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THE HOLLOW HALF by Sarah Aziza and Christina Rivera's MY OCEANS were longlisted for the James Patterson & Bookshop.org Prize! 📚 by @authorspress

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7 months ago

JUST WATCH ME by Lior Torenberg and Jordy Rosenberg's NIGHT NIGHT FAWN were included in Electric Literature's list of "The Most Anticipated Queer Books for Spring 2026!" by @authorspress

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7 months ago

CITIZENSHIP by Daisy Hernández is one of Autostraddle's "Most Anticipated Queer Books" of February 2026!

"A book that feels deeply connected to the current political moment, Citizenship combines personal narrative, cultural writing, historical accounts, and sociopolitical analysis in its attempts to define and complicate the construction of citizenship. Hernández writes on her own Cuban and Colombian family histories in her explorations of citizenship and immigration." by @authorspress

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7 months ago

Cole Stangler has a new guest essay in The New York Times about the need for a new France!

"But France needs much deeper change: More than a new prime minister or a new president, it needs a new republic. Nearly two and a half centuries into one of the longest-running democratic experiments on the planet one that has seen the ideals of liberté, égalité and fraternité repeatedly vanquish monarchs, emperors and military strongmen - the country should go back to the drawing board. The time has come for a new form of government in France." by @authorspress

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9 months ago

Three of our titles are longlisted for 2026 PEN America literary awards!

PATHEMATA, OR THE STORY OF MY MOUTH by Maggie Nelson is longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

AWAKE IN THE FLOATING CITY by Susanna Kwan is longlisted for the 2026 PEN Open Book Award

IN OPEN CONTEMPT by Irvin Weathersby, Jr. is longlisted for the 2026 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction

This year's judges - Reyna Grande, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, Asako Serizawa, and Michael X. Wang - selected the longlist from a pool of many exceptional works. Finalists for the award will be announced in January and the winner will be announced at the 2026 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony in March. by @authorspress

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9 months ago

ALWAYS CARRY SALT by Samantha Ellis is out today from Pegasus Books!

A life-affirming memoir about resilience, language, and the healing power of our ancestors' music, stories, and recipes.

"Samantha Ellis's powerful memoir Always Carry Salt exemplifies diaspora yearning and determination.

Written with the belief that 'sleeping languages can be kissed back to life,' Always Carry Salt is a remarkable memoir about what we pass down and why." -Foreword, starred review by @authorspress

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9 months ago

STARTLEMENT by Ada Limón was just featured in The Washington Post's Book Club newsletter from Ron Charles!

"Ada Limón, who finished her tenure as U.S. poet laureate in April, will publish 'Startlement' next week. This new book, a perfect introduction to one of America's most admired poets, pieces her previous six collections and more than 20 new poems.

In one of those new poems, Limón writes, 'Once, I thought /I knew all the words / I would say the right thing / in the right way.

Such rectitude is impossible, of course. But as compensation, we get to hear Limón say the most thoughtful things in the most illuminating ways." by @authorspress

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a year ago

Ada Limón's STARTLEMENT and ONE OF US by Dan Chaon are on the Los Angeles Times' list of "30 books to read this fall!"

"Going to the mountain just to go / it's the old way / it's the only way I know, a mountain, an echo / a coming back and coming back, a chorus.' The U.S. poet laureate and native Californian's seventh collection of poetry is rooted in the land, but gives voice to the transcendent. The compendium features selections from Limón's first six books, along with an entirely new collection of her word magic. - L.B.

Tod Browning's 1932 classic film 'Freaks' delivered the circus sideshow to the masses, and Chaon's novel borrows some of that movie's mood and characters for this lively, eerie Set in 1915, the story features twins who escape the clutches of a serial killer and find a haven among a group of so-called 'circus freaks, including a woman and dog-faced boy. Chaon's writing evokes the surreality of its setting, but the novel is also an affecting story about the nature of acceptance. - M.A." by @authorspress

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a year ago

WE, THE KINDLING by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek has been shortlisted for the 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize!

In graceful yet unflinching prose, Otoniya Okot Bitek weaves vivid folk tales with taut realism, revealing flashes of life before the war that ravaged Uganda, unspooling the terrible events that led to abductions of children from supposedly safe schools, and tracing perilous journeys home again.

Facing treks across the ravaged countryside and through narrow mountain passes, gun battles and constant brutality, many girls did not survive. Those who did make it back home, some carrying small children of their own, bore the unspoken weight of their experiences within families and communities that often wished to forget and move on.

In We, the Kindling, Okot Bitek insistently refuses to turn away or to spectacularize tragedy, shaping a chorus of women's voices into a hauntingly beautiful novel, suffused with care and humanity. by @authorspress

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Ghassan Zeineddine was interviewed in The New Arab about his collection DEARBORN, chosen for their Book Club, and why the place is important!

"I wish that through my book people will understand that Arab-Americans, like everyone else, just have the same feelings, anxieties and joys." by @authorspress

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Amazon has selected the eBook of Hannah Pittard's WE ARE TOO MANY as part of its Prime Day promotion! by @authorspress

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2 years ago

IN PRAISE OF MYSTERY by Ada Limón, illustrated by Peter Sís, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly!

"Both delicately and expansively wrought, it's a work of unity that describes how, though separated by unimaginable distance, the realms are connected by water and more: 'We, too, are made of wonders, of great/ and ordinary loves,// of small invisible worlds,// of a need to call out through the dark. The poem's text and an author's note

conclude." by @authorspress

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