Random House will publish restaurateur Danny Meyer‘s WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO RIGHT? on September 29. The book is “an exploration of Meyer’s quest to build and scale an enduring culture while running a business that began with one tight-knit restaurant in 1985 and evolved into a diversified hospitality group with a global footprint.” It includes the opening Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern and other restaurants, and overseeing the rise of Shake Shack. “In the twenty years since I wrote a book about the power of hospitality to transform any business or organization, I’ve had to learn – and unlearn – […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
Forthcoming: ‘Regime Change’ by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Simon & Schuster will publish REGIME CHANGE: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by NYT White House correspondents Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan on June 23. S&S writes: “Regime Change covers the first year of Trump’s second presidency—a term liberated from every constraint that defined his first. The generals who once told him ‘no’ are gone, and the lawyers who remain have learned to pick their battles. He has ignored court orders and claimed powers that Congress once checked. What remains is a President willing to take enormous risks that have toppled heads of state and taken the country to war again […]
New Books Publishing April 7
This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Ben Lerner, Caro Claire Burke, and Rachel Khong, while nonfiction includes work by Patrick Radden Keefe, Ada Limón, and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. April’s children’s releases include books by Brandon Mull, Maureen Johnson, and Sarah Beth Durst, as well as the graphic novelization of The Princess Diaries. 41 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-april-7 23 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-april-7 15 children’s titles https://bookshop.org/lists/april-2026-children-s-releases Also publishing this week are AMERICAN FANTASY by Emma Straub and THE ENDING WRITES ITSELF by Evelyn Clarke, aka Cat Clarke and V.E. Schwab, excerpted in our […]
Forthcoming: John Green’s ‘Hollywood, Ending’
On September 22, Dutton will publish John Green‘s first adult novel, HOLLYWOOD, ENDING. According to the publisher, the book follows two actors who star in an Andy Warhol biopic “on the verge of breaking out, and maybe even falling in love. Soon, the movie is blowing up, and so are their lives—in exciting, but also terrifying, ways.” It is his first work of fiction in nine years. “It’s about falling in love and living with trauma and also the thing that we’re doing right now on the social internet, where we take pieces of ourselves and exchange them for public […]
New Books Publishing March 31
This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Tana French, Yann Martel, and Colm Toibin, while nonfiction includes work by Jenny Lawson, Arthur C. Brooks, and Brandy. 27 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-march-31 14 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-march-31 Also publishing this week are novels by Linda Hamilton and Corey Ann Haydu, 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 March‘s 142 fiction releases, 61 works of nonfiction, and […]
The Edit: Featuring Hub City Press
Welcome back to The Edit, our monthly column about the galleys everyone in publishing is reading. Today we’re talking to Hub City Press, the Spartanburg, South Carolina-based nonprofit led by publisher Meg Reid. On April 7, Hub City will reissue a foil-stamped paper-over-board edition of THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU, Nancy Lemann’s “unjustly neglected” nonfiction account of the 1985 corruption trial of the Governor of Louisiana. The NYT ran an article recently about the Lemann revival–also on April 7, NYRB is reissuing Lives of the Saints and publishing Lemann’s new novel The Oyster Diaries. (92-year old Gordon Lish in the piece: […]