Katy Simpson Smith's FREE MEN is Released to Glowing Reviews

Katy Simpson Smith's stunning second novel, FREE MEN, is out today from HarperCollins. From the author of the highly acclaimed The Story of Land and Sea comes a captivating novel, set in the late eighteenth-century American South, that follows a singular group of companions—an escaped slave, a white orphan, and a Creek Indian—who are being tracked down for murder.

"a brilliant, wild ride....not only does Smith step boldly into the terrain of the classics of the American canon, her novel feels like one of those classics. Smith has succeeded in writing a novel of American masculinity that deserves comparison with Cormac McCarthy, Jim Harrison and Herman Melville. The bar is set that high and the canvas stretched that broad. Beyond the enjoyment of the characters and story, half the pleasure in reading "Free Men" is the sensation that, as the pages turn, one is witnessing the development of a powerful — even major — career.” - The Jackson Clarion-Ledger

"…glimpses into a vanished but fully realized world, one which has completely engaged us by [the] novel's satisfying end" - The Minneapolis Star Tribune

Check out this full review from Lemuria Books in Jackson, MI here.

 

Jean Stein's WEST OF EDEN In Bookstores Tuesday February 9th

Jean Stein's new book WEST OF EDEN: AN AMERICAN PLACE hits shelves today. Already rising on Amazon's Best Seller list, WEST OF EDEN has been touted as "One of the best books ever written about Hollywood" (Gaby Wood, the Telegraph) 

WEST OF EDEN is a vivid, addictive oral history of Hollywood and Los Angelese, capturing a mythic cast of characters: their triumphs and ambitions, as well as their desolation and grief. Jean Stein weaves together the personal recollections of an array of individuals to create and astonishing tapestry of a place like no other. 

"Now Stein delivers a calm Götterdämmerung that can be read as the fearsome annals of a haunted Hollywood, as well as an adroit response to John Steinbeck’s East of Eden (1952), earlier proof of California’s soft spot for fallen angels." - The New Statesman, David Thompson

 

Read the review in the LA Times here

iO Tillett Wright Cohosts MTV Suspect, Premiering February 24

iO Tillett Wright will cohost MTV SUSPECT alongside Nev Schulman. Each week, iO and Nev untangle a web of lies, from secret identities to hidden addictions, seeking the truth for those who have nowhere else to turn. Catch the premiere February 24, at 11EST/10C on MTV!

iO's memoir DARLING DAYS is forthcoming from Ecco Books in September of 2016.