails: An Exploration is one of the BBC’s “Ten Books to Read in July“
• We’re proud to announce that The Only Living Boy by David Gallaher and Steve Ellis has been nominated for a 2016 Harvey Award in the Best Original Graphic Publication for Young Readers category here

 

June 2016

 

• Bernadette Murphy‘s Harley and Me: Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic Life is one of Mercury Newport News’ “12 Books Worth Reading This Summer” here
• Kayla Rae Whitaker‘s The Animators has been featured in Publishers Weekly’s Fall 2016 Adult Announcements for Literary Fiction here
• Bernadette Murphy‘s Harley and Me: Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic Life is one of The National Book Review’s 5 Hot Picks here
• Patrick Kuh‘s Finding the Flavors We Lost: From Bread to Bourbon, How Artisans Reclaimed American Food has been included on KPCC’s Take Two Summer Reading List here
• Robert Krulwich’s blog post on Robert Moor‘s On Trails: An Exploration here
• Bernadette Murphy‘s essay “Road Tripping While Female: On the Absence of Women in the Literature of American Adventure” on LitHub can be read here

 

May 2016

 

• Listen to Rebecca Solnit‘s interview with On Being here

 

April 2016

 

• David Ulin wrote an op-ed in the LA Times about the renaming of Elysian Park Avenue, available to read here
• Also in the LA Times is Tony Cohan‘s op-ed about about refugees in Denmark, found here
• Bernadette Murphy‘s article about the Everest quake appeared in Climbing and can be accessed here

 

February 2016

 

• We’re proud to announce that Sidewalking by David Ulin is now on the shortlist for the 2016 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, awarded by the PEN American Center.
• Kate Racculia was a guest on Book Talk, a radio show airing on WNHH, to discuss her novel Bellweather Rhapsody. Listen to the interview and discussion here.
• PEOPLE Magazine wrote a feature article about Christine Pelisek‘s decade-long involvement with the Grim Sleeper case. Find the article here, and pick up a copy of PEOPLE to read more.

 

January 2016

 

• The Millions has revealed the fan-chosen cover for the 20th anniversary edition of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. See the cover and read the Q&A with Michael Pietsch here.
• Rebecca Solnit is a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary for her “Easy Chair” column in Harper’s Magazine.
• Food writer and restaurant critic Patric Kuh was a contributor to the National Magazine Award-nominated Los Angeles Magazine issue “Taco City.”

 

December 2015

 

• Sidewalking by David Ulin has been nominated for the 2016 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, awarded by the PEN American Center.
• We’re also proud to announce that Gallagher Lawson‘s The Paper Man has made the L.A. Weekly Best Books of 2015 by LA Authors List.

 

October 2015

 

• Sonia Nazario’s piece, The Refugees at Our Door, was published in the New York Times Sunday review. You can also listen to her story “Inside The Crackdown to Stop Migrants, Before They Reach US Border” and read the transcript on NPR’s All Things Considered.
• We’re pleased to announce that Hill Nadell will be handling foreign rights for Z2 Comics. Read the Publishers Weekly exclusive announcement and full press release.

 

April 2015

 

• We’re pleased to announce that David Ulin has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of study of general nonfiction.
• Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit has just won the 2015 NCIBA Book of the Year award in nonfiction.
• Diana Marcum was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the drought in California. Click here to read the series in the LA Times.
• Sebastian Rotella‘s Frontline documentary American Terrorist airs this month on PBS.
• We’re also proud to announce that Joshua Davis‘ Spare Parts is a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize in the nonfiction category, as well as nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction as one of the best works by a northern California author published in 2014.
• S Street Rising by Ruben Castaneda is a finalist in the 2015 International Latino Book Awards, the largest awards in the USA celebrating achievements in Latino literature and culture.
• Erwin Chemerinsky‘s The Case Against the Supreme Court is an ABA Silver Gavel Award Finalist. The American Bar Association annually presents the Silver Gavel Awards to recognize work in media and the arts that have been exemplary in helping to foster the American public’s understanding of law and the legal system.