This week brings a lineup of eagerly awaited releases. Chad Harbach, known for The Art of Fielding, returns after a fifteen-year gap with a sequel to that beloved novel. Jane Schoenbrun, celebrated director of the recent film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, broadens into fiction with their debut novel. And the first authorized biography of Kim Kardashian, written by renowned celebrity journalist Jonathan Van Meter, hits shelves today. Secure copies of all these titles and continue below for the complete lineup!
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Chad Harbach, The Brightness (Little Brown)
“A monumental campus novel, full of smart and mercurial characters who feel as real as your own roommates.”
–Tom Perrotta
Jane Schoenbrun, Public Access Afterworld (Hogarth)
“The kind of epic book that doesn’t just warp reality on the page but goes on warping it when you look up—you read the novel and the world glints with secrets anew.”
–Torrey Peters
Jonathan Van Meter, Citizen Kim: The Woman Who Created the Future (Viking)
“Citizen Kim is the kind of intelligent and incisive book that arrives when a great journalist finds his ideal subject. Irresistible.”
–Anna Wintour
Haruki Murakami, trans. by Philip Gabriel, Abandoning a Cat: A Personal Story (Knopf)
“A moving reflection on the author’s father—plus a cat!—this is a beautiful short work of family history from one of our most beloved, iconic writers.”
–From the publisher
Sam Wasson, Frank Capra: A Life (Harper)
“This is a wonderful book, imaginative, suspenseful, and moving.”
–Ken Burns
Rebecca Birrell, Venus, Vanishing (Holt)
“[A] magnificent debut.”
–Publishers Weekly
Nathaniel Hawthorne, ed. by Robert S. Levine, Nathaniel Hawthorne: Parables, Fantasies, Fragments (Library of America)
“Literary heavy metal.”
–Harpers
Elena Dudum, They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful: A Palestinian Memoir (Atria)
“Elena Dudum made a puddle of me, and the memoir genre, with this tonally distinct, absolutely riveting offering.”
–Kiese Laymon
Kate Maupin, Dead Batteries (Crown)
“An affecting look at how relationships and communities endure tests in the wake of disaster.”
–Kirkus
Nick Park, Grand: The Autobiography of Gromit (Penguin Press)
“The world’s most intelligent and well-read dog, the famously mute Gromit, finally breaks his silence, presenting his memoir to Nick Park.”
–From the publisher
Anthony Roth Costanzo, Countertenor (FSG)
“An engaging and insightful portrait of the curiosity, imagination, and creative spirit that make him such a distinctive artist.”
–Philip Glass
Ha Jin, Running Away (Copper Canyon)
“Timely, urgent, and wholly authentic, Running Away gathers a chorus of migrant voices to document a desperate journey toward freedom.”
–From the publisher
Matthew Aldrich, The Natural Order (Atria)
“A book that can’t be read fast enough—an urgent, plausible, upsetting, and unexpectedly moving look at our gradual descent into dystopia.”
–Daniel Kraus
Yoon Ha Lee, Code and Codex (Saga Press)
“Three-time Hugo Award finalist Yoon Ha Lee returns to science fiction with a swashbuckling space opera about fighting against an evil empire trying to erase history.”
–From the publisher
Wendell Berry, Dispatches from Rural America: Sixteen Essays (Counterpoint)
“An urgent, timely read, and an apt final work from Berry.”
–Town and Country
Aldo Schiavone, trans. by Patrick Baker, Cleopatra: A Woman of Power (Princeton University Press)
“An able correction to some longstanding myths.”
–Kirkus
Devon Halliday, To Stay, To Stay, To Stay (McSweeney’s)
“A preternaturally wise and wickedly ambitious debut.”
–Anna Solomon
Wanda M. Corn, The Couple with the Pitchfork: American Gothic From Easel to Icon (Princeton University Press)
“Art history at its best—smart, accessible, and utterly captivating.”
–Air Mail
Gina Fiore, Advantage Player: A Memoir of Blackjack, Backrooms, and Beginnings (Gillian Flynn Books)
“Gina Fiore has led a life that seems almost too extraordinary to believe. Her journey unfolds with thrills as cinematic as any film because every improbable twist actually happened.”
–Riley Keough
Alberto Manguel, Resistance (Yale University Press)
“A passionate tribute to literature and writing as beacons of clarity and truth.”
–From the publisher
