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 Former longtime NYT chief book critic Michiko Kakutani publishes her first book of nonfiction, The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump (Tim Duggan Books, 7/17).
Ecco associate publisher Miriam Parker debuts her novel, The Shortest Way Home (Dutton, 7/31).
And Jules Feiffer’s The Ghost Script: A Graphic Novel (Liveright, 7/31) concludes his trilogy. |
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Each month we spotlight key small press titles, including:
- Bernardo Atxaga, Nevada Days (Graywolf Press, 7/10)
- James Brydon, The Moment Before Drowning (Akashic Books, 7/3)
- Heid E. Erdrich (editor), New Poets of Native Nations (Graywolf Press, 7/10)
- William Gay, The Lost Country (Dzanc Books, 7/10)
- Samantha Hunt, The Seas (Tin House Books, 7/10) – A reissue of the novel by the author of The Dark Dark.
- Amy Fusselman, Idiophone (Coffee House Press, 7/3)
- Victoria Patterson, The Secret Habit of Sorrow: Stories (Counterpoint, 7/17)
- Roy Scranton, We’re Doomed. Now What?: Essays on War and Climate Change (Soho Press, 7/17)
- Paul Seward, Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room (Catapult, 7/3)
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Literary Favorites and Emerging Talents
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Among titles sure to attract attention this month are:
- Megan Abbott, Give Me Your Hand (Little, Brown and Company, 7/17)
- Flynn Berry, A Double Life (Viking, 7/31)
- Maria Dahvana Headley, The Mere Wife (MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 7/17)
- Emma Healey, Whistle in the Dark (Harper, 7/24)
- Christian Kracht, The Dead (FSG, 7/17)
- Amitava Kumar, Immigrant, Montana (Knopf, 7/31)
- Simon Rich, Hits and Misses: Stories (Little, Brown and Company, 7/24)
- Donal Ryan, From A Low and Quiet Sea (Penguin Books, 7/17)
- Cherise Wolas, The Family Tabor (Flatiron Books, 7/17)
New voices making their first appearances include:
- Alexia Arthurs, How To Love a Jamaican: Stories (Ballantine Books, 7/24)
- Amy Bonnafons, The Wrong Heaven (Little, Brown and Company, 7/17)
- Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday, 7/31)
- Lexi Freiman, Inappropriation (Ecco, 7/24)
- Katherine Kilalea, OK, Mr. Field (Tim Duggan Books, 7/17)
- R.O. Kwon, The Incendiaries (Riverhead Books, 7/31)
- Zoje Stage, Baby Teeth* (St. Martin’s Press, 7/17)
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Some of the big names and talents launching new books in the second half of July:
- Linwood Barclay, A Noise Downstairs (William Morrow, 7/24)
- Michele Campbell, She Was the Quiet One (St. Martin’s Press, 7/31)
- Gail Carriger, Competence (Orbit, 7/17)– Book Three of The Custard Protocol.
- Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Voyager, 7/24)
- Katherine J. Chen, Mary B: An Untold Story of Pride and Prejudice (Random House, 7/24)
- Catherine Coulter, Paradox (Gallery Books, 7/31)
- JP Delaney, Believe Me (Ballantine Books, 7/24)
- Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects (Atria, 7/17)
- Gwen Florio, Silent Hearts (Atria Books, 7/24)
- Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman, A Measure of Darkness (Ballantine Books, 7/31)
- Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win (Simon & Schuster, 7/24)
- Lori Roy, The Disappearing (Dutton, 7/17)
- Daniel Silva, The Other Woman (Harper, 7/17)
- Rosie Walsh, Ghosted (Pamela Dorman Books, 7/24)
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Prominent and notable authors with new nonfiction releases:
- Alice Sparberg Alexiou, Devil’s Mile: The Rich, Gritty History of the Bowery (St. Martin’s Press, 7/24)
- Jean Guerrero, Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir (One World, 7/17)
- Blake J. Harris, The History of the Futurex: How a Bunch of Misfits, Makers, and Mavericks Cracked the Code of Virtual Reality (Dey Street, 7/24)
- Ibtihaj Muhammad, Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream (Hachette Books, 7/24)
- Michael Scott Moore, The Desert and the Sea (Harper Wave, 7/24)
- Parker Posey, You’re On An Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir (Blue Rider Press, 7/24) – Memoir by indie film actress.
- Dawn Raffel, The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies (Blue Rider Press, 7/31)
- J. Maarten Troost, I Was Told There’d Be Sexbots: Travels through the Future (Holt, 7/24)
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