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• Anne Applebaum's TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY was called, "An often sobering, sometimes shocking, but never despairing account of the rise of authoritarianism in the West” (Los Angeles Times). Prospect magazine has named Applebaum one of “The Top 50 Thinkers of the Covid-19 Age.”

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• Shruti Swamy’s A HOUSE IS A BODY was featured on Time magazine’s list of “12 New Books You Should Read in August," BuzzFeed’s list of “29 Summer Books You Won’t Be Able to Put Down,” and Literary Hub’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2020."

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• Elizabeth Wetmore’s NYT Bestseller VALENTINE has published over 80,000 copies and is longlisted for both The Center for Fiction’s 2020 First Novel Prize and the Crook’s Corner Book Prize.

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• The NYPL Schomburg Center’s “Black Liberation Reading List” includes Frantz Fanon’s THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH.

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• Lydia Conklin’s short story “LARAMIE TIME” has won a Pushcart Prize!

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• Chelsea Bieker’s GODSHOT is longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s 2020 First Novel Prize! She was also awarded a 2020 Meret Grant from the Freya Project.

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• Literary Hub’s “Quarantine Book Recommendations” included Marie Ndiaye’s THREE STRONG WOMEN and André Breton’s NADJA.

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• Simon Han has won the 2020 Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award!

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• Aria Aber has won the 2020 Whiting Award in poetry!

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• Novuya Rosa Tshuma's novel HOUSE OF STONE has been shortlisted for the 2020 Balcones Fiction Prize!​