• Ian McEwan’s Atonement (Anchor) is on The New York Times list of “The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.” It entered its 44th printing this past July.

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•  Anne Applebaum’s Autocracy, Inc. is a New York Times bestseller and has sold over 50,000 copies since its publication less than two months ago. It appeared on the list for four weeks, debuting at #2. It also debuted at #2 on the Indie Bestsellers list, where it has remained on the list since publication, and debuted at #2 on the Sunday Times bestseller list in the UK. The book was a Lit Hub “Most Anticipated Book of 2024” and “Best Reviewed Book of July.” It was on The Los Angeles Times’ July reading list and is a Bookshop.org Indie Champion. Foreign rights for Autocracy, Inc. have been sold in the UK, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Israel, Hungary, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and the Ukraine. Applebaum was awarded the prestigious 2024 German Book Trade Peace Prize.

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• Deborah Taffa’s Whiskey Tender (Harper) is a National Book Award finalist in the Nonfiction category.

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• Sol Yurick’s The Warriors (Grove), which was previously adapted into a film by Paramount, is now being set to music. Lin-Manuel Miranda has been working with the playwright Eisa Davis on a concept album inspired by The Warriors, which will be released by Atlantic Records on October 18th. The album's executive producer is the rapper Nas.

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• Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot will return to Broadway in the fall of 2025. It will be directed by Jamie Lloyd and will star Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, who have previously starred in three “Bill & Ted” films together. The production will be Reeves’ Broadway debut.

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• LaToya Watkins’ Holler, Child (Tiny Reparations) won the 34th Annual Reading the West Book Award and the 2023 Writer’s League of Texas Book Award in the “Fiction” category.

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• Gary Giddins received the Jazz Masters Fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts. He will be honored on April 26, 2025, at a free concert at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

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• Charlotte Shane’s An Honest Woman (S & S) was named a “Best Memoir of 2024” by Esquire. It was featured on“Most Anticipated Books” lists in Bustle, Vulture, New York Magazine, and The Millions, and was on The New York Times list of “Nonfiction Books to Read This Summer.”

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• Casey Michel has been sanctioned by the Russian ministry of Foreign Affairs for the publication of his book Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World (St. Martin’s), as well as for his work leading the Human Rights Foundation’s Combating Kleptocracy program. Michel said, “It’s an honor and a privilege to be sanctioned by the Kremlin… I’m especially impressed that Russian officials read through my new book so quickly and realized that it revealed so many of their networks of influence and infiltration abroad -- including in the United States -- and that they decided to sanction me in response.”

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• Mavis Gallant’s Varieties of Exile (NYRB) was featured on the New York Times’ “Montreal Reading List.”

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• The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant by Mavis Gallant, Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum, Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker, and The Rest is Memory by Lily Tuck are selected as four of Lit Hub's "Most Anticipated Books of 2024".

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• Timothy Garton Ash’s Homelands: A Personal History of Europe (Yale) was awarded the 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize, a literary award for the world’s best non-fiction book in English on foreign affairs that seeks to deepen public debate on significant international issues. The book was also featured on a “New Paperbacks to Read” list in The New York Times.

 

• Nathan Masters’ Crooked: The Roaring ‘20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal (Hachette) won a 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Award in the category of “Best Fact Crime.”

 

• Marie NDiaye’s Vengeance Is Mine (Knopf) was a 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction finalist.

 

• Camillle T. Dungy’s Soil (Simon & Schuster) won the 2024 Award for Excellence in Garden and Nature Writing, presented by the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries.

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• Deborah Taffa’s Whiskey Tender (Harper) is featured on Esquire’s “Ten Best Nonfiction Book of 2024” list, as well as Esquire’s “Best Books of 2024” list. Taffa won a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature.

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• Parini Shroff’s The Bandit Queens (Ballantine) appeared on the USA Today bestseller list.

 

• Greg Jackson’s The Dimensions of a Cave (FSG) has been shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize. The prize, presented by The Society of Authors, is awarded annually for a first novel by an author over 40. The winner of the prize will be announced later this month.

 

• Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tales (Scribner) earned a place on The Atlantic’s list of “The Great American Novels” from the past one hundred years.

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• The Hollywood Reporter featured Eleanor Coppola’s Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now on a list of “The Hundred Greatest Film Books of All Time.”

 

• The New York Times Book Review’s list of “The Funniest Novels since Catch-22” included Rachel Ingalls’ Mrs. Caliban (New Directions) and Muriel Spark’s A Far Cry From Kensington (New Directions).

 

• Janelle M. Williams’ Gone Like Yesterday (Tiny Reparations) was featured on Literary Hub’s list of recommended “Paperbacks Published in February.”

 

• Amy Butcher won a 2024 Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council.

 

• Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (Harcourt) was the focus of a Literary Hub article entitled, “Why We Should All Read Hannah Arendt Now.”