BOOK LAUNCHES

Here’s a quick look at some of the great fiction out this week. Happy pub day to all!   Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black “This book is dark and captivating and essential. This book is a call to arms and…

Here’s a quick look at some of the great fiction out this week. Happy pub day to all!   Camille Acker, Training School for Negro Girls “The lives of the girls and women featured in these stories are rendered with…

Here’s a quick look at some of the great books out this week. Happy pub day to all!   Elliot Ackerman, Waiting for Eden Knopf From Kirkus Reviews: “Wounded terribly in Iraq three years ago, a soldier awaits his death…

Here’s a quick look at some of the great books out this week. Happy pub day to all!   Diana Evans, Ordinary People Liveright/W.W. Norton From The Guardian: “Ordinary People is much more about the compromises made after the babies have…

Here’s a quick look at some of the great books out this week. Happy pub day to all!   John Larison, Whiskey When We’re Dry Viking From Publishers Weekly: “True Grit meets Yentl in Larison’s evocative debut. In the post-Civil War West, 17-year-old…

Here’s a quick look at some of the great books out this week. Happy pub day to all!   Crystal Hana Kim, If You Leave Me Morrow From Publishers Weekly: “A family struggles to balance tradition and change in Kim’s…

Here’s a quick look at some of the great books out this week. Happy pub day to all!   Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country Viking From Publishers Weekly: “In Gessen’s exceptional and trenchant novel, floundering 30-something professor Andrei Kaplan flees…

Here’s a quick look at some of the great books out this week. Happy pub day to all! Nick Arvin, Mad Boy Europa Editions From Kirkus Reviews: “Across the battlefields of the War of 1812, a young boy races to…

Here’s a quick look at some of the great books out this week. Happy pub day to all!   Adrienne Celt, Invitation to a Bonfire Bloomsbury Publishing  From Kirkus Reviews: “Trembling with atmosphere, Celt’s (The Daughters, 2015) second novel follows…

Here’s a quick look at some of the great books out this week. Happy pub day to all! Jamel Brinkley, A Lucky Man Graywolf Press From Kirkus Reviews: “An assured debut collection of stories about men and women, young and…