Metadata for a forthcoming Barry Diller memoir, WHO KNEW, appeared online recently, set for an April 1, 2025 publication date from Knopf. That metadata was subsequently adjusted to an untitled arts and entertainment biography/memoir — though remnants remain online and have not been updated yet. (Just search the ISBN.) The fullest description is on this listing at Coles Books in the UK, promising an “intimate, stunning, and extraordinary memoir. In what is sure to be one of the most fascinating and talked-about memoirs of the year, Barry Diller holds nothing back.” It covers “his struggles with his homosexuality; his relationship […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
Forthcoming: Cher: The Memoir, Part One
On November 19, Dey Street Books will publish Cher: The Memoir, Part One, the first memoir by the superstar. Harper Collins will also publish in the UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, France, and Brazil. According to a release, “Cher: The Memoir, Part One follows her extraordinary beginnings through childhood to meeting and marrying Sonny Bono—and reveals the highly complicated relationship that made them world-famous, but eventually drove them apart.” Part Two will be published in 2025 since, “It is a life too immense for only one book.” Dey Street acquired world rights from Alan Nevins at Renaissance Literary & Talent. VP and […]
New Books Publishing July 23
This week’s fiction releases include fantasies by Nalini Singh and Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, plus adult debuts from M. T. Anderson and Jennifer Mathieu. Mikita Brottman and Shalom Auslander publish new nonfiction. Also out this week is Nicholas Belardes’s THE DEADING, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer sampler. 20 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-july-23 6 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-july-23 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ 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 […]
New Books Publishing July 16
This week’s fiction releases include new titles by Lev Grossman and Alexander McCall Smith, while Liz McNeil and Rosemarie Terenzio and James Patterson publish new biographies. Also out this week are new titles by Hyeseung Song, Ruby Todd, and Wendy Grolnick, Benjamin Heddy and Frank C. Worrell, all of which are excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer sampler. 28 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-july-16 17 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-july-16 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our […]
Forthcoming: New Zora Neale Hurston Novel
Amistad will publish a previously unpublished Zora Neale Hurston novel, THE LIFE OF HEROD THE GREAT, on January 7, 2025, Hurston’s birthday. Scholar and literary critic Deborah Plant, who introduced Hurston’s book Barraccoon when it was published in 2018, will contextualize the novel. The new novel, which Hurston was working when she died, portrays the life of Herod the Great in first century Judea. The publisher writes, “Hurston’s Herod challenges the New Testament version of the tyrant who supposedly ordered the deaths of many children in order to save the Christ-child, as recorded in the book of Matthew, by suggesting […]
New Books Publishing July 9
This week’s fiction releases include new titles by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Emily Giffin, James Patterson and J. D. Barker, and Yasmin Zaher, while Gretchen Whitmer, Sarah Gerard, and Emily Van Duyne publish nonfiction works. Also publishing this week is This Great Hemisphere by Mateo Askaripour, which is excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer sampler. 37 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-july-9? 9 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-july-9? From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months […]