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Celebrating 100 years of publishing great books. Here are some posts about them.
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Elizabeth Preston
23 days ago
Are these the animal kingdom's worst moms? Or doing their best, like all of us? By me for Nat Geo:
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
For more animal parents who are inspiring, upsetting, and everything in between, check out my book!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741329...
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These animal mothers expect other species to raise their young
Some birds and other animals are 'brood parasites' whose mothers leave their offspring with other species.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/brood-parasites-mothers-day
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Elizabeth Preston
21 days ago
"Humans, Preston reminds us, have a tremendous capacity to care. If we are a little more like animals than we care to admit, right now would be a good time to double down on co-operating." Thank you
@thetimes.com
for this kind and extremely thoughtful book review!
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
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Are humans the best parents? Tips from the animal kingdom
In The Creatures’ Guide to Caring, Elizabeth Preston explores many different parenting styles, from hands-on monkey dads to matriarchal hyenas
https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/creatures-guide-caring-animal-parents-teach-humans-born-care-elizabeth-preston-review-6376wlkdm
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Elizabeth Preston
20 days ago
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Leander **BUY THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens
19 days ago
The second excerpt is now up at
@defector.com
. It's from a chapter on Bora Milutinovic, the mad scientist USMNT manager who had the impossible task of making sure a bunch of semi-pros didn't embarrass themselves at the 1994 World Cup. (Gift link, but you should subscribe to the excellent Defector.)
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When Team USA Needed To Get World Cup Ready, It Needed Boraball | Defector
The following is excerpted from The Long Game by Leander Schaerlaeckens, to be published on May 12, 2026 by Viking. It is available for purchase now. Velibor Milutinović, or Bora to both friend and fo...
https://defector.com/when-team-usa-needed-to-get-world-cup-ready-it-needed-boraball?giftLink=60955f6be00f875612dd6a9793704bda#coral_thread
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Leander **BUY THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens
19 days ago
My book, THE LONG GAME: U.S. Men's Soccer and Its Savage, Four-Decade Journey to the Top, or Thereabouts, is out today by
@vikingbooks.bsky.social
. I found a ton of fresh stories. I think both hardcore fans and the USMNT-curious will like it. I'm really proud of the book and hope you'll read it.
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The Long Game by Leander Schaerlaeckens: 9780593653876 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The gripping account of the U.S. men’s national soccer team’s winding saga from obscurity to the global stage as they stand on the brink of a seminal World Cup in 2026 For almost half a century,...
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722130/the-long-game-by-leander-schaerlaeckens/
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Leander **BUY THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens
9 months ago
🚨🚨You can now pre-order my book, THE LONG GAME, on the United States men's national soccer team and its messy rise from total international irrelevance to, well, TBD!🚨🚨 I spoke to ~150 players/coaches/etc. and got fresh stories and unprecedented access!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722130...
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The Long Game by Leander Schaerlaeckens: 9780593653876 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The gripping account of the U.S. men’s national soccer team’s winding saga from obscurity to the global stage as they stand on the brink of a seminal World Cup in 2026. For almost half a century,...
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722130/the-long-game-by-leander-schaerlaeckens/
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THE THINKING MACHINE author Stephen Witt on the risks of AI:
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We spy THE FROZEN PEOPLE by
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Reactor Magazine
11 months ago
It's a BIG month for SFF-crossover stories! You can find a half-orc romance, a ravenous university faculty, and an ex who "happens" to "maybe" be the antichrist in this list of all 42 (!) SFF-adjacent books coming out July 2025!
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All the New Horror, Romantasy, and Other SFF Crossover Books Arriving in July 2025 - Reactor
Monsters, assassins, sorceresses, at least one silent film star's malevolent ghost, and many others appear in July's 42 (!) new crossover titles.
https://reactormag.com/new-sff-crossover-books-july-2025/
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THE FROZEN PEOPLE by
@ellygriffiths.bsky.social
is on sale TODAY! A historical fiction novel, gripping detective mystery, and time-travel story all wrapped into one, THE FROZEN PEOPLE is "a pleasure from finish to start." (
@anthonyhorowitz.com
) 🕰️✨ Start reading now 👉
bit.ly/44P6KIC
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Debutiful
11 months ago
The first 2026 debut book to land at Debutiful HQ is SCAVENGERS by Kathleen Boland! It arrived January 13th from
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Laurie Gwen Shapiro
11 months ago
20 Books Coming in July via The New York Times Twisty summer thrillers, magical romances, a true story of a marriage pushed to the brink and more. The Aviator and the Showman
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@nytimes.com
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Congratulations
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social
! HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER is a NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! 🎉🍾💫 Learn more about the book and start reading now 👉
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12 months ago
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Dwyer Murphy
12 months ago
2 weeks until pub and a few places have said nice things about THE HOUSE ON BUZZARDS BAY and the good people
@vikingbooks.bsky.social
put those statements on a backdrop of murderous seagulls and osprey, for which I'm very grateful.
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Nothing keeps a village together like secrets. From the creator of Broadchurch
@chrischibnall.bsky.social
, DEATH AT THE WHITE HART is a brilliant new detective story following one man’s death and the secrets that unravel in a coastal English village. On sale now! 👉
bit.ly/4mV8RS6
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Molly Jong-Fast
12 months ago
I’m sorry to be that person but please please please buy my book or come to my reading or request at your local library. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Molly Jong-Fast
12 months ago
That dog, the one in the book died this weekend
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Molly Jong-Fast on Human Frailty and Unlearning Erica Jong’s Lessons
It was a week that felt like a year, one of those weeks that contained all the scary things you might spend your life worrying about, the things that might never happen. Our very elderly diabetic d…
https://lithub.com/molly-jong-fast-on-human-frailty-and-unlearning-erica-jongs-lessons/
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"[Jong-Fast] fights her way through the grief and rage with sharp self-awareness and a sense of humor that never deserts her." On sale today,
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social
's HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER is one of Oprah Daily's Best Summer Reads! ☀️📚 Get your copy now 👉
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12 months ago
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The wait is over! Maggie Stiefvater's "mesmeric, original, and stunning" (Chris Whitaker) debut novel THE LISTENERS is on sale TODAY! Dive into this mesmerizing portrait of an irresistible heroine, an unlikely romance, and a hotel—and a world—in peril now 👉
bit.ly/3FGOJT1
12 months ago
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“Grief and rage coincide with comedy and uptown-literati charm" (New York Times) in
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social
's memoir HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER, on sale today! Start reading now 👉
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“With propulsive humor and perspective on her annus horribilis,
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social
achieves the memoir’s transformative work of alchemy." Read
@washingtonpost.com
's review of HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER, on sale now! 👇
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Review | Molly Jong-Fast’s memoir about her famous mom is sad, dishy and relatable
In “How to Lose Your Mother,” Jong-Fast lays bare a terrible time in her life, when she put her mother, the writer Erica Jong, into a memory-care facility.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/05/28/erica-jong-molly-fast-how-lose-mother-memoir-review/
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"Roughly twenty hours after the Electra took off, it went down somewhere in the Pacific. The location is still unknown. The ocean has kept its secret." Read an excerpt of
@lauriestories.bsky.social
's THE AVIATOR AND THE SHOWMAN, on sale July 15! (via
@newyorker.com
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Amelia Earhart’s Reckless Final Flights
The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/amelia-earharts-reckless-final-flights
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Laurie Gwen Shapiro
12 months ago
My
@newyorker.com
excerpt of The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon just went up—and I’m thrilled to finally share it. June 9 print for magazine -
@vikingbooks.bsky.social
book out July 15
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Amelia Earhart’s Reckless Final Flights
The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/amelia-earharts-reckless-final-flights
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"This raw, intimate memoir is a stunning portrait of difficult relationships and how we survive them." HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER by
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social
(on sale tomorrow) is one of PEOPLE's Best Nonfiction Books of Summer 2025! 👉
bit.ly/3ZFt0li
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On sale tomorrow,
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social
's memoir HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER is "mesmerizing, intimate, wise, unputdownable... beautiful and painful at the same time, just like real life." (
@annelamott.bsky.social
) Learn more and preorder your copy now 👉
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12 months ago
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Hamilton Cain
about 1 year ago
Yet another literary jewel from the Emerald Isle! Here's my review of Donal Ryan's "Heart, Be at Peace" for
@nytimes.com
. Out next week from
@vikingbooks.bsky.social
:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/b...
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A Noirish Tale of an Irish Town on Edge, Told in 21 Voices
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/books/review/donal-ryan-heart-be-at-peace.html
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Molly Jong-Fast
about 1 year ago
OMG OMGGGGG
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HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER by
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(on sale June 3) was included in the
@nytimes.com
roundup of 21 Non-fiction Books Coming This Summer!
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21 Nonfiction Books Coming this Summer
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/books/review/21-nonfiction-books-coming-this-summer.html
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Marcus Rediker
about 1 year ago
Here is a ten-minute sample of the audiobook edition of *Freedom Ship*, just published by
@vikingbooks.bsky.social
. It is narrated by my friend and former student Cornell Womack.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JRh...
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Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping… by Marcus Rediker · Audiobook preview
YouTube video by Google Play Books
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JRh09HdQRE
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💖🥂 THE NAMES by Florence Knapp is a New York Times bestseller! 🥂💖 Thank you to all the folks who have read, loved, and shared their support for this "truly mesmerizing and profound" (
@alisonespach.bsky.social
) debut novel! Get your copy 👉
bit.ly/3SBQzaF
about 1 year ago
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Congratulations to Donal Ryan! 🎉 HEART, BE AT PEACE (on sale May 20) is a finalist for the 2025 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award! Learn more 👉
bit.ly/43nuuTp
about 1 year ago
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Congratulations to Ana Raquel Minian! ✨🎉 IN THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY is the WINNER of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction! Learn more 👉
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Molly Jong-Fast
about 1 year ago
The first serial of my very personal memoir drops tomorrow on
@vanityfair.com
and I am super scared and freaked out. Anyway since I live online I thought I’d share.
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Molly Jong-Fast
about 1 year ago
Some personal news
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Penguin Books
about 1 year ago
💥🥊 HEADSHOT is a FINALIST for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction! 🥊💥 Please join us in sending a MASSIVE congratulations to Rita Bullwinkel and her "brilliant" (
@theatlantic.com
) and "hard-punching novel." (
@npr.org
) ✨ Start reading now 👉
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Pamela Dorman Books
about 1 year ago
“Dazzling… THE NAMES is startlingly joyful and paced like a thriller… Knapp tirelessly and beautifully replicates not just loss and grief but endless rebirth and delight.” —@washingtonpost.com Read the full review 👉
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Review | In Florence Knapp’s dazzling debut, a name can change destiny
In “The Names,” three parallel storylines unfold based on what a mother decides to call her son.
https://wapo.st/4k8736k
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Pamela Dorman Books
about 1 year ago
📣 MAJOR BOOK CLUB NEWS 📣 THE NAMES by Florence Knapp is the
#ReadWithJenna
Book Club Pick for May! Start reading this "truly gorgeous, heart-opening novel" (
@annnapolitano.bsky.social
) about fate, chance, and the choices we make now 👉
bit.ly/3FPeHDx
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"Old sport, it’s delightful.” 💚 Read
@apnews.com
's review of THE GATSBY GAMBIT by Claire Anderson-Wheeler, on sale now!
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Book Review: Claire Anderson-Wheeler pays homage to Fitzgerald with mystery ’The Gatsby Gambit'
Irish writer Claire Anderson-Wheeler does more than just adapt one of the American literary canon’s most famous works in “The Gatsby Gambit.” She inserts F.
https://apnews.com/article/gatsby-gambit-claire-anderson-fitzgerald-review-7e9d43bc2da132fa9fad1b92bd6bff9b
about 1 year ago
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New York Post
about 1 year ago
The acid queen: Inside Rosemary Leary’s life of sex, free-thinking and lots of LSD
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The acid queen: Inside Rosemary Leary’s life of sex, free-thinking and lots of LSD
A new book describes the eclectic life of Rosemary Woodruff Leary.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/19/lifestyle/inside-rosemary-learys-life-of-sex-free-thinking-and-of-lsd/
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Read an exclusive excerpt of THE ACID QUEEN by Susannah Cahalan, which tells the untold story of Rosemary Leary and her life with the high priest of LSD! via
@rollingstone.com
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Inside Timothy Leary's Audacious Prison Escape
An exclusive excerpt of Acid Queen by Susannah Cahalan, which tells the untold story of Rosemary Leary and her life with the high priest of LSD
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/inside-timothy-prison-escape-acid-queen-excerpt-1235303212/
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Dr. Drew harvell
about 1 year ago
Thanks LitHub for publishing an extract of The
#Octopus's
Shape Shift from The
#OceansMenagerie
, just released on Earthday! See event schedule at
DrewHarvell.com
#marinelife
#cephalopod
#scuba
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Dr. Drew harvell
about 1 year ago
Love the write up for Ocean's Menagerie in Yale Climate Connections Top 12 Earth Month Books
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Marcus Rediker
about 1 year ago
Always a thrill. I just received my first copy of *Freedom Ship* — a distillation of five years of work and a companion volume to *The Slave Ship*. The book will be published by
@vikingbooks.bsky.social
May 13. Pre-order here:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566407...
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THE ACID QUEEN by Susannah Cahalan is on sale TODAY! ✨ "Part romance, part thriller, all astounding," (Maureen Callahan) THE ACID QUEEN shines an overdue spotlight on pioneering psychedelic seeker Rosemary Woodruff Leary! Start reading now 👉
bit.ly/4jGxPSX
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Canongate
about 1 year ago
'When she campaigned for Leary’s release from prison, she wore a severe black mini dress, oversized sunglasses with pink lenses, and a bold amulet necklace emblazoned with three letters: LSD' The Acid Queen by Susannah Cahalan is out on 5 June! Pre-order here:
buythebook.online/theacidqueen
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The Little-Known Story of Rosemary Woodruff Leary, Style Icon of the Counter Culture (and Psychedelic Pioneer)
https://www.vogue.com/article/the-little-known-story-of-rosemary-woodruff-leary
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Dr. Drew harvell
about 1 year ago
Happy
#EarthDay
and Release Day!
#BookTalk
tonight and The Times London Book of the Week! “The
#OceansMenagerie
a marine smorgasbord of the spineless. "...she has discovered is magic and bewildering, astonishing creatures that challenge our idea of animalhood"
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
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THE OCEAN'S MENAGERIE by
@drewharvell.bsky.social
is on sale today! 🦑📖🐳 A tale of biological marvels, a story of a woman’s passionate connection to an adventurous career in science, and a call to protect the world’s most ancient ecosystems, start reading now 👉
bit.ly/44A08y0
about 1 year ago
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THE DEATH OF US by Abigail Dean is on sale TODAY! ✨📖 A literary thriller, a decades-spanning romance, and a thoughtful meditation on the aftermath of violence, start reading the book
@stephenking.bsky.social
calls a "page-turner par excellence" now 👉
bit.ly/4ju1Xkh
about 1 year ago
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🚨 MAJOR COVER REVEAL 🚨 Calling all
#ThursdayMurderClub
fans! We're thrilled to reveal the cover of the fifth book in
@richardosman1.bsky.social
's beloved, bestselling series! Learn more about THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTUNE, coming September 30 👉
bit.ly/4jruaZb
about 1 year ago
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GODSTRUCK by Kelsey Osgood is on sale today! A contemporary exploration of religious conversion and the relationship between faith and fulfillment, GODSTRUCK is "essential reading for the curious and the skeptical alike." (Elisa Albert) Start reading 👉
bit.ly/3RcDEeN
about 1 year ago
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