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Mar 14, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Andrew Stauffer |Jane Austen |Carlos Eire |David Herszenhorn
Wings of Desire A gullible new book raises the question of how we should interpret the history of the supernatural in early modernity.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
cambridge.org | Andrew Stauffer |Jerome McGann |Greek Revolution |Roderick Beaton
Letters to friends, relatives, lovers and more form the core of this biography, published by Cambridge University Press to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Byron's death. Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame – and scandal – before finding a kind of redemption in the Greek Revolution.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Andrew Stauffer |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |
A user-friendly biography of the major Romantic poet, framed around some of his most revealing missives.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Keith O'Brien |Megan Kimble |Andrew Stauffer |Samantha Simon
Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of BaseballSports biographies don’t get much better than this enthralling and tragic account of the career of Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s all-time hits leader. Sportswriter O’Brien (Paradise Falls) describes how Rose was pressed from an early age by his father (whose own dreams of a pro baseball career were never realized) to excel at sports.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Megan Kimble |Andrew Stauffer |Julie Schwartz Gottman |Samantha Simon
Anna Gazmarian. Simon & Schuster, $27.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-6680-0403-6Gazmarian’s dazzling debut memoir delivers a potent examination of the intersection between faith and mental health. Raised as an evangelical Christian—a designation she continues to identify with—Gazmarian long struggled with religious doubt, which is often considered anathema in her spiritual circles. As a freshman in college, she was rebaptized in an attempt to quell that doubt.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Steven Kurutz |Megan Kimble |Andrew Stauffer |Samantha Simon
American Flannel: How a Band of Entrepreneurs Are Bringing the Art and Business of Making Clothes Back HomeNew York Times journalist Kurutz (Like a Rolling Stone) details in this encouraging report the efforts of entrepreneurs working to bring clothing manufacturing back to the U.S. The percentage of domestically produced clothes in Americans’ wardrobes has fallen from 70% in 1980 to 2% today, Kurutz notes.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Megan Kimble |Andrew Stauffer |Julie Schwartz Gottman |Samantha Simon
Jack McCallum. Hachette, $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-306-83075-4In this rousing history, sportswriter McCallum (Dream Team) chronicles how future NBA Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson led Crispus Attucks High School’s basketball team to Indiana state championship titles in 1955 and 1956, making the Attucks Tigers the first all-Black team in the nation to win a state title.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Megan Kimble |Andrew Stauffer |Julie Schwartz Gottman |Samantha Simon
Johnny Cirillo. Abrams Image, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4197-6994-8Photographer Cirillo (Watching New York) delivers a sumptuous visual feast of New York City street style. Drawing inspiration from “legendary” street fashion photographer Bill Cunningham, who died in 2016, Cirillo wanders the streets of New York daily, capturing some of the city’s quirkiest characters and the style that sets them apart.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Michael Arceneaux |Megan Kimble |Andrew Stauffer |Samantha Simon
The distinctive voice of essayist Arceneaux (I Don’t Want to Die Poor) enlivens his agile latest collection. “Please Unblock Me, Toni Braxton” discusses how Arceneaux’s rising profile over the past several years has led to sometimes awkward interactions with such celebrities as Don Lemon and Kevin Hart, whom he’s written critically about.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Megan Kimble |Andrew Stauffer |Julie Schwartz Gottman |Samantha Simon
Heather McCalden. Hogarth, $29 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-59647-0Visual and performance artist McCalden grapples in her singular debut memoir with the void left by her parents’ deaths from AIDS as well as her own struggle to extract meaning from the tragedy. McCalden’s parents died in the early 1990s, when she was 10 years old.
