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Paula McLain‘s The Paris Wife (Ballantine) has been in the top ten of the New York Times Bestseller List and the National Indie Bestseller List for 17 weeks, since its publication in paperback in November 2012 . The Paris Wife has sold over 1.2 million copies in the U.S.

Lysley Tenorio‘s short story collection Monstress (Ecco) is a finalist for the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction.

Maud Newton wrote about Christian Bar Mitzvahs for the New York Times Magazine.

Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles (Ecco) was shortlisted for the UK Independent Booksellers Award.  In addition, The American Library Association selected The Song of Achilles as one of the Stonewall Honor Books in Literature, and the Massachusetts Center for the Book and the Massachusetts Library Association have chosen it as a Massachusetts Must Read novel.

Nick Dybek, author of When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man (Riverhead), was the co-winner of the Midland Authors Society Fiction Award.  When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man is now available in paperback and audio (Dreamscape Media) formats.

Peter Bognanni, author of The House of Tomorrow (Amy Einhorn Books) has been awarded a Rome Fellowship in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.

The paperback edition of Nichole Bernier’s The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D. (Crown) was released in March.  On a related note, Nichole also wrote a piece titled “The Point of the Paperback” for The Millions.

Set to publish in April, a starred Kirkus review calls Amy Brill’s debut novel The Movement of Stars (Riverhead) “Probing yet accessible, beautifully written and richly characterized: fine work from a writer to watch.”  The novel has also earned rave pre publication reviews from Marie Claire, Vanity Fair, Booklist & Library Journal. Barnes and Noble has selected The Movement of Stars as one of their Best of the Month recommended books.

Nichole Bernier and Amy Brill contributed pieces to Redbook Magazine’s March spread “Happiness is…an awesome car.”

An author profile of Ru Freeman appeared in Publishers Weekly, providing insight into how her own childhood during the Sri Lankan Civil War influenced her new novel On Sal Mal Lane (Graywolf Press), which is set to publish this May and which Kirkus has referred to as “Lovingly written, historically rich and compassionate to all sides of the turmoil.”

Ann Napolitano, author of A Good Hard Look (Penguin Press), wrote a piece about Flannery O’Connor’s childhood home in Savannah for Writers’ Houses.

James Renner’s The Man From Primrose Lane (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux) was published in paperback this March. Film rights were recently optioned by Howie Sanders at Blossom Films / Olympus Pictures.

Birds of a Lesser Paradise (Scribner) by Megan Mayhew Bergman is now available in audio format from Recorded Books.

People Magazine calls Megan Bergman’s Birds of a Lesser Paradise (Scribner), just out in paperback,  a collection of “wise, deeply pleasurable stories centered on humanity’s enduring connection to the world’s wild things.” Birds of a Lesser Paradise was chosen by the Huffington Post as one of the Best Books of 2012, and is a StarTribune Critic’s Choice selection. The collection is also an Amazon Best Book of 2012. The Rumpus recently published an essay by Megan, “When I Loved Reagan,” about politics, writing, and motherhood. Megan also contributed an essay on green energy to the 90 Days, 90 Reasons project.

Anna Keesey‘s Little Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) was included in the StarTribune‘s year-end gift roundup; the paper says Little Century is ”an unforgettable portrait of the American West.”

Lysley Tenorio‘s collection Monstress (Ecco) was named one of the Overlooked Books of 2012 by Slate.

Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles (Ecco), was shortlisted for the Stonewall ”Writer of the Year” award. The Huffington Post ran a piece on reading and loving The Song of Achilles as a political statement; the novel was also cited by Think Progress as an example of the future of gay popular culture. The Song of Achilles is featured on Amazon’s list of Top 20 Best Books of 2012. In an interview with the New York Times,  J.K. Rowling cites The Song of Achilles as the best book she read all summer.

Joshua Ferris, author of The Unnamed (Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown) and Then We Came to the End (Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown) was selected by Flavorwire as one of New York’s 100 Most Important Living Writers. A personal essay by Josh, about his sister and the complexities of healthcare, was published at 90 Days 90 Reasons.

Nichole Bernier, author of The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D (Crown), wrote an essay for Salon on mentorship and the late film critic Judith Crist.

Luis Urrea’s Into the Beautiful North (Little, Brown) was selected for the National Endowment of the Arts Big Read program. Queen of America (Little, Brown) is now out in paperback.

Paula McLain‘s The Paris Wife (Ballantine) was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Singer P!NK recommends The Paris Wife in People Magazine, stating, “It’s about Ernest Hemingway’s first wife and it’s f—— good.” The Paris Wife is now out in paperback after almost 2 years in hardcover.

The Atlantic reviewed A Good Hard Look (Penguin Press), stating that author Ann Napolitano “employs [Flannery O’Connor’s] reputation for unflinching honesty and preoccupation with the need for salvation, in order to organize a boldly drawn story that essentially shows how love can open people to the world.”

Nick Dybek‘s When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man (Riverhead) was named a Booklist Top 10 Debut Novel of 2012.

Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang (Ecco), spoke to Bluestalking in an interview.

Ru Freeman, author of A Disobedient Girl (Atria) and the forthcoming On Sal Mal Lane (Graywolf), was the Atticus Review’s Author of the Month for September; the Atticus Review website featured a selection of interviews, articles and short stories.

The Rumpus published an essay by Friends Like Us (Knopf) author Lauren Fox, “The Friendship Contract.” Another essay by Lauren, “One True Thing,” appears in Psychology Today. Salon reissued Lauren’s short story, “Ongry,” originally published by Five Chapters.

Madeline Miller‘s The Song of Achilles (Ecco) is the winner of the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction. Read an essay by Madeline on adapting Homer, published in The Telegraph, and a feature on Madeline’s cultural life in The Independent. The Song of Achilles is one of the “Best Books of the Year So Far” on Amazon.com. The paperback edition will be released in the U.S. on August 28th.

Anna Keesey‘s debut novel Little Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is “rendered vividly through fluid and restrained prose, solid plotting and a keen eye for detail,” writes The New York Times. The Rumpus says, “the characters, sprung from another time, living in a place as removed as another planet, come to life on the page, and all their flaws feel as consistent and true as the flaws of our dearest loved ones in this work of near perfection.” Read a profile of Anna in The Oregonian, and Anna’s own advice to writers at The Huffington Post.

The New York Times says Nick Dybek “brings talent to bear” in his debut novel, When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man (Riverhead).  The Los Angeles Times calls Nick Dybek “a clean and stripped-down stylist, striking a delicate balance between ambiguity and life-changing clarity.” When Captain Flint Was Still A Good Man is among the AV Club’s “Best of 2012 So Far.”

Alicia Oltuski‘s Precious Objects (Scribner) is now out in paperback. Read an essay by Alicia, “Awkward: On Language and Mortification,” at the Powell’s blog.

Zoe Ferraris‘s Kingdom of Strangers (Little, Brown) is “suspenseful” and “an insightful look at Saudi social politics,” says O: The Oprah Magazine. The Guardian writes, “this is superlative crime fiction mixed with unforced cultural analysis that bursts right out of genre constrictions,” and The Daily News says, “Ferraris, who previously lived in Saudi Arabia, expertly mines her locale for tantalizing details.”

Ann Napolitano‘s A Good Hard Look: A Novel of Flannery O’Connor (Penguin Press) is now out in paperback. A Good Hard Look is an IndieBound Next Great Read and a Shelf Awareness Indie Favorite.

Megan Bergman‘s Birds of a Lesser Paradise (Scribner) is one of The Huffington Post’s Best Summer Books of 2012. Read a short story by Megan, “The Autobiography of Allegra Byron,” over at Slate.com.

Anna North‘s America Pacifica (Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown) is now out in paperback. Read an essay by Anna about writing about a dystopic future at BuzzFeed.

The Washington Post writes of Nichole Bernier‘s The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D (Crown), “bittersweet… Bernier’s excellent storytelling skills will keep you pondering long after the final page.” Read a profile of Nichole in The Boston Globe, and Nichole’s advice to writers at The Huffington Post.

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Ecco) has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize. The novel is an instant New York Times Bestseller, and an NPR Bestseller. Time Magazine says The Song of Achilles is “a wildly romantic retelling of the Trojan War,” and The Washington Post says, “in prose as clean and spare as the driving poetry of Homer, Miller captures the intensity and devotion of adolescent friendship.” USA Today says, “A new song is born, and with it, an author we’ll want to hear sing again, and soon,” and The Independent writes, “Miller has combined scholarship with imagination to turn the most familiar war epic into a fresh, emotionally riveting and sexy page-turner.” Read an interview with Madeline in the New York Times‘s T Magazine here.

The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D. (Crown) by Nichole Bernier was selected by BookPage as one of the “Most Buzzed About Debuts of 2012.” Booklist says ”Bernier’s tale blends bittersweet heartaches with soaring truths.” The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D. will be published in June 2012.

The Boston Globe says Nick Dybek‘s When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man (Riverhead) is “an exploration of loyalty and moral choice within a crumbling family.” The AV Club calls the novel “a hypnotic, relentless debut that explores every man’s capability to become evil,” and Nick Dybek “a thrilling talent to watch.” The Economist says When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man has “the momentum of a thrilling yarn, delivered as if by a scarred man by the consoling light of a fire.”

Anna Keesey‘s Little Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is a “briskly romantic, nontraditional Western,” says O Magazine, and “Keesey portrays her men and women as deeply flawed but so achingly vulnerable that it is impossible not to identify with them.” Publisher’s Weekly says “While Keesey offers a variety of characters with intriguing stories of their own, it is the richly depicted setting — from desert to dry goods store — that showcases her talent.” A starred review in Library Journal calls Little Century ”a top-notch novel of Western Americana.”

The Advocate says of Lysley Tenorio‘s Monstress (Ecco), “These stories are so well-written and immediate, they hardly seem like fiction but rather the troubled narrative of someone’s own life — someone faced with an impossible, life-changing choice.” The AV Club writes, “Monstress is the best kind of ethnic literature, one that introduces a unique voice from an underrepresented slice of the American experience.” Read Lysley Tenorio’s recommendations for what to read next, on the Barnes & Noble Review, here.

The Washington Post calls Lauren Fox‘s Friends Like Us (Knopf) a “poignant comedy about relationships,” saying, “[Fox is] in love with language and can squeeze laughs out of the worst situations while depicting nuanced, complicated characters.” Read Lauren Fox’s short story “Ongry,” published by Five Chapters, here.

Kevin Wilson‘s The Family Fang (Ecco), now in paperback, is back on the New York Times Bestseller List and the Indie Bestseller List. The novel was also selected by readers of The Believer as a favorite book in 2011. Read an essay by Kevin Wilson, “The Law is Skinny With Hunger for Us”,  here.

The New York Times Book Review says Megan Mayhew Bergman‘s Birds of a Lesser Paradise (Scribner) ”provides alluring glimpses into the strangeness, the ruthlessness, of the animal kingdom.” Paste Magazine says “[Bergman's] writing shines when linking nature and not just womanhood, but femininity… Bergman excels at a mundane kind of gothic that is both familiar and frightening.” The Boston Globe calls Megan Bergman “a top-notch emerging writer.” Read an interview with Megan Bergman on the Wall Street Journal Speakeasy blog here.

James Renner‘s The Man From Primrose Lane (Farrer, Straus & Giroux) is “ambitious and innovative,” says The Washington Post. 

A starred review in Booklist calls Zoe Ferraris‘s Kingdom of Strangers (Little, Brown) a “fascinating mystery that provides insight into the lives of women in Saudi Arabia and exposes the plight of migrant workers there…. The combination of an exotic locale with a closed culture and first-rate psychological suspense makes this a compelling page-turner.” A starred review in Publisher’s Weekly says, “With intelligence, patience, and meticulous detail, Ferraris evokes a complex culture profoundly ambivalent about female power.”

The 2012 edition of the Pushcart Prize Anthology is now available, featuring stories by Celeste Ng and Bret Anthony Johnston.

Madeline Miller‘s The Song of Achilles (Ecco) is one of Amazon.com’s Best Books of the Month for March, and the novel is featured as an Indie Next Pick. Newsday and USA Today both named The Song of Achilles a book to watch in 2012, and O Magazine calls the novel “spellbinding.” The Song of Achilles is also a Costco Buyer’s Pick in Canada. Read a profile of Madeline Miller, along with an interview, in the Wall Street Journal.

Birds of a Lesser Paradise (Scribner) by Megan Mayhew Bergman is featured as one of Amazon.com’s Best Books of the Month for March, and the collection is also a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick. Birds of a Lesser Paradise has also been selected as an Indie Next Pick.

Will Allison‘s Long Drive Home (Free Press) is now available in paperback; The Daily Beast calls it “a book that once you pick up you won’t put down.”

Entertainment Weekly says Lauren Fox‘s Friends Like Us (Knopf) is “a funny, astute examination of the fragility of friendship.” People calls the book ”a strikingly wise exploration of the bonds people forge and break,” adding, “Fox delivers on plot, but it’s her insight, emotion, and eye for universal truths that make Friends Like Us memorable.” In a review on Amazon.com, Eleanor Brown, author of The Weird Sisters, says “Lauren Fox is a smart, clever writer, with a heartbreakingly keen insight into human nature.”

James Renner‘s The Man From Primrose Lane (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is one of Publishers Weekly‘s Top 10 Mysteries & Thrillers for Spring 2012. A starred review of The Man From Primrose Lane in Publisher’s Weekly says, “punctuated by moments of desperate tenderness, this unusually demanding and grim tale provokes troubling reflections on guilt and innocence, good and evil, revenge and redemption.” Read an interview with James Renner in Cleveland Magazine, and an excerpt of The Man From Primrose Lane over at io9.

Monstress (Ecco) a collection of short stories by Lysley Tenorio, is a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick. Tenorio’s debut was also chosen as Slate.com’s Book of the Week, and the Los Angeles Times says “Tenorio has a talent for wringing universal sentiments from fine-bore, culture-specific scenes.”

Nichole Bernier‘s The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D. (Crown) is one of BookPage’s Most Anticipated Books for 2012.

Kirkus calls Nick Dybek‘s When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man (Riverhead) ”literary fiction as morality play,” and says Nick Dybek is an “observant, appealing writer.” Read an interview with Nick Dybek, as well as a review of When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man at Granta.

Luis Urrea‘s Queen of America (Little, Brown) was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Vanity Fair says Urrea ”magically spins a vibrant, larger-than-life fiction based on the ‘Saint of Cabora,’” and the Wall Street Journal calls Queen of America ”colorful and exuberant.”

The Family Fang (Ecco) by Kevin Wilson is a selection for the TV Book Club in the UK. In a review for The Believer, Nick Hornby writes that The Family Fang is “ambitious, it’s funny, it takes its characters seriously, and it has soul—here defined as that beautiful ache fiction can bring on when it wants the best for us all while simultaneously accepting that most of the time, even good enough isn’t possible.”

Celeste Ng‘s “Girls at Play” is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. The story, originally published in the Bellevue Literary Review, now also appears in the anthology The Pushcart Prize XXXVI: The Best of the Small Presses.

Paula McLain‘s The Paris Wife is a Richard & Judy Pick for Spring 2012. The Paris Wife has been on the New York Times Bestseller List for one year.

The Family Fang (Ecco) by Kevin Wilson is a Barnes and Noble Discover pick for Fall 2011. The Family Fang was also chosen as one of Time Magazine’s Top 10 of 2011  and as a Barnes and Noble Best of 2011. The novel is also one of Amazon.com’s Top 100 books of 2011. Bookpage and Booklist also selected the novel as one of the year’s best. Nick Hornby selected The Family Fang as one of his favorite books from 2011 in the Guardian, and Ann Patchett selected the novel as one of her top reads for both Salon.com and Southern Living. Screen rights to the novel have been optioned by Olympus Films and Blossom Films; the project will be developed as a starring vehicle for Nicole Kidman.

Ann Napolitano‘s A Good Hard Look (Penguin Press) was selected by NPR as a Booksellers’ Pick of 2011.

Bret Anthony Johnston’s “Soldier of Fortune” is included in The Best American Short Stories 2011 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). “Soldier of Fortune” was first published in Glimmer Train. Bret’s essay “Danny Way and the Gift of Fear”, originally published in Men’s Journal, is included in The Best American Sports Writing 2011 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).

Megan Mayhew Bergman‘s “Housewifely Arts” is also included in The Best American Short Stories 2011 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). “Housewifely Arts” was first published by One Story, and is part of Megan’s collection Birds of a Lesser Paradise, forthcoming from Scribner in 2012. Publishers Weekly calls Birds of a Lesser Paradise a “stellar debut.”

Publishers Weekly says Lauren Fox‘s Friends Like Us (Knopf) is “funny and bittersweet… a thoughtful, delicate book.” Booklist writes, “the hard emotional truths go down easily amind the smart, rapid-fire wit. A pure if heartbreaking pleasure.” Kirkus also says Friends Like Us is “moving… artfully written.”

Madeline Miller‘s debut novel, The Song of Achilles (Bloomsbury UK) was selected by Amazon as one of the top 50 books of 2011 in the UK. In the US, The Song of Achilles (Ecco) also received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, which says the novel “masterfully brings to life an imaginative yet informed vision of ancient Greece.” The novelist Donna Tartt picked The Song of Achilles as her Book of the Year in the Times (UK), calling it “captivating… a hard book to put down.” Read an essay by Madeline Miller, written for the Guardian on her top 10 classical books, here.

Paula McLain‘s The Paris Wife (Ballantine) won the 2011 Goodreads Reader’s Choice Award in the Historical Fiction category. The novel was also selected as one of Barnes & Noble’s Best of 2011, and as one of Amazon.com’s Best Books of 2011. Read a Goodreads interview with Paula here. Film rights to The Paris Wife have been optioned by Amber Entertainment.

Helen Simonson‘s Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand is a BBC Radio Book At Bedtime pick for December. Listen to the program here.

Will Allison, author of What You Have Left and the New York Times bestseller Long Drive Home, has joined One Story magazine as a Contributing Editor.

The paperback edition of Kathleen Kent‘s The Traitor’s Wife (Reagan Arthur Books / Little, Brown) debuted on the New York Times bestseller list. The book was originally published as The Wolves of Andover.

Anna North‘s America Pacifica (Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown) was selected as one of the Chicago Tribune’s Best Books of 2011.

The Family Fang (Ecco) by Kevin Wilson is an instant bestseller, debuting on the New York Times Bestseller list and on the Nationwide Independent Bestseller list. The Family Fang was selected as an Amazon.com Best Book of the Month and an Indie Next Pick for August. Read an excerpt from the novel online at The Collagist and a profile of Kevin in the New York Times.

Will Allison‘s Long Drive Home (Free Press) is an instant bestseller, debuting on the New York Times Bestseller list. People Magazine calls Long Drive Home “A gripping morality tale that raises questions about race, conscience and the responsibilities of parenthood.”

Alicia Oltuski‘s Precious Objects (Scribner) is a Barnes and Noble Discover pick for Fall 2011. Read Alicia’s essay “Diamond Girl” in W Magazine, and a profile of Alicia in the Wall Street Journal.

Gina Ochsner‘s “Song of the Selkie” is included in the anthology Fantastic Women (Tin House Books).

The Paris Wife (Ballantine) by Paula McLain is a Real Simple August Book Club Pick, and has been on the New York Times Bestseller list for twenty weeks. The Paris Wife also won the Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

Ann Napolitano‘s A Good Hard Look (Penguin) is an Indie Bestseller. The Washington Post says that A Good Hard Look is “An absorbing, old-fashioned tale about how, as in Flannery O’Connor’s stories, ‘Grace changes a person…. And change is painful.’”

Helen Simonson‘s Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand (Random House) received the 2011 Waverton Good Read Award in the United Kingdom. The paperback edition has been on the New York Times Bestseller list for 36 weeks.

Zoë Ferraris‘s Finding Nouf (Little, Brown) was selected for One City One Book 2011 in La Canada Flintridge, California.

Read Anna North‘s “The Pilot” at Five Chapters. Anna is the author of America Pacifica (Little, Brown), which The Rumpus calls “an adventure story with a literary personality.” Read an interview with Anna on the Huffington Post.

Peter Bognanni‘s debut novel The House of Tomorrow (Putnam/Amy Einhorn Books) received the 2010 LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.

Advance praise for Kevin Wilson‘s forthcoming debut novel The Family Fang (Ecco, August 2011) includes starred reviews in both Publisher’s Weekly and Kirkus. Kirkus says, “The subtlety of the comedy is flawless, channeling the filmmaking of Wes Anderson or Rian Johnson.” Read an interview with Kevin in the May 2 edition of Publisher’s Weekly.

Read “My Editor, My Wife” by Will Allison on Slate.com . Will’s second novel, Long Drive Home, will be published by Free Press in May 2011. Publisher’s Weekly praised Long Drive Home, stating “Allison’s effortless prose and playful genre mixing showcase a burgeoning talent.” Free Press reissued the paperback edition of Will Allison’s What You Have Left this spring.

Paula McLain‘s The Paris Wife (Ballantine) is an instant bestseller, debuting at #1 on the American Booksellers Association bestseller list, and at #9 on the New York Times bestseller list. In anticipation of Mother’s Day, O Magazine listed The Paris Wife as one of the top “Books Mom Will Love.”

Read Luis Alberto Urrea‘s short story “Chametla” in the Spring 2011 issue of Tin House.

Helen Simonson‘s Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand (Random House) received an Honorable Mention from the 2011 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.

Zoe Ferraris‘s City of Veils (Little, Brown) was nominated for a NCIBA Award in the Fiction category.

In April, Michael Crummey’s Galore (Other Press) was selected as one of Amazon.com’s Best Books of the Month. The novel has also been shortlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

An article by Alicia Oltuski, “In Search of the Modern Engagement Ring,” was published by The Faster Times in March. Alicia’s debut, Precious Objects: A Story of Diamonds, Family, and a Way of Life, will be published by Scribner this July.

Dyan deNapoli’s The Great Penguin Rescue and Kathleen Kent’s The Wolves of Andover were both named “Must-Read” books by the annual Massachusetts Book Awards Committee. Dyan’s The Great Penguin Rescue also received a Nautilus Book Award, winning a Silver award in the Animals and Nature category.

Read “The Autobiography of Allegra Byron” by Megan Mayhew Bergman on the Five Chapters website. Megan’s debut collection Birds of a Lesser Paradise will be published by Scribner in 2012.

A new short story by Gina Oschner,”Break,” appears in the Glimmer Train Spring 2011 issue.

Read an excerpt of Paula McLain‘s forthcoming novel The Paris Wife in this month’s issue of Good Houskeeping. Publisher’s Weekly says Mclain “offers a vivid addition to the complex-woman-behind-the-legendary-man genre, bringing Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley Richardson, to life.”

The Winter 2011 issue of Glimmer Train features an interview with Bret Anthony Johnston as well as his latest short story, “Soldier of Fortune.”

Randi Davenport’s memoir The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes was selected by the Great Lakes Colleges Association for their New Writer’s Award.

Helen Simonson’s Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand (Random House) was featured as one of the Top Ten Novels of the Year by Janet Maslin at the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Post and Amazon.com. In December, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand debuted at #10 on the New York Times Paperback Bestseller list, #2 on the Heartland Indie bestseller list and #15 on the Publishers Weekly paperback bestseller list. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand is a Pennie’s Pick at Costco and in England the Richard and Judy Book Club selected it for their Spring list.

The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris was among The New Yorker‘s “Reviewers Favorites of 2010,” and the Economist and Time Out New York named the novel one of the best books of 2010. Joshua Ferris’s story “The Pilot” is included in the anthology 20 Under 40: Stories from the New Yorker (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), edited by Deborah Treisman.

Library Journal picked Peter Bognanni‘s House of Tomorrow, Zoe Ferraris’s City of Veils and Kathleen Kent’s The Wolves of Andover as three of the Best Adult Books for Teens in 2010 .

The Great Penguin Rescue by Dyan deNapoli was listed as one of Library Journal’s Best Sci-Tech Books of 2010. A profile of Dyan was also featured in the Boston Globe.

Peter Bognanni’s House of Tomorrow received an Alex Award from the American Library Association.

Randi Davenport‘s memoir The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes is a finalist for the 15th Annual Books for a Better Life Award.

Joshua Ferris‘s story “The Valetudinarian” is appearing in the 2010 edition of Best American Short Stories, edited by Richard Russo. The story was originally published in August 2009 in the The New Yorker.

The Wolves of Andover by Kathleen Kent has been named a November 2010 Indie Next Pick, and is due to be published November 8th by Reagan Arthur Books/ Little, Brown & Co.

Stories by Kevin Wilson, Bret Anthony Johnston, and Megan Mayhew Bergman were selected for the 2010 edition of New Stories From the South, edited by Amy Hempel. The collection is in stores now from Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.

Peter Bognanni has been awarded the 2010 Emerging Author Award at this year’s Iowa Author Awards. Past winners include Marilynne Robinson and Jane Smiley.

Ru Freeman‘s novel A Disobedient Girl has been included on the long list for the DSC prize for South Asian Literature.

Lauren Grodstein’s novel A Friend of the Family, Helen Simonson’s novel Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, and Joshua Ferris’ novel The Unnamed are all being released in paperback this Fall.