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From rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars, a page-turning literary adventure featuring “your favorite author’s favorite authors” (Today)—the women who inspired Jane Austen.

Now in paperback!
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IN HER DEFENSE by Philippa Malicka is a Reese's Book Club February pick! Twisty and propulsive, In Her Defense is a compulsively readable debut for fans of Lucy Foley and Laura Dave. Available now: https://bit.ly/47L5SVB

In the vein of Kafka’s Jewish mysticism, Daniel Poppick's The Copywriter is a comic story about a poet working by day as a copywriter that asks: how should an artist balance a job and life when art doesn’t fit into either category?

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Love, madness, and mischief — the Gilberts’ story will haunt you.
The Infamous Gilberts by Angela Tomaski, now available! Perfect for fans of LOST LAMBS.
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Get your tickets for the 2/4/26 P&T Knitwear convo btwn two award winning poets: Patricia Smith, 2025 National Book Award Winner for THE INTENTIONS OF THUNDER and Diamond Forde, winner of the 2025 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets for THE BOOK OF ALICE: https://bit.ly/45c6Cmu

“Raw, riveting, and deeply human. Will leave you inspired to face and outlast your life battles” –Sahil Bloom, author of The 5 Types of Wealth

Everything you want is on the other side of hard. Are you willing to go there?

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Discover what truly made humans powerful — not just our minds, but our mastery of energy and tools.

The Powerful Primate by Roland Ennos, available 2/17: https://bit.ly/4iPuBgE

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, SEEKING SHELTER by Jeff Hobbs follows a single mother of six in Los Angeles courageously struggling to keep her family together and her children in school amid the devastating housing crisis.
In paperback on 2/10! https://bit.ly/4c2RMTn

Tonight is a full moon! 🌕

The full moon plays an important role in Mizuki Tsujimura's How to Hold Someone in Your Heart, the follow-up to Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon.

Mark your calendars for all of 2026's full moons, and the release of this heartwarming novel on 3/17! https://bit.ly/4rlxPeV

"With panic and urgency." How does Diamond Forde write a poem?

Learn from the winner of Winner of the 2025 James Laughlin Award from The Academy of American Poets and grab your copy THE BOOK OF ALICE: https://bit.ly/3U5Za6k

Letter From Minnesota: On Living in the Hour of Cities Under Siege “On Living in the Hour of Cities Under Siege” It is a time of being sorted by skin and hair, by mother tongue, as being from here or there, as pepper spray fills in the air until the whole city sti…

“On Living in the Hour of Cities Under Siege” by Carolyn Forché in Literary Hub forthcoming from Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2026, to be published by Scribner in September 2026. https://bit.ly/4rrWizq

On 2/3, catch Daniel Poppick, author of THE COPYWRITER, in conversation with Megan Fernandes at McNally Jackson! Details and tickets:
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As a sensational celebrity libel trial unfolds, a young woman at the periphery secretly wields the power to make or break the case. But with her own hidden past, will she dare to speak up?

In Her Defense by Philippa Malicka: https://bit.ly/47L5SVB

First Novel Friday at The Center For Fiction features Daniel Poppick, author of THE COPYWRITER, and other exciting novelists! Tickets and details: https://bit.ly/3NTPQm3

All the Sad Unliterary Men | Kevin Power David Szalay’s recent novel Flesh captures with unsparing accuracy the consciousness of an ordinary man in helpless decline.

"David Szalay’s recent novel Flesh captures with unsparing accuracy the consciousness of an ordinary man in helpless decline."

FLESH by David Szalay covered in The New York Review of Books!
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“A stunning and heart-gripping tale.” —André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name

LIE WITH ME by Philippe Besson, translated by Molly Ringwald. Now on sale for a limited time: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lie-With-Me/Philippe-Besson/9781501197895

“Diamond Forde’s newest poetry collection is as much a restoration as it is a reimagining, a return of Black women to our rightful place as the center of the world and of the Word....This is a book I’ll keep close to my heart." —Deesha Philyaw

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Congrats to Evan Osnos, author of THE HAVES and HAVE-YACHTS, finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay! Full list here: https://bit.ly/4rnEIwo

A surreal literary fiction novel with “a dark, delicious edge” (Time) about a woman in Silicon Valley who must decide how much she’s willing to give up for success.

Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter, on sale: https://bit.ly/45vGAe6

Lineage in Verse: The Book of Alice - WALTER Magazine Poet, author and NC State University professor Diamond Forde discusses her latest body of work and the woman who inspired it.

"The book that my grandmother found solace in is the very same book that was used as a tool of oppression and to justify enslavement and regulate women..."

Diamond Forde, author of THE BOOK OF ALICE, interviewed in Walter Magazine: https://bit.ly/4qaf9hh

This darkly hilarious and “delicious new novel that ravishes with sex and food” (The Boston Globe) from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today is a “precise blend of desire, discomfort, spirituality, and existential ache” (BuzzFeed).

MILK FED by Melissa Broder: https://bit.ly/3Nz9ALO

"A timely, critical work of nonfiction that illuminates so much of what we're living through today." —Cleyvis Natera

A chronicle of Colombia’s descent into civil war told through the lens of one formidable grandmother.

The Violence by Adriana E. Ramírez, available 4/14: https://bit.ly/4aKEsT7

The spectacular New York Times bestseller about a lighthouse keeper and his wife is "a beautifully delineated tale of love and loss, right and wrong, and what we will do for the happiness of those most dear" (The Boston Globe).

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David Szalay, The Booker Prize Winner for FLESH, is going on tour! This April catch him at the locations below. Learn more about the tour here: https://bit.ly/3ODGKHh

The praise for THE FIRST TIME I SAW THEM by Laura Dave continues pouring in!

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“A must-read for today’s politics” (San Francisco Chronicle), the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on America’s class problem, collected in one searing and insightful volume.
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Jennette McCurdy Is Over Cringey Sex Writing Jennette McCurdy discusses her debut novel, Half His Age, writing sex without cringe, adapting her own work for the screen, and her five favorite books.

In a Bustle One Nightstand interview With Jennette McCurdy, McCurdy calls FLESH one of her favorite books: https://bit.ly/49OGkJC

"Nowhere are we more aware of Colm Tóibín’s mastery of the human psyche and soul than in his short stories.” —Betsy Burton, The King's English Bookshop

Catch Colm Tóibín on tour for THE NEWS FROM DUBLIN on sale 3/31! https://bit.ly/4pNIEpU

The newly discovered lost text of Arthur Koestler’s modern masterpiece, Darkness at Noon—the haunting portrait of a revolutionary, imprisoned and tortured under totalitarian rule—is now restored and in a completely new translation.

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A surreal literary fiction novel with “a dark, delicious edge” (Time) about a woman in Silicon Valley who must decide how much she’s willing to give up for success.

Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter, on sale: https://bit.ly/45vGAe6