Bustle features Emma Sulkowicz and “The Healing Touch Integral Wellness Center.”
Broadside PR signs on The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; May 30, 2017) by Mihir A. Desai. Drawn from his popular “last lecture” at Harvard, Desai restores humanity to the much-maligned industry of finance and economics by drawing on core ideas in literature, history, and philosophy.
The Whiting Foundation issues a call for applications for the 2017 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant.
The Daily Beast reviews Emma Sulkowicz’s “The Healing Touch Integral Wellness Center.”
The Cut/New York reviews “The Healing Touch Integral Wellness Center.”
The Sixth Extinction and Thinking Fast and Slow are mentioned in “Obama’s Secret to Surviving the White House Years: Books” in The New York Times.
ArtNews highlights Emma Sulkowicz’s forthcoming “The Healing Touch Integral Wellness Center.”
Cara Hoffman’s Running, Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Book of Joan, and Kristen Radtke’s Imagine Wanting Only This are included in The Millions’ “Most Anticipated: The Great 2017 Book Preview.”
Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Book of Joan is included in Elle’s “The 25 Most Anticipated Books by Women for 2017” and Huffington Post’s “2017 Book Preview.”
Kristen Radtke is one of three writers featured in the L.A. Times‘ “Faces to watch: Remember these authors and their books.”
Ways to Disappear and Here Comes the Sun make BuzzFeed’s list of “The 19 Best Literary Debuts of 2016.”
Imagine Wanting Only This receives starred reviews from Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal.
LitHub features Idra Novey, Sunil Yapa, and Molly Prentiss in “7 Debut Novelists on Their 2017 Resolutions.”
Belle Boggs’s The Art of Waiting is among BuzzFeed’s “18 Best Nonfiction Books of 2016” and Publishers Weekly’s “Best Books of 2016.”
Kristen Radtke’s Imagine Wanting Only This and Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Book of Joan are included in Nylon’s “50 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2017” and Refinery29’s 2017 literary preview.
Danielle Trussoni’s The Fortress makes Bookpage’s “Best of 2016” list.
The Washington Post features Cary Fowler and his book, Seeds on Ice.
New “Ask the Publicists” column at Lit Hub: “An Author’s Survival Kit for Dark Times.”
Geoff Dyer’s White Sands and Max Porter’s Grief Is the Thing with Feathers appear in Slate literary critic Mark O’Connell’s “10 Favorite Books of 2016.”
NPR’s Best Books of 2016 include Idra Novey’s Ways to Disappear, Adam Grant’s Originals, Nicole Dennis-Benn’s Here Comes the Sun, and Max Porter’s Grief Is the Thing with Feathers.
Here Comes the Sun and Grief Is the Thing with Feathers are included in New York Times’ “100 Notable Books of 2016.”
Here Comes the Sun is deemed a best book of 2016 by Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, Amazon, Barnes & Noble Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, Flavorwire, Vice, and Kirkus Reviews, among others.
Broadside PR signs on Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World by Mitch Prinstein (Viking; June 6, 2017). Among the things you’ll learn: social exclusion actually changes our DNA. In other words, high school politics really do matter.
The New York Times Magazine includes White Sands by our “neurotic Siddhartha” Geoff Dyer in their Holiday Gift Guide.
The Art of Waiting is one of O, The Oprah Magazine’s “10 Favorite Books of 2016.”
Elle features Emma Sulkowicz in a profile entitled, “Making protest-slash-performance art in the age of pussy grabbing.”
Cary Fowler’s Seeds on Ice is featured in the L. A. Times’ gift guide.
Kirkus Reviews selects Molly Prentiss’ Tuesday Nights in 1980 for the Best Fiction of 2016 list and Belle Boggs’s The Art of Waiting for the Best Nonfiction of 2016 list.
Molly Prentiss’ Tuesday Nights in 1980 is longlisted for the 2017 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for debut work and Belle Boggs’s The Art of Waiting is longlisted for The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
Richard Mason’s Who Killed Piet Barol? is named a best book of the year by five UK newspapers: the Guardian, the Observer, the Times of London.The Daily Mail, and the Times on Sunday.
Nicole Dennis-Benn and Max Porter are two of six finalists for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize..
Cook’s Science editors talk “The Science of Thanksgiving” on NPR’s Science Friday.
Broadside PR signs on “The Healing Touch Integral Wellness Center,” the world premiere of a participatory art piece by Emma Sulkowicz (the artist behind New York’s #1 best art show of 2014, “Carry That Weight”) presented by Philadelphia Contemporary January 13–29.
Treat your greens right: Salon talks to Cook’s Science editor Dan Souza about how be the best masseuse to your kale.
The 2016 Kirkus Prize names three winners from over 1,100 eligible books: Susan Faludi’s In the Darkroom, C. E. Morgan’s The Sport of Kings, and Jason Reynolds’s As Brave as You. Each winner receives $50,000.
Wired names Cook’s Science one of the best books of 2016.
The Whiting Foundation honors six extraordinary writers with new Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant.
Broadside PR signs on Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter (Penguin Press; March 7, 2017) , an urgent investigation into behavioral addiction, the insidious flipside of today’s unavoidable digital technologies, and how we can turn the tide to regain control.
Broadside PR signs on Who Killed Piet Barol? By Richard Mason (Knopf; January 24, 2017). This is Mason’s fifth novel and Kirkus Reviews says he “continues to earn his reputation with exquisitely crafted sentences and a dizzying knack for storytelling.”
New “Ask the Publicists” column at Lit Hub: “What Do I Do with a Bad Pre-pub Review?”
Idra Novey wins the 2016 Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize for Best Fiction for Ways to Disappear.
Cary Fowler’s Seeds On Ice is featured in Saveur, Sierra, and Business Insider.
Broadside PR signs on Running by Cara Hoffman (Simon & Schuster; February 21, 2017). The novel, based on Hoffman’s experiences working in Athens as a runner (an expat who runs trains looking for tourists to lure back to a run-down hotel in exchange for beer money and a free place to stay), received a starred review from Booklist and comes with advance praise from Paula Hawkins, Alexander Chee, and Garth Greenwell, among others.
Cary Fowler discusses Seeds on Ice on NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show.
Broadside PR signs on Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke (Pantheon; April 18, 2017), a debut graphic memoir that comes with high praise from Leslie Jamison (“utterly singular”), Eula Biss (“a remarkable bildungsroman”), Tom Hart (“riveting and glorious”), and Ellen Forney (“beautifully crafted”).
Broadside PR launches its debut monthly advice column, “Ask the Publicists,” at Lit Hub: “What about My Book?”
Broadside PR signs on The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch (Harper; April 18, 2017). Roxane Gay sings its praises: “A raucous celebration, a searing condemnation, and fiercely imaginative retelling of Joan of Arc’s transcendent life.”
Belle Boggs’s The Art of Waiting is featured among the Today show’s fall 2016 book recommendations.
Early praise for Thunder in the Mountains from Henry Louis Gates, Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University: “Sharfstein’s account not only makes for absorbing reading; it adds immeasurably to our understanding of the complicated, interwoven lives of those who fought for “progress” east and west.”
Belle Boggs is interviewed in The Atlantic and her essay on parenting appears in the New Yorker’s Page-Turner.
Excerpts from The Art of Waiting are featured in Slate and New York magazine’s The Cut.
Cary Fowler’s Seeds On Ice is featured in Discover and Scientific American.
The Art of Waiting receives a rave review in the New York Times: “Ms. Boggs has done something quite lovely and laudable with The Art of Waiting: She’s given a cold, clinical topic some much-needed warmth and soul. The miracle of life, you might even say.”
Danielle Trussoni, whose memoir The Fortress was one of Elle and Entertainment Weekly‘s best books of September, writes about Elizabeth Gilbert’s divorce announcement in Elle.
Starred Publishers Weekly review for Cook’s Science: “A solid resource as well as a foundation to build from… [Readers are] sure to learn plenty as the editors dig into each of the featured ingredients, offering insights into how slaughter affects flavor and juiciness in meats, how smoke is infused into foods, and how to pick out the best onions and orange juice.”
Nicole Dennis-Benn’s Here Comes the Sun is a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.
Belle Boggs’ The Art of Waiting is featured in BuzzFeed’s fall 2016 literary preview.
The Sixth Extinction is included in President Obama’s Summer Reading List.
“Nobody is Immune”: Donald McNeil talks the zika virus on NPR’s Fresh Air.
Broadside PR signs on Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War by Daniel Sharfstein (W. W. Norton; April 4, 2017). Lukas Prize-winning historian Sharfstein shines a light on Howard (a champion to newly-freed slaves during Reconstruction and the person after whom Howard University is named) and Joseph (the leader of the tribe Howard later pushed out of the NW to make space for white settlers) and on a clash of ideals that still defines our nation today.
The New York Times Book Review features Geoff Dyer’s “By the Book.”
Broadside PR signs on Our Short History by Lauren Grodstein (Algonquin; March 21, 2017). Kevin Wilson writes, “Grodstein has written a book with such a complicated range of emotion that I can’t quite understand how she does it. In highlighting the fragility and depth of the relationship between a parent and a child, Grodstein miraculously makes you love the complexity of this world even as it tears you apart.”
Announcing the ten 2016 Whiting Award Winners!