Reverse-Gentrification of the Literary World

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Subject: Forthcoming

A Sun Behind Us / Un sol caído avanza

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Forthcoming: 12/2/25

An illuminating new collection from the latest winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, selected by Germán Guerra and granted by the National Poetry Series; published in both English and Spanish.

A Sun Behind Us/Un sol caído avanza representa el iluminado poemario ganador del Premio Paz de Poesía otorgado por la Serie Nacional de Poesía. El libro premiado en el año 2024 ha sido seleccionado por Germán Guerra y será publicado en edición bilingüe (español-inglés).

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The Book of Harlan

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Forthcoming: 4/7/26

This 10-year anniversary edition of Bernice L. McFadden’s NAACP Image Award–winning classic explores the Holocaust from the perspective of two African American musicians imprisoned at the Buchenwald concentration camp

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House of the Rising Sun

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Forthcoming: 5/5/26

When Artie Howell moves with his wife back to her sleepy hometown, he must protect their son Nicky from the skeletons coming out of the closets from both of their pasts.

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Go the Fuck to College

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Forthcoming: 5/5/26

This laugh-out-loud, latest installment in Adam Mansbach’s profane, #1 New York Times best-selling series, probably CAN be read to—and by—your graduating child, though it might bring you all to tears

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The Thinning

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Forthcoming: 6/2/26

An eclipse is coming, and with it, a young woman’s one chance to save the world, in this gripping speculative environmental thriller

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Fame: The Hijacking of Reality (Paperback edition)

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Forthcoming: 6/2/26

A passionate and critical analysis of the life cycle of Fame, from film producer/director and former worldwide TV star Justine Bateman; featuring a brand-new preface to the paperback edition

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What You Should Worry About

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Forthcoming: 6/2/26

In this beautifully crafted and often hilarious debut novel, thirty-seven-year-old Layla Moody must navigate the coronavirus pandemic lockdown while finding family on her own terms.

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Stranded in the Future

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Forthcoming: 7/7/26

Hitchcock’s second memoir explores the formation of his seminal 1970s band the Soft Boys, and the obsessions that fueled his early creative output.

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We’ve Got a Bigger Problem Now: The Dead Kennedys Photographs

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Forthcoming: 9/29/26

Glen E. Friedman’s most iconic images of Dead Kennedys, as well as many never-before-seen photographs; with words from Shepard Fairey and Jello Biafra

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The Angel at the Gates

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Forthcoming: 10/6/26

A man’s quest to resolve an inherited family trauma leads him to an enigmatic priory in a war-ravaged region, from which he’s not sure he will be able to flee

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A Good Haunting: Stories

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Forthcoming: 11/3/26

A beautifully written and often speculative story collection infused with Caribbean and African myths and cultures, exploring love, betrayal, motherhood, death, and home

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Wildest: Poems

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Forthcoming: 12/1/26

This National Poetry Series–winning debut collection asks how we can make meaning in our lives during a time of ecological crisis and rampant social injustice

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