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.