BOOK LAUNCHES

Here’s a look at some of the May releases CRAFT can’t wait to read. Happy pub day to one and all!   Ted Chiang, Exhalation “There’s so much excellence in the labyrinth of ideas in Exhalation—machines that question free will, AIs that challenge…

Here’s a look at some of the April releases CRAFT can’t wait to read. Happy pub day to one and all!   Jennifer Acker, The Limits of the World “The Limits of the World is a riveting and nuanced study of how we…

Here’s a quick look at some of the great fiction publishing in March—so many short story collections! Happy pub day to one and all.   Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie From Booklist (starred review): “Fast moving and with a strong sense of Queenie’s…

Here’s a quick look at some of the great fiction publishing in February. Happy pub day to one and all!   Ayesha Harruna Attah, The Hundred Wells of Salaga “A powerful and moving novel that intricately explores the Salaga slave market…

Here’s a quick look at some of the great fiction out this November. Happy pub day to all! What a great month for us readers…   Laura Adamczyk, Hardly Children: Stories “In Hardly Children, characters make bad but not irredeemable choices,…

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…