Amanda Gorman’s poetry collection — originally called The Hill We Climb and Other Poems — will publish as CALL US WHAT WE CARRY, on December 7. The collection will still include the poem she read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration “The Hill We Climb,” which was published as a standalone in March. Gorman says in the announcement, “I wrote Call Us What We Carry as a lyric of hope and healing. I wanted to pen a reckoning with the communal grief wrought by the pandemic. It’s been the hardest thing I’ve ever written, but I knew it had to be. […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
New Books Publishing July 27
John Oliver Killens, Ha Jin, Heather Graham, and Alix Ohlin lead this week’s fiction releases, while nonfiction includes Leanna Wen and Georgina Pazcoguin. 17 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-july-27 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_July_/219632 4 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-july-27 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_July_/219633 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make sure your key titles are on our radar, now you can use this form to submit brief details as well: publun.ch/submitNotable. Please submit your notable titles at least 3 months prior to pub date.
Forthcoming: Obama and Springsteen
Penguin Random House announced the global publication on October 26 of RENEGADES: Born in the USA by Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen, a collection of conversations that began on their Spotify podcast of the same name in 2020. PRH stated, “They share exclusive stories and ruminations about life, music, and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions.” The full-color book will also include personal photographs, Springsteen’s handwritten lyrics, and Obama’s annotated speeches. English-language editions will be published by Crown in the US and Canada, and by Viking UK in the UK/Commonwealth. The US hardcover is $50. […]
New Books Publishing July 20
Katie Kitamura, Chuck Wendig, Rachel Yoder, and Karin Slaughter lead this week’s fiction releases, while nonfiction includes I ALONE CAN FIX IT, THE CULT OF WE and more. 17 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-july-20-efeded05-b50e-4ba9-8be5-cb8f5f6064e8 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_July_/219576 7 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-july-20 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_July_/219577 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make sure your key titles are on our radar, now you can use this form to submit brief details as well: publun.ch/submitNotable. Please submit your notable titles at least 3 months prior […]
Forthcoming: PRH to Publish Prince Harry Memoir Globally
Random House will publish a memoir by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex in “late 2022,” with a simultaneous audiobook edition released by Penguin Random House Audio. Penguin Random House Canada will publish in Canada, and Transworld will publish in the UK, with additional territories to be announced. Page Six says that Harry has been writing for nearly a year with author and ghostwriter J.R. Moehringer (who wrote books with Andre Agassi and Phil Knight), who they say “is getting at least $1 million as an advance.” The column says the manuscript, initially due in August, is now expected in […]
New Books Publishing July 13
Daniel Silva, B. A. Paris, Jasmine Guillory, Matt Bell, and Joyce Maynard lead this week’s fiction releases, while nonfiction includes titles by Michael Wolff and Kristen Radtke, final reflections from John Lewis, Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang’s book on Facebook, and more. 24 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-july-13 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_July_/219578 9 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-july-13 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_July_/219552 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make sure your key titles are on our radar, now you can use this form […]