This week’s fiction releases include novels by Salman Rushdie and Jojo Moyes. Mark Pomerantz’s Trump tell-all leads nonfiction, along with releases by Priscilla Gilman and Alex Prud’homme. And Tahereh Mafi, Nic Stone, and Dhonielle Clayton all publish new YA titles this month. Also out this week is Nightbirds by Kate J. Armstrong, which is excerpted in our Buzz Books […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
Forthcoming: Streisand Memoir ‘My Name is Barbra’
Barbra Streisand’s long-awaited memoir MY NAME IS BARBRA will be published by Viking on November 7. Titled after her 1965 album and television special, the deal was first announced in 2015. Streisand, who is 80, told Jimmy Fallon in 2021 that she had already written more than 800 pages.
New Books Publishing January 31
This week’s notable releases include new novels from Jessica George, C.J. Tudor, and Annalee Newitz, as well as nonfiction by Pamela Anderson and Daniel Black. 11 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-january-31 6 nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-january-31 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three […]
Forthcoming: Jesmyn Ward’s Let Us Descend
Scribner will publish two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward’s next novel, LET US DESCEND, on October 3. In an announcement, the publisher described the book as, “the astonishing story of Annis, an enslaved teenage girl who is sold by her white father after being separated from her mother. Annis is walked from a rice plantation […]
New Books Publishing January 24
Notable releases this week include new novels from Paul Harding, Aleksandar Hemon, and Brad Taylor, as well as nonfiction by David Graeber and Lisa Guerrero. Also out this week is new work from Iliana Regan, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2022: Fall/Winter anthology, and Kate Clayborn’s Georgie, All Along, available in our Buzz Books 2022: […]
Excerpt: Steve Rubin’s “Words and Music”
Today is publication day for longtime publisher Stephen Rubin’s memoir, Words and Music: Confessions of an Optimist. As promised, the book is a deliciously candid (sometimes impolitic) account of his illustrious career, covering both his hits and his missteps, and sharing stories about some of the industry’s best-known personalities. The following excerpt, from the chapter […]