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THE RADIANCE by Ayad Akhtar is out today! From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and acclaimed author of HOMELAND ELEGIES comes...
09/29/2026

THE RADIANCE by Ayad Akhtar is out today!

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and acclaimed author of HOMELAND ELEGIES comes a daring, visionary, and contemplative novel. Equal parts campus novel, spiritual awakening, and mystery, THE RADIANCE is of our American moment and beyond it—asking not only what has broken, but what radiance remains.

Esquire profiled Ayad, asking him about the inspiration behind his new book, and how he became the foremost chronicler of the Muslim American experience.
Read more: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a73824681/ayad-akhtar-the-radiance/

🚨Sweepstakes Alert🚨 We are happy to announce our first giveaway. Click the link below for a chance to win three of the h...
09/29/2026

🚨Sweepstakes Alert🚨

We are happy to announce our first giveaway. Click the link below for a chance to win three of the hottest books publishing this fall!

🍁The Radiance by Ayad Akhtar: A gripping campus novel following the aftermath of a writer's mysterious hit and run which sparks an awakening, an investigation, and a scandal that threatens to destroy his life📑

🎥Mazywood by Tananarive Due: From the author of THE REFORMATORY comes a literary thriller set primarily in the present day, with flashbacks to Hollywood’s Golden Age filled with rage, secrets, and terror 🎞️

📔Peck & Peck by Bonnie Garmus: The author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY returns with an irresistible novel about a young man whose life turns upside down when he is hired by the most prestigious, secretive, and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world✒️

Submit your entry here: https://bit.ly/47a9nFz

(No purc. nec., 18+, 9/29/26 – 10/16/26) Please view the full rules here or at the link: https://bit.ly/47a9nFz)

09/22/2026

Historical horror fans, this video is for you 🐈‍⬛ Listen to Tananarive Due speak about her award winning novel, THE REFORMATORY, set in Jim Crow Florida, and MAZYWOOD (OUT TODAY!), set primarily in the present day, with haunting flashbacks to Hollywood’s Golden Age 🎞️🎬

Learn more about Tananarive: https://bit.ly/47bMwsS

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month 🎉Check out some incredible books to read during these next four weeks (and beyond!) to cel...
09/15/2026

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month 🎉

Check out some incredible books to read during these next four weeks (and beyond!) to celebrate the voices and contributions of our Hispanic authors!

Our innovative, bestselling, and award-winning speakers explore the Hispanic experience from their unique and insightful perspectives 🎤

Learn more about our Hispanic Heritage Month Speakers: https://bit.ly/4dG4DLd

A new month is around the corner, which means, NEW BOOKS! Learn more about these books and add them to your TBR 📚Sept 8:...
08/31/2026

A new month is around the corner, which means, NEW BOOKS! Learn more about these books and add them to your TBR 📚

Sept 8: ART ATTACK by James Ponti. The Sherlock Society goes undercover in the Miami street art scene to find an anonymous graffiti artist.

Sept 22: MAZYWOOD by Tananarive Due. This literary thriller follows the grandson of a famous Black actress who returns to his grandmother’s cabin retreat in the California mountains only to encounter the legacy of her rage born in Old Hollywood.

Sept 29: THE RADIANCE by Ayad Akhtar. A mysterious accident along a country road sparks an awakening and an investigation in Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and acclaimed novelist Ayad Akhtar’s most daring work yet.

08/21/2026

You may know Sadeqa Johnson from her bestselling books THE HOUSE OF EVE and KEEPER OF THE LOST CHILDREN! Listen to what she has to say about making the shift from contemporary to historical fiction 📚

Learn more about Sadeqa! https://bit.ly/4qyKFaz

08/18/2026

📘To celebrate pub day for WHAT WILL THEY SAY?, we asked Denise Soler Cox about her dream in conversation partner!

Learn more about Denise! https://bit.ly/4poqZol

07/29/2026

Have you ever asked the question "Are you mad at me?"

Meg Josephson, a NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author and therapist, explains why this question resonates with so many and the emotions hidden underneath the words 💬

07/24/2026

Are you familiar with A'Lelia Walker? She was called "the joy goddess of Harlem's 1920s" by Langston Hughes for her lavish parties and patronage of the arts ✒️🪩

🎤 Our speaker, A'Lelia Bundles, wrote a vibrant biography of her great-grandmother which is now out in paperback 📚

Learn more about A'Lelia: https://bit.ly/4fuR7u9

The S&S Speakers Bureau has welcomed five new authors to the roster!Ayad Akhtar is the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright...
05/28/2026

The S&S Speakers Bureau has welcomed five new authors to the roster!

Ayad Akhtar is the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of DISGRACED and author of HOMELAND ELEGIES and THE RADIANCE (forthcoming 9/29).
Learn more Ayad: https://bit.ly/4nNQjUK

Bill Burnett and Dave Evans are the #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling authors of DESIGNING YOUR LIFE and co-founders of the Life Design Lab at Stanford.
Learn more about Bill: https://bit.ly/4nU0MhE
Learn more about Dave: https://bit.ly/4wMWz3v

Bonnie Garmus is the #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of the global phenomenon, LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY.
Learn more about Bonnie: https://bit.ly/4nPGUMx

Lauren Roberts is the #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of the POWERLESS Trilogy.
Learn more about Lauren: https://bit.ly/4fDEcaU

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