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This year’s shortlist incorporates a range of themes including belonging and identity; the power of nature; the burden of history; personal freedom; sisterhood; mental illness; ghosts; gender violence; and the opportunity for renewal. The novels also offer globe-spanning settings, from Antarctica to Montana, Cyprus to Trinidad. This year’s shortlist has been selected by the Chair […]
“We can feel, just behind these pages, the notebooks she filled on hot summer nights after pigs were fed and weeds were pulled. But the overall effect is of access and intimacy; Gaydos lets us into her world, and we follow her to the worthy and unforgiving place where nature and agriculture meet.” — NY […]
“A new book called “The Modern Loss Handbook” is a guide to the grieving process with “been there” advice and humor. Author Rebecca Soffer knows parental loss — in 2006 at the age of 30, she lost her mother in a car accident. Four years later, her father died of a heart attack. The collective experiences left […]
The co-founder of Whole30 and author of more than six NY Times bestselling books is back with the book so many people have been hoping she would write: the definitive book on how we can set clear boundaries to live healthier, happier lives, with scripts for countless situations. https://www.melissau.com/boundaries-book/
In his newest novel, acclaimed novelist and short story writer, Ken Kalfus imagines America after its collapse, in the wake of a civil war, when many of its citizens have become refugees attempting to settle elsewhere. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/books/review/ken-kalfus-2am-little-america.html
In his searing new memoir, award-winning writer and theologian Charles Marsh bares all about his struggles to live up to the ideals of his Evangelical faith and it’s obsession with sex and purity. In this review and discussion with writer Alex Morris in Rolling Stone magazine, they discuss the challenges and how Marsh rediscovered his […]
“…[Jiwa] gives us a lot to think about, especially now. While the issue of accidental pregnancy might have seemed an old-fashioned problem just a year ago, it’s suddenly deeply relevant again. Jiwa reminds us that no such decision can be made lightly, and whatever happens will follow the parents — but mostly the mother — […]
“Roseanne Barr’s daughter Jenny Pentland is opening up for the first time about the five traumatic years she spent in and out of various facilities for troubled teens in the ’80s and ’90s.” An Amazon Best Book of January 2022: Jenny Pentland is the daughter of Roseanne Barr, but from the book jacket you’d never know. […]
The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America’s longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan, by Washington Post reporter and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Whitlock. Just as the Pentagon Papers changed the public’s understanding of Vietnam, The Afghanistan Papers contains “fast-paced and […]
We were delighted to discover several Fletcher & Co clients included here. Among them, Ken Kalfus‘ first novel in several years, Maggie Shipstead’s first story collection and a new memoir by Courtney Maum. 🌟
From Abrams Press, THE VIOLENCE PROJECT published on September 7, 2021. Order your copy here. Using data from the writers’ groundbreaking research on mass shooters, including first-person accounts from the perpetrators themselves, THE VIOLENCE PROJECT charts new pathways to prevention and innovative ways to stop the social contagion of violence. Frustrated by reactionary policy conversations […]
From Penguin Books, WARMTH published on August 3, 2021. Order your copy here. WARMTH is a new kind of book about climate change: not what it is or how we solve it, but how it feels to imagine a future–and a family–under its weight. In a fiercely personal account written from inside the climate movement, […]