Winter 2010
Joshua Ferris's The Unnamed is the #1 Indie Next Pick for January and has been chosen as one of Amazon.com's Best Books of the Month. Read which books Joshua couldn't live without and hear him read a selection from Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 on the New York Times Room for Debate Blog. You can also listen to Leonard Lopate interview Josh on WNYC. An excerpt from The Unnamed appears in the latest issue of Granta.
Helen Simonson's forthcoming novel Major Pettigrew's Last Stand was Publisher's Weekly's Pick of the Week in their January 4th issue.
Lauren Grodstein's A Friend of the Family was named one of the best books of 2009 by January Magazine, and was chosen as an Editor's Choice in the January 1st edition of The New York Times Book Review.
Peter Bognanni has a playlist on The New York Times Book Review bolog Paper Cuts. Peter's debut novel The House of Tomorrow is forthcoming from Amy Einhorn/Putnam in March.
Kevin Wilson's debut collection Tunneling to the Center of the Earth has received a 2010 Alex Award, given by the American Library Association to books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults.
Fall 2009
Lauren Grostein is profiled in the September 21st issue of Publisher's Weekly. Her forthcoming novel, A Friend of the Family is a November Indie Next Pick, and was selected as one of Sara Nelson's 15 Hottest Books of Fall on The Daily Beast. A Friend of the Family has also been selected as one of Amazon.com's Best Books of the Month for November 2009.
Joshua Ferris is appearing at the 2009 New Yorker Festival on Friday, October 16th, along with Alexander Hemon. He will be reading from his forthcoming novel The Unnamed, which is to be published in January 2010 by Reagan Arthur Books. You can read an interview with Joshua in the November 16th issue of Publisher's Weekly.
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent has been released in paperback by Little,Brown/Back Bay Books in the US and Pan Macmillan in the UK, debuting at #19 on the Sunday Times bestseller list in the UK. The Heretic's Daughter is also featured in the October issue of Costco Connection Magazine, and is listed as a Buyer's Pick by Costco book buyer Pennie Clark Ianniciello. Also, you can read "My Mother, The Showgirl," a new essay by Kathleen on More.com.
Kevin Wilson's story collection Tunneling to the Center of the Earth received Honorable Mention as one of Publisher's Weekly's Best Books of 2009.
Spring/Summer 2009
Gina Ochsner is profiled in the June 29th issue of Publisher's Weekly featuring ten promising fiction debuts.
Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris has won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and was recently released in paperback by Mariner Books. The Sunday Times (UK) also picked it as one of their 100 best holiday reads. Finding Nouf is also a finalist for the Macavity Award for Best First Mystery by Mystery Readers International.
Read Bret Anthony Johnston's essay about Farrah Fawcett on National Public Radio.
"A Night Out", a new short story by Joshua Ferris, was published in the 10th Anniversary issue of Tin House. Also, "The Valetudinarian" was published in the July 27th issue of The New Yorker.
Ru Freeman is profiled as one of six debut novelists in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. Her novel A Disobedient Girl, which is coming out from Atria/Simon & Schuster in July, was hailed as "An earnest, worthy, well-crafted debut" by Kirkus. Publisher's Weekly has said "Freeman illustrates contemporary Sri Lankan life through the battles waged between lovers, friends and strangers alike in this study in dignity, strength of character, tolerance, and perseverance."
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent is a Boston Globe bestseller.
Winter 2009
Read an interview with Julie Barer and three other literary agents in the January/February 2009 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Joshua Ferris is a finalist for a National Magazine Award for his story "The Dinner Party", which appeard in the August 11th & 18th issue of The New Yorker.
Gina Ochsner's debut novel The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight has been longlisted for The 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction. Recently published in the UK by Portobello Books, The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight will be published in the US in January 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Read "Battling Lightning" by Randi Davenport in the February 22nd issue of The Washington Post Magazine. Randi's memoir is forthcoming from Algonquin Books in 2010.
Read "No Joke This Is Going to Be Painful" by Kevin Wilson in the current issue of Tin House and Kevin's New York Times Magazine "Lives" piece in the February 22nd issue of the magazine. Kevin also has a short story in the current issue of The Southeast Review.
Lauren Fox's essay "My Friend's Divorce Almost Ruined My Marriage" appears in the February issue of Marie Claire.
Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and a winner of the Alex Award, given by the American Library Association.
Read an interview with Will Allison in the Spring issue of Glimmertrain.
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent has won the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize for American Historical Fiction.
Fall 2008
"On Principle" by Gina Ochsner has been selected by Narrative Magazine as a winner of their first person short story contest. Gina's debut novel The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the U.S and Portobello Books in the UK in 2009.
Listen to Kevin Wilson read from his short story "You Amaze Me, You Do" at the New York Public Library as part of CLMP's Periodically Speaking series (available on iTunes). Publisher's Weekly says "Kevin Wilson's captivating debut collection paints an everyday world filled with characters obsessed by weird impulses...Wilson creates a lively landscape with rich and twisted storytelling..." Tunneling to the Center of the Earth will be published by Ecco/HarperPerennial in April 2009.
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent (Little, Brown) is an Indie Next Book selection. Published on September 3rd the book has been reprinted five times and become an instant bestseller.
Kelly Braffet and Lauren Grodstein are both contributors to Who Can Save Us Now? Brand New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories edited by Owen King and John McNally, published by Free Press in August.
Read "The Dinner Party" by Joshua Ferris in the August 11th issue of The New Yorker and his essay on Florida, part of State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey. An excerpt from Then We Came to the End was featured as part of the Selected Shorts series at Symphony Space.
Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris was picked as a Crime Fiction Favorite of 2008 by the Los Angeles Times. A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller, it was selected for the BBC Radio's Book at Bedtime series.
Read "The Close-Nit Family" by Paula McLain in the Washington Post Magazine.
Spring/Summer 2008
Joshua Ferris has won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for his novel Then We Came to the End. He was also a finalist for the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers. Read Josh's short story "More Afraid of You" in the latest issue of Granta.
Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris has been chosen as a Book Sense Pick for June and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection.
Will Allison's debut novel What You Have Left, which was named one of 2007's notable books by the San Francisco Chronicle, will be released in paperback by Simon and Schuster's Free Press in June.
Read Paula McLain's "Life Lessons" essay in the June issue of Real Simple.
Winter 2008
Read Paula McLain's Modern Love essay "The Holiday of My Dreams That Was Just That" in The New York Times. Paula's debut novel A Ticket to Ride will be published by Ecco/HarperCollins in January.
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris was picked as one of the Ten Best Books of 2007 by The New York Times, Time Magazine, Salon, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, and The Christian Science Monitor. It was selected by Richard and Judy for their 2008 Book Club. Read a short story by Joshua Ferris in the latest issue of Tin House.
The Time it Takes to Fall, Margaret Lazarus Dean's debut novel about the Challenger disaster, will be released in paperback from Simon and Schuster in February. Margaret was recently awarded a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts.
The Romantic Times 2007 Reviewers' Choice Award Nominees are out, and Frenemies by Megan Crane is nominated in the Best Mainstream & Chick Lit Fiction category.
"At-Talifoon" an essay by Zoë Ferraris about her time living in Saudi Arabia, will be published by the literary magazine A Public Space in their February issue. Waterstone's Booksellers has picked Zoë as one of their twelve "New Voices" for 2008.
Read Lauren Fox's dispatches from Wisconsin in The New York Times Op-Ed series "Battlegrounds" about the 2008 elections. Lauren is the author of the novel Still Life With Husband which Knopf published last year.
Fall 2007
Joshua Ferris is a finalist for the National Book Award for his debut novel Then We Came to the End.
Will Allison's debut novel What You Have Left has been selected as a Fall 2007 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick.
Last Seen Leaving by Kelly Braffet, which Entertainment Weekly called a "compelling tale of mother-daughter estrangement" is out in paperback from Mariner/Houghton Mifflin.
Gina Ochsner's story "Song of the Selkie" is included in the new anthology Best American Fantasy.
Finding Nouf, a literary mystery set in Saudi Arabia by Zoe Ferraris has just been published in Germany and the Netherlands. Houghton Mifflin will publish Finding Nouf in the US in June 2008, and Little, Brown UK will publish under the title The Night of the Mi'Raj in April 2008.