This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Matt Dinniman, Kerri Maniscalco, and James Lee Burke, while nonfiction includes work by Richard Holmes and Dorothy Roberts. 30 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-february-10 11 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-february-10 Also publishing this week are Sarah G. Pierce’s For Human Use and Michelle Maryk’s The Found Object Society, both excerpted in our Buzz Books 2026: Spring/Summer anthology. We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months on Bookshop. Check out February‘s 127 fiction releases, 21 works of nonfiction, […]
Archives for February 2026
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Obituary: Will Murphy
Editor and literary agent Will Murphy, 57, died of a heart attack at home in New York on February 1. As an editor at Random House, Murphy published Salman Rushdie, President Joe Biden, former US Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Reza Aslan, Edmund Morris, and Pope Francis. Most recently Murphy was an agent at Folio. A funeral will be held on Wednesday, February 11 at 3:00 pm at The Church of St. Ignatius Loyola (Park Avenue and 84th Street) followed by a reception from 4:00-6:00 pm. All are welcome. The service will also be live streamed at: https://www.youtube.com/live/wy6YaCgbrlE
The Tuesday Agency Shutters; Owners Launch Smaller Agency Called Goliath Jones
The Tuesday Agency, an Iowa City-based speakers agency for authors, has closed. President Trinity Ray tells PL that the agency accepted government loans during the pandemic, which helped to keep the business going and to pay staff, but changes to rules around repayment, as well as other financial factors, made it impossible for the company to continue. He says, “We were keeping up until this second Trump administration. Changes to rules around government loan repayments, the decimation of the National Endowment for the Arts and attacks on universities have made it impossible for us to continue on in the same […]
Jan Saenz’s 200 MONAS: Authors and Editors Conversation #5 from Our Buzz Books Spring/Summer 2026 Fiction Panel
Today we bring you the fifth Authors and Editors conversation from our recent fiction panel with debut author Jan Saenz and her Little, Brown editor Gabriella Mongelli for 200 MONAS, publishing March 3. #BuzzBooksOfficial
Appropriations Bills Pass With Library Funding
After dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, which was later reinstated by a federal court, President Trump signed appropriations bills this month that increase funding for libraries, American Libraries magazine reports. The legislation allocates $212.5 million—a $1.4 million increase—for “library programs run by IMLS through the Library Services and Technology Act,” according to the ALA. Though funding for the IMLS itself decreased slightly, due to the reduction in staffing there. Funding for the Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) program, which is run predominantly through school libraries, was flat at $30 million. The office that administers the program was […]