NEWS
DEAL NEWS
Brad Fox’s Another Bone Swapping Event, a meditation stemming from his unexpected year-long quarantine with a family of traditional curanderos in northeastern Peru, and The Fugazi Mirror, which interrogates the legacies of redlining and segregation in his hometown of Kansas City and in Harlem where he currently lives, have been acquired by Ben Schrank at Astra House in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2025 and fall 2027 respectively (World).
February 7, 2024
DEAL NEWS
Geoffrey D. Morrison’s new novel The Coffin of Honey, a digressive, polyvocal novel with speculative, surreal, and philosophical elements, recalling Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Thomas Pynchon, and Can Xue, has been acquired by Alana Wilcox at Coach House Books (World).
February 6, 2024
MANDY-SUZANNE WONG LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE, UNITED STATES AND CANADA
Mandy-Suzanne Wong has been longlisted for the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada, for her novel The Box. Learn more here.
January 30, 2024
BRAD FOX WINS NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION AND SLOAN FOUNDATION 2024 SCIENCE + LITERATURE AWARD
The National Book Foundation (NBF) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has selected Brad Fox’s The Bathysphere Book as one of three titles for the 2024 Science + Literature program. Learn more here.
January 24, 2024
DEAL NEWS
Kate Barss’s A Hive is a Heart That Crawls, a hybrid literary memoir that blends the author’s personal story of deciding to have a child outside the conventions of the nuclear family with cultural criticism of the fertility industry and an exploration of the social dynamics of bees as a way to reimagine queer family making, has been acquired by David Ross at Penguin Canada, for publication in spring 2026 (Canada, English).
January 16, 2024
GEOFFREY D. MORRISON LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
Geoffrey D. Morrison has been longlisted for the 2024 International Dublin Literary Award for his debut novel Falling Hour. Learn more here.
January 16, 2024
NINA DUNIC LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
Nina Dunic has been longlisted for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her debut novel The Clarion. Learn more here.
September 6, 2023
PUBLICATION DAY
Nina Dunic’s debut novel The Clarion, about two siblings struggling to find their place in the world, seeking intimacy and belonging—or trying to escape it, is out today from Invisible Publishing. Learn more here.
September 5, 2023
PUBLICATION DAY
Jason Jobin’s debut book The Wild Mandrake, a literary memoir about chronic illness, coming of age, the writing life, and work, is out today from Dundurn Press. Learn more here.
August 29, 2023
PUBLICATION DAY
Babak Lakghomi’s South, a puzzle-like novel about totalitarianism, surveillance, alienation, and guilt, is out today from Dundurn Press. Learn more here.
August 15, 2023
DEAL NEWS
Anna Moschovakis’s An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth, a darkly comic, hallucinatory novel in which an unnamed narrator struggles to regain the ability to walk on a suddenly shifting, undulating ground, has been acquired by Mensah Demary at Soft Skull Press, for publication in fall 2024 (World).
July 27, 2023
PUBLICATION DAY
Brad Fox’s The Bathysphere Book, a work of creative nonfiction about deep ocean explorer William Beebe and his expeditions off the island of Nonsuch, in the Bermuda Archipelago, between 1930 and 1934, is out today from Astra House. Learn more here.
May 16, 2023
PUBLICATION DAY
Phillip Maciak’s Avidly Reads Screen Time, a work of cultural criticism and history about how we define screens, and how they now define us, is out today from New York University Press. Learn more here.
May 16, 2023
PUBLICATION DAY
Daniel Allen Cox’s I Felt the End Before it Came, a memoir-in-essays about his lifelong process of leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses, refracted through the lenses of identity, belief, belonging, and queerness, is out today from Penguin Canada. Learn more here.
May 9, 2023
PUBLICATION DAY
Curtis LeBlanc’s debut novel Sunsetter, a literary thriller set in a prairie community that has been long deserted by industry, is out today from ECW Press. Learn more here.
April 25, 2023
DEAL NEWS
Monica Datta’s debut novel Thieving Sun, about a woman mourning the tragic death of a composer who was the love of her youth, with echoes of Catherine Lacey’s Nobody Is Ever Missing and Namwali Serpell’s The Furrows, and a second novel Nebraska, a darkly comedic saga spanning generations and continents, centered on the seismic shifts within a family after the matriarch, who had been serving a prison sentence for filicide, is released, have been acquired by Ben Schrank and Signe Swanson at Astra House in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2024 and spring 2025 respectively (World).
April 4, 2023
DEAL NEWS
Simon Okotie’s The Future of the Novel, a work of literary nonfiction combining contemporary cultural analysis, literary history, and personal narrative to explore the trajectory of the modern novel, has been acquired by Tom Clayton at Melville House UK as part of its new FUTURES series, for publication in January 2025 (World).
April 4, 2023
DEAL NEWS
Ben Libman’s The Third Solitude, an interrogation of community, place, and identity as well as a quest for familial history and personal memory—part memoir, part biographical writing, part travel narrative, and part philosophical meditation on Jewishness by a Quebecker and Montrealer whose grandparents left Europe and settled in a new land, in conversation with books like In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, The Art of Leaving by Ayelet Tsabari, and When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, has been acquired by Meghan Macdonald at Dundurn Press, for publication in 2025 (World).
March 10, 2023
PUBLICATION DAY
Geoffrey D. Morrison’s debut novel Falling Hour, in which a young man who believes his brain to be broken waits for a stranger in an uncannily depopulated public park, occupying himself in the meantime with thoughts of an increasingly digressive and haunted nature, is out today from Coach House Books. Learn more here.
February 7, 2023