Emma Cline's THE GIRLS has been shortlisted for The Center For Fiction's 2016 First Novel Prize.
Read the full press release here.
Odie Lindsey's WE COME TO OUR SENSES Out Today
Odie Lindsey's debut story collection, WE COME TO OUR SENSES is out today from W. W. Norton & Co.
A raw, intense exploration of the lives of Southern veterans trying to adapt to life at home. - Juli Thanki, The Tennessean
Lindsey, a Nashville-based writer and veteran, has created a unique and contemporary voice for a generation baffled by the wars it is continuously engaged in without much understanding of their causes or consequences. - Beth Waltemath, The Knoxville News Sentin
PEN America Launches Jean Stein Book Award and Grant for Oral History
PEN and Jean Stein have created two new annual prizes. One for “a book that has broken new ground” in literature and the other to “support the completion of a literary work of nonfiction that uses oral history to illuminate an event, individual, place or movement."
Read the full story in the LA Times here
The First Installment Ezekiel Boone’s THE HATCHING Trilogy
Ezekiel Boone’s new thriller, THE HATCHING is in stores today from Emily Bestler Books.
"What Peter Benchley did for sharks, James Herbert did for rats and Michael Crichton did for dinosaurs, Ezekiel Boone does for those eight-legged freaks that lurk in dark corners of our houses. The Hatching is a full-throttle pulse-pounder that will keep you up all night feverishly flipping its pages--and make you check for webs spun under your bed before you reluctantly turn off the lights." - Nick Cutter, author ofThe Troop and The Deep
“An apocalyptic extravaganza of doom and heroism…addictive.” (Publishers Weekly)
Christopher Hebert's ANGELS OF DETROIT Out Today
Christopher Hebert's new novel, ANGELS OF DETROIT is out today from Bloomsbury. It's been receiving some great early reviews:
"Hebert’s powerful novel will produce chills. . . . Scrambling for viable options, Hebert’s current residents [of Detroit]--activists, planners, takers, opportunists, and optimists still living in a city that looks war-gutted--are undertaking to shake off the shroud of how-did-this-happen and discover renewed vigor. Hebert’s tenacious prose . . . drives the narrative and brings characters . . . to visceral life." ―Booklist
Read the excerpt on LitHub here.
Chris Forhan's MY FATHER BEFORE ME Is Out Today
Chris Forhan's new memoir is hitting shelves today, out from Scribner.
It's been receiving some brilliant reviews:
Chris Forhan’s aching, lyrical memoir excavates both a lost father and a lost era in American history….Forhan writes with grace and intelligence….By bringing in the voices of his siblings and mother, he fleshes out this portrait of a haunted and wounded man, adding heft and color to the fragments of memory….[Forhan’s] journey is beautifully and resonantly captured here. -Catherine Hollis, Bookpage
Check out Chris' piece on The Daily Beast here
Marion Duvert Joins TCA Team
We're thrilled to welcome Marion Duvert into her new role as The Clegg Agency's Director of Foreign Rights.
Marion Duvert, previously senior editor at Editions du Seuil in Paris, and before that, was associate director of foreign rights at Farrar, Straus & Giroux. In addition to her foreign rights responsibilities, Duvert will bring authors and projects to The Clegg Agency.
Marion's first day with us will be August 17--we can't wait!
Read the full announcement on Bookseller here.
Ashley Prentice Norton’s IF YOU LEFT Out From Mariner Press
We’re thrilled to see Ashley Prentice Norton’s new novel, IF YOU LEFT, in stores today from Mariner Press.
Norton (The Chocolate Money) writes Althea with a sure hand, unsentimental in her portrayal of a woman who is ruled by her illness and her codependent relationship with Oliver, yet desperately yearns for more. The lean narrative is unflinching, which only makes Althea’s story, and her eventual self-enlightenment, even more poignant." -- Publishers Weekly
Pauls Toutonghi's DOG GONE Out Today From Knopf
Pauls Toutonghi's new book, DOG GONE: A Lost Pet's Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home, is in stores today!
Check out Pauls' New York Times Modern Love piece, "On Learning Humanity From Dogs" here.
Emma Cline's THE GIRLS Hits Shelves June 14th
Emma Cline's debut novel, THE GIRLS, is out today from Random House. A rudderless girl finds herself at the flashpoint of a stumbling and dangerous counter-culture in the summer of 1969 in this stunning debut from a brilliant new voice in American fiction.
THE GIRLS has been receiving some amazing reviews and advance praise.
“The Girls is a seductive and arresting coming-of-age story hinged on Charles Manson, told in sentences at times so finely wrought they could almost be worn as jewelry…a spellbinding story. Cline gorgeously maps the topography of one loneliness-ravaged adolescent heart. She gives us the fictional truth of a girl chasing danger beyond her comprehension, in a summer of Longing and Loss.”—Dylan Landis, The New York Times
“Cline is already a talented stylist…At her frequent best, Cline sees the world exactly and generously. On every other page, it seems, there is something remarkable—an immaculate phrase, a boldly modifying adverb, a metaphor or simile that makes a sudden, electric connection between its poles….Much of this has to do with Cline’s ability to look again, like a painter, and see (or sense) things better than most of us do.” - James Wood, The New Yorker
