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... 🧪

"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... 🧪

By me!

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.)

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.

🚨🚨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...

THE THINKING MACHINE author Stephen Witt on the risks of AI:

We spy THE FROZEN PEOPLE by @ellygriffiths.bsky.social on this list!

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! reactormag.com/new-sff-cros...

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

The first 2026 debut book to land at Debutiful HQ is SCAVENGERS by Kathleen Boland! It arrived January 13th from @vikingbooks.bsky.social

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 @vikingbooks.bsky.social @nytimes.com

Congratulations @mollyjongfast.bsky.social! HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER is a NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! 🎉🍾💫 Learn more about the book and start reading now 👉 bit.ly/451tkyp

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.

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

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. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

That dog, the one in the book died this weekend lithub.com/molly-jong-f...

"[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 👉 bit.ly/451tkyp

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

“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 👉 bit.ly/451tkyp

“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! 👇

"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)

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...

"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

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 👉 bit.ly/451tkyp

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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HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER by @mollyjongfast.bsky.social (on sale June 3) was included in the @nytimes.com roundup of 21 Non-fiction Books Coming This Summer!

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...

💖🥂 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

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

Congratulations to Ana Raquel Minian! ✨🎉 IN THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY is the WINNER of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction! Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4iXuG0e

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.

Some personal news

💥🥊 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 👉 bit.ly/421h7aU

“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 👉 wapo.st/4k8736k

📣 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

"Old sport, it’s delightful.” 💚 Read @apnews.com's review of THE GATSBY GAMBIT by Claire Anderson-Wheeler, on sale now!

The acid queen: Inside Rosemary Leary’s life of sex, free-thinking and lots of LSD

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

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 @vikingbooks.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lite...

Love the write up for Ocean's Menagerie in Yale Climate Connections Top 12 Earth Month Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/04/12-b...

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...

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

'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

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...

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

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

🚨 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

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