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11/12/2019

Megan Phelps-Roper on Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church

The Westboro Baptist Church is known for picketing military funerals and its celebration of death and tragedy. Megan Phelps-Roper is the granddaughter of the church’s founder and was one of its staunchest members. But seven years ago, she broke away and now works to combat extremism. She sits down with Amanpour and Company to talk about her journey and new memoir UNFOLLOW.

🔗📕 Learn more about UNFOLLOW: https://macmillanfyebooks.wordpress.com/2017/10/20/unfollow/

"Unfollow" author Megan Phelps-Roper explains why she left the Westboro Baptist Church.

11/11/2019

We Are the Weather — or why saving the planet begins at breakfast

Jonathan Safran Foer asks: what will it take to spur us to act in a crisis that feels distant? (Financial Times)

🔗📘 Learn more about WE ARE THE WEATHER: https://us.macmillan.com/tradebooksforcourses/academictrade/9780374280000/wearetheweather

Jonathan Safran Foer asks: what will it take to spur us to act in a crisis that feels distant?

10/29/2019

Oliver and Elio Are Back

“[FIND ME] is a lyrical meditation on being forced to move to another location after the party’s over, on the Sisyphean task of trying to replicate the magic of young passion . . . it strikes an affectingly melancholy chord.”

The New York Times Books reviews Andre Aciman's sequel to CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, FIND ME—out today!

With “Find Me,” André Aciman has written a surprising sequel to “Call Me by Your Name.”

10/14/2019

After Georgia Southern book burning, professors explain why they teach author's work

After Georgia Southern book burning, professors explain why they teach author Jennine Capó Crucet's work.

https://www.newsweek.com/georgia-southern-university-book-burning-jennine-capo-crucet-1464731

Students burned her book after the question and answer portion of the author's talk turned into a shouting match about white privilege.

10/11/2019

PEN America

PEN America

Students at Georgia Southern University who burned an author’s book engaged in a disturbing practice that emblemizes hostility toward free expression, PEN America said in a statement today. Read the full statement at https://bit.ly/31cBAal.

10/10/2019

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019

Farrar, Straus and Giroux author Peter Handke has won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2019! #NobelPrize #NobelPrize2019 🎉

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2019/bio-bibliography/

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019 was awarded to Peter Handke "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience".

10/09/2019

'GMA' launches Cover to Cover book club: See our first pick

Congratulations to Angie Cruz whose book, DOMINICANA, is the inaugural book for Good Morning America's new Cover to Cover book club!

https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/gma-launches-cover-cover-book-club-dominicana-angie-66113130

"GMA" is launching a book club called Cover to Cover. Learn more about our first book pick, "Dominicana," a novel by Angie Cruz.

10/08/2019

2019 National Book Awards Longlists announced.

Congratulations to Macmillan Publishers's National Book Awards finalists—Susan Choi, Khaled Khalifa & Leri Price, Ilya Kaminsky, and Carmen Gimenez Smith! #NBAwards 🎉🎉🎉

https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2019/

Finalists revealed on October 8.

10/04/2019

Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns

"I suspect that the key to disrupting the flow of carbon into the atmosphere may lie in disrupting the flow of money to coal and oil and gas." Bill McKibben in The New Yorker.

🔗📘 Learn more about his latest book, FALTER:
https://us.macmillan.com/tradebooksforcourses/academictrade/9781250178268/falter

What if the banking, asset-management, and insurance industries decided to move away from fossil fuels?

10/03/2019

The 10 Best Debut Novels of the Decade

Literary Hub names SEVERANCE by Ling Ma and WHAT BELONGS TO YOU by Garth Greenwell on their list of the 10 Best #Debut Novels of the Decade!

🔗📕 Learn more about SEVERANCE: https://us.macmillan.com/tradebooksforcourses/academictrade/9781250214997/severance

🔗📗Learn more about WHAT BELONGS TO YOU: https://us.macmillan.com/tradebooksforcourses/academictrade/9781250117892/whatbelongstoyou

Friends, it’s true: the end of the decade approaches. It’s been a difficult, anxiety-provoking, morally compromised decade, but at least it’s been populated by some fine literatur…

09/25/2019

A Slain Jewish Girl’s Diary of Life Under the Soviets and the Nazis

Described as a counterpart to Anne Frank’s diary, a journal written by Renia Spiegel, a Jewish girl who lived in Poland during World War II, is being published in English. (The New York Times)

Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal is available now from St. Martin's Press.

🔗📘 Learn more about Renia's Diary: https://us.macmillan.com/tradebooksforcourses/academictrade/9781250244024/reniasdiary

Described as a counterpart to Anne Frank’s diary, a journal written by Renia Spiegel, a Jewish girl who lived in Poland during World War II, is being published in English.

09/19/2019

Nonfiction - 70th National Book Awards

THE END OF THE MYTH has been longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction! Congratulations, Greg Grandin! 🎉 #NBAwards

https://www.nationalbook.org/2019-national-book-awards-longlist-for-nonfiction/

Announcing the ten titles on the Longlist for the 2019 National Book Award for Nonfiction

09/18/2019

The 2019 National Book Awards Longlist: Poetry

DEAF REPUBLIC and BE RECORDER have been longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry! Congratulations to Ilya Kaminsky and Carmen Giménez Smith! #NBAwards

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-2019-national-book-awards-longlist-poetry

Many of this year’s choices are inflected with a sense of political urgency and emergency, and all the poets on the list are first-time contenders.

09/18/2019

Translated Literature - 70th National Book Awards

DEATH IS HARD WORK, THE COLLECTOR OF LEFTOVER SOULS, and SPACE INVADERS have been longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature!

Congratulations to Khaled Khalifa, Eliane Brum, and Nona Fernández, and translators Leri Price, Diane Grosklaus Whitty, and Natasha Wimmer! 🎉 #NBAwards

https://www.nationalbook.org/2019-national-book-awards-longlist-for-translated-literature/

Announcing the ten titles on the Longlist for the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature

09/16/2019

Nonfiction Book Review: We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-28000-0

“In an unconventional but persuasive manner, novelist Foer (HERE I AM) explains why taking meaningful action to mitigate climate change is both incredibly simple and terribly difficult. Writing from an intensely personal perspective, he describes the difference between understanding and believing, making clear that only the latter can motivate meaningful action . . . Foer’s message is both moving and painful, depressing and optimistic, and it will force readers to rethink their commitment to combating ‘the greatest crisis humankind has ever faced.’”

Publishers Weekly gives Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, WE ARE THE WEATHER, a rave 🌟starred🌟 review!

🔗📘 Learn more about WE ARE THE WEATHER: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374280000

In an unconventional but persuasive manner, novelist Foer (Here I Am) explains why taking meaningful action to mitigate climate change is both incredibly simple and terribly difficult. Writin

09/13/2019

Jennine Capó Crucet and Post-Trump Latinx Literature - Los Angeles Review of Books

“Remarkable . . . an interrogation of the American Dream, of American myths, and the whiteness that undergirds it all. MY TIME AMONG THE WHITES is also a thoughtful exploration of what it means to be a first-generation college student, a child of immigrants, and a professor to boot . . . An exploration of what it means to be Latinx in the time of Trump."

Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) raves about Jennine Capó Crucet's new book, MY TIME AMONG THE WHITES.

Learn more about the book: https://us.macmillan.com/tradebooksforcourses/academictrade/9781250299437/mytimeamongthewhites

Renee Hudson reviews Jennine Capó Crucet’s “My Time Among the Whites.”

09/04/2019

Coming of Age as an Immigrant Child Bride

"Compelling . . . An intimate portrait of the transactional nature of marriage and the economics of both womanhood and citizenship, one all too familiar to many first-generation Americans.”

Jennine Capó Crucet (author of MY TIME AMONG THE WHITES) reviews Angie Cruz's DOMINICANA for The New York Times Books.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/03/books/review/coming-of-age-as-an-immigrant-child-bride.html

The teenage heroine of Angie Cruz’s new novel, “Dominicana,” holds the weight of her family’s American dream on her shoulders.

08/29/2019

Slavery and the Holocaust: How Americans and Germans Cope With Past Evils

"The history wars shape far more than how we remember the past. They shape the societies we bequeath to future generations. Susan Neiman’s book is an important and welcome weapon in that battle."

The New York Times Books reviews Susan Neiman's new book, LEARNING FROM THE GERMANS.

Susan Neiman’s “Learning From the Germans” looks at the different ways two countries deal with their history.

08/07/2019

Chia-Chia Lin’s Haunting Immigrant Novel

"These gaps in a family story are the secrets that one is initiated into only when much older. The Unpassing, Chia-Chia Lin’s debut novel, is concerned with those empty spaces. Narrated by Gavin, a slight, nervous 10-year-old, the second-eldest child in a Taiwanese immigrant family living in rural Alaska, The Unpassing illuminates these unspoken, shadowy moments of childhood."

The Nation Magazine raves about THE UNPASSING by Chia-Chia Lin.

🔗📘: https://us.macmillan.com/tradebooksforcourses/academictrade/9780374279363/theunpassing

Set in a dreamlike Alaska, The Unpassing examines the hope and tragedy of a Taiwanese-American family. 

08/02/2019

Briefly Noted Book Reviews

"A passionately argued rejection of closed borders. Humanizing the current exodus from the Global South, Mehta portrays individual migrants and shows how inextricable their journeys are from the political, economic, and ecological consequences of colonialism, global capitalism, and cheap fossil fuel."

The New Yorker featured Suketu Mehta's THIS LAND IS OUR LAND in their "Briefly Noted" column.

🔗📗: https://us.macmillan.com/tradebooksforcourses/academictrade/9780374276027/thislandisourland

“This Land Is Our Land,” “Eric Hobsbawm,” “Juliet the Maniac,” and “The Learning Curve.”

07/27/2019

The Aesthetic Beauty of Math

"There’s a kind of cumulative marvelousness to math, to its landscape of ideas. Here is an elaborate model world, in which the more you explore, the more fantastic it gets."

THE WEIL CONJECTURES author Karen Olsson writes for The Paris Review.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/22/the-aesthetic-beauty-of-math

The best mathematics, like the best literature, will continue to cause intense emotional satisfaction to thousands of people after thousands of years.

07/22/2019

The Best Books About the Apollo Program and Landing on the Moon

"Collins writes with an eloquence and a humor that captures both the profundity and sheer awesomeness of flying to the moon."

Michael Collins's CARRYING THE FIRE leads Smithsonian Magazine's list of the best books about the moon landing. #Apollo50 #Apollo11

🔗📙: https://us.macmillan.com/tradebooksforcourses/academictrade/9780374537760/carryingthefire

From astronaut autobiographies to definitive accounts from leading historians, these are the must reads about the landmark mission

07/17/2019

Staff Picks: Peonies, Poetry, and Passing Things

"Though THE TOPEKA SCHOOL is heavily steeped in mid-90’s American liberalism and home phone lines, Lerner plots history with a contemporary eye to reconcile where we were then with where we stand now. It’s rare to find a book that is simultaneously searing in its social critique and so lush in its prose that it verges on poetry."

The Paris Review selects Ben Lerner 's new novel, THE TOPEKA SCHOOL (available Oct. 2019), as one of their Staff Picks.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/06/28/staff-picks-peonies-poetry-and-passing-things/

This week, the staff of ‘The Paris Review’ reads a book in a single sitting, dives deeper into Natalia Ginzburg, and finally hears Bill Callahan smile.

07/16/2019

a book review by Marissa Moss: Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight

"In this wide-ranging story of exploration, Fetter-Vorm captures both the mystical pull of the moon and the many men and women who worked hard to understand and reach it."

#Apollo11 launched #onthisday in 1969. Celebrate #Apollo11at50 by diving into MOONBOUND, Jonathan Fetter-Vorm's graphic exploration of the Apollo 11 mission and the history of humanity's spaceflight innovations. #Apollo50

🔗📙: https://us.macmillan.com/tradebooksforcourses/academictrade/9780374537913/moonbound

Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm book review. Click to read the full review of Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight in New York Journal of Books. Review written by Marissa Moss.

07/15/2019

Educators—we are thrilled to announce that Metropolitan Books will publish Edel Rodriguez's graphic memoir in 2021! We cannot wait to share this inspiring and important book with you.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/book-deals/article/80671-book-deals-week-of-july-15-2019.html

I’m very happy to share that my memoir has been acquired by Metropolitan Books/Macmillan. The book will be a fully illustrated graphic memoir. It will delve into my childhood in Cuba during the Cold War, my family’s migration to the United States, and my work as an artist in today’s America. From Publishers Weekly: Cuban-American artist Edel Rodriguez sold a graphic memoir, at auction, to Riva Hocherman at Metropolitan Books. Hocherman took North American rights, to ‘Worm’ from agent Holly McGhee at Pippin Properties. The book is slated for publication in 2021.

07/11/2019

‘The British Are Coming’ Review: History as Enchantment

"The narrative is the stuff of novels, [but] Mr. Atkinson’s facts are drawn from a wealth of manuscript and printed sources. He quotes aptly and with acumen . . . Mr. Atkinson weaves it all together seamlessly, bringing us with him. Pithy character sketches—reminiscent of 18th-century historians David Hume and Edward Gibbon, both of whom Mr. Atkinson cites—bring the dead to life.”
—The Wall Street Journal raves about Rick Atkinson's newest New York Times bestseller, THE BRITISH ARE COMING.

🔗📘 Learn more about THE BRITISH ARE COMING: https://us.macmillan.com/tradebooksforcourses/academictrade/9781627790437/thebritisharecoming

A storyteller’s account of the Revolution, from Lexington to Princeton, full of momentous events and larger-than-life characters.

06/17/2019

Opinion | No George Washington, no America

"One lesson of THE BRITISH ARE COMING is the history-shaping power of individuals exercising their agency together: the volition of those who shouldered muskets in opposition to an empire . . . The more that Americans are reminded by Atkinson and other supreme practitioners of the historians’ craft that their nation was not made by flimsy people, the less likely it is to be flimsy."

The Washington Post reviews Rick Atkinson's new New York Times bestseller, THE BRITISH ARE COMING.

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The Revolutionary War was fought by history-making individuals.

06/12/2019

Opinion | My Stutter Made Me a Better Writer

"Stuttering is a violent incantation that can break open normal conversation. What happens in that breach is up to the stutterer and her listener . . . The central irony of my life remains that my stutter, which at times caused so much suffering, is also responsible for my obsession with language. Without it I would not have been driven to write, to create rhythmic sentences easier to speak and to read. A fascination with words thrust me into a vocation that has kept me aflame with a desire to communicate."

FLASH COUNT DIARY author Darcey Steinke writes for The New York Times Opinion Section.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/opinion/reading-writing-stuttering.html

At times it caused suffering, but it also gave me a passion for words and language.

06/06/2019

'This Land Is Our Land' Argues For Migration

“Award-winning author Suketu Mehta takes the reader on a global tour of the forces that shape our desire to migrate and tells the stories of the migrants themselves, arguing that mass migration is the defining human phenomenon of the 21st century and that we should welcome it.”

NPR's Weekend Edition interviews THIS LAND IS OUR LAND author Suketu Mehta.

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/02/729050371/this-land-is-our-land-argues-for-migration

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Suketu Mehta, author of This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto, which argues for more immigrants in America and elsewhere.