"Mother love & mother violence form an indivisible braid in Sasha Bonét’s deeply felt memoir...[O]bservant, thoughtful & poetic.... Her account of both her family history & the lives of her tributaries show off her gifts to the fullest." @aaknopf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...

Artist Tschabalala Self calls Sasha Bonét's THE WATERBEARERS "a Black American classic." @bombmag.bsky.social "[It] is not just a book; it’s a living archive, a testimony, & a reckoning, one which Sasha so generously shares w/ us in equal parts tenderness & clarity." bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

Don't miss this beautiful excerpt of Sasha Bonét's THE WATERBEARERS in ELLE this week @aaknopf.bsky.social www.elle.com/culture/book...

Happy publication week to Sasha Bonét, whose gorgeous debut, THE WATERBEARERS: My Mother, My Grandmother, and the Women Who Carried Me, is now out in the world (and excerpted in Oprah Daily). @aaknopf.bsky.social www.oprahdaily.com/entertainmen...

"[A] dazzling, transformative work that reimagines Black womanhood, inviting us to reconsider how we understand ourselves as individuals, parents, communities and a nation." Deep South on THE WATERBEARERS @sashabonet.bsky.social (out 9/16 from @aaknopf.bsky.social) deepsouthmag.com/2025/09/09/f...

Congratulations, @calebgayle.bsky.social!!! BLACK MOSES is a contender for the National Book Award in Nonfiction!!! @nationalbook.bsky.social @riverheadbooks.bsky.social www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...

Thanks to @therootdotcom.bsky.social for including THE WATERBEARERS by Sasha Bonét in its September round-up! @aaknopf.bsky.social www.theroot.com/books-by-bla...

Included in the @vanityfair.com round-up of September staff favorites is Sasha Bonét's beautiful debut, THE WATERBEARERS ("a rich ode to Black matriarchy") @aaknopf.bsky.social www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

Love seeing Aaron Robertson among the 2025 Zora Awards nonfiction finalists for THE BLACK UTOPIANS! @fsgbooks.bsky.social people.com/2025-zora-aw...

"Today, with the White House attempting to control discussion of African American history...BLACK MOSES is a useful reminder that for nearly a century after the Civil War, what was called democracy was indistinguishable from white power." @calebgayle.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/b...

BLACK MOSES @calebgayle.bsky.social, excerpted this week in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social: "It is the story of trying, why we cannot stop trying, and why being able to try is worth remembering at all." @riverheadbooks.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this...

"[T]he moral decisions we must make [today] haven’t gotten easier. Who we detain, whose histories we erase, which freedoms we underfund.... The difference now is that there’s no Kansas to send our convictions to." @calebgayle.bsky.social @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/10/o...

@hamiltoncain.bsky.social calls BLACK MOSES @calebgayle.bsky.social "eloquent" & "engrossing." "Gayle does more than just rescue a forgotten yet crucial figure; he places McCabe at the center of radical liberation." @riverheadbooks.bsky.social @startribune.com www.startribune.com/edward-mccab...

Tx to @therootdotcom.bsky.social for featuring BLACK MOSES @calebgayle.bsky.social in its August Books round-up! @riverheadbooks.bsky.social @thegernertco.bsky.social www.theroot.com/august-2025-...

"If we are serious about holding this country together, we have to reckon w/ the real American inheritance, where ambition & betrayal, dreaming & dispossession, are not opposite. They are co-tenants." @calebgayle.bsky.social BLACK MOSES (8/12) @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Among the many reasons I cherish Sasha Bonét's THE WATERBEARERS (Knopf, Sept 16): its incomparably authentic, mold-shattering depiction of womanhood & single motherhood. Ty @publisherswkly.bsky.social for giving your cover to this life-changing new work. Get ready, world.

Love seeing Caleb Gayle's superb BLACK MOSES (Riverhead, Aug 12) on this list! @nytimes.com @calebgayle.bsky.social @riverheadbooks.bsky.social @thegernertco.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/b...

At the top of my reading list: @calebgayle.bsky.social's forthcoming BLACK MOSES, about a 19th-century Black visionary who dreamed of a state governed by and for Black people. It's my favorite kind of story--a buried history of resistance and possibility. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717975...

Congratulations to the stupendous new cohort of Whiting Award winners!!! @npr.org @mtaeckens.bsky.social @whitingfoundation.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/04/09/n...

Just call me Bubbles @aliahanna.bsky.social @broadside-pr.bsky.social aliahabib.substack.com/p/bubbles-of...

THE BLACK UTOPIANS + THE LIGHT EATERS are @latimes.com Bk Prize finalists! 👏 👏👏 to @zoeschlanger.bsky.social @sarahjgrimm.bsky.social Aaron Robertson (+ to @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social, rep'd by @broadside-pr.bsky.social's @mtaeckens.bsky.social, for ABSOLUTION)! www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

YES to this (and thanks also to Victor Luckerson, whose book, BUILT FROM THE FIRE, was frequently referenced in the report).

Ty @bostonglobe.com @katekilla.bsky.social for including THE BLACK UTOPIANS/Aaron Robertson, THE LIGHT EATERS/@zoeschlanger.bsky.social, + more @broadside-pr.bsky.social projects here! @fsgbooks.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social @sarahjgrimm.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/13/a...

Remember the names of these new Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grantees - their projects will start to roll out in the next year or so and each one is truly more spectacular than the next!

More Thanksgiving-timed good news for Aaron Robertson and THE BLACK UTOPIANS: The New York Public Library has named the book a 2024 Top Ten Best Book for Adults! @fsgbooks.bsky.social www.nypl.org/blog/2024/11...

Hooray! Hooray! Aaron Robertson’s beautiful debut, THE BLACK UTOPIANS (a “sensitive, often deeply personal exploration of utopianism in Black American thought and life”) is a @nytimes.com Notable Book! @fsgbooks.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Performers, creators, writers: only 2 spots left for this workshop (beginning 12/4) with Pulitzer (and Whiting)-winning playwright James Ijames and Pig Iron Theatre Co’s Dan Rothenberg. Deadline this Wed! pigiron.org/school/works...

Love seeing Aaron Robertson's THE BLACK UTOPIANS (and so many other Broadside PR-rep'd books) in TIME's glorious list of 100 Must Read Books of 2024! time.com/7172750/the-...

Pig Iron School's alum include Jen Kidwell & Scott Shepherd (Underground Railroad Game, a NYT Top 25 Best American Play Since Angels In America), Alex Tatarsky (2024 Whitney Biennial artist) + many others. Its graduates will continue to impress so watch this space! www.inquirer.com/arts/theater...

The @nytimes.com names THE BLACK UTOPIANS by Aaron Robertson one of 7 new recommended books this week! www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/b...

"[In THE BLACK UTOPIANS, Aaron] Robertson engages with serious and important themes without being didactic or heavy-hearted. On the contrary, the knowledge shared within the pages of this book is quite freeing and liberating." www.essence.com/entertainmen...

My day is made! Starred PW review of THE BLACK UTOPIANS (FSG; 10/1) by Aaron Robertson: "[A] must-read...Robertson paints a vivid and beguiling picture of the indomitable human yearning for a safe and nurturing home." www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-374-60...

THE BLACK UTOPIANS: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America (FSG; Oct 1) and its brilliant author, Aaron Robertson, named one of 10 Noteworthy Nonfiction Debuts for Fall '24 / Writers to Watch by PW. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

"If the Survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre Can’t Receive Reparations, Who Will?" The unstoppable Victor Luckerson (BUILT FROM THE FIRE, RH) in today's NYT