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Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Emma Straub’s short story collection, Other People We Married, on sale now, gets a shout out in Vanity Fair’s “Just My Type”

Vanity Fair’s Elissa Schappell shouts out Riverhead’s re-release of Other People We Married, calling author Emma Straub “one of the most preternaturally sunny and groovy-smart writers in Brooklyn.” To read the article, click here.

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Monday, February 06, 2012

The Washington Post reviews Sam Sommers’s “thought-provoking and entertaining” new book, Situations Matter

Situations Matter offers a blend of weighty and whimsical insights that makes for a thought-provoking and entertaining read.” To read the full review, click here.

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The New York Times raves about Ramona Ausubel

In a glowing review, The New York Times Book Review calls Ramona Ausubel's No One Is Here Except All of Us a "fantastical and ambitious first novel" and declares that "Ausubel’s novel is infused with faith in the power of storytelling."

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Wednesday, February 01, 2012

One of the world’s foremost Hannibal scholars gives Andreas Kluth’s Hannibal and Me a rave

“Rarely do books mainly about history make such entertaining reading…Kluth deserves every kudo for this book that shows his new Hannibal research is not beating a dead horse but rather a startlingly fresh outlook on an old mystery.” To read the full review by Patrick Hunt in Electrum Magazine, click here.

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Monday, January 30, 2012

Wenguang Huang’s forthcoming memoir, The Little Red Guard, gets a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly

"Illuminating…Huang’s coming-of-age story eloquently describes his family coping with change and how, in a turbulent time, he made sense of the world." To read the full, starred review, click here.  

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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Wenguang Huang, author of the forthcoming memoir The Little Red Guard, writes in Fortune about China’s economy

Wenguang Huang writes in Fortune about Chinese entrepreneurs’ interest in the U.S. To read the article, click here.  

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Monday, January 23, 2012

Los Angeles Magazine chooses two Riverhead titles as must-reads for January

Shalom Auslander’s “endlessly amusing” Hope: A Tragedy and Andreas Kluth’s “fascinating” Hannibal and Me are two of Los Angeles Magazine’s Critic’s Picks for January. To read the reviews and see the full list of picks, click here.  

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

The New York Times on Shalom Auslander's "staggeringly nervy" novel Hope: A Tragedy

"Other fiction writers have gotten this fresh with Anne Frank. But they don’t get much funnier.... He is an absurdist with a deep sense of gravitas. He brings to mind Woody Allen, Joseph Heller and — oxymoron here — a libido-free version of Philip Roth... It’s a tall order for Mr. Auslander to raise an essentially comic novel to this level of moral contemplation. Yet Hope: A Tragedy succeeds shockingly well." Read more...

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

The New York Journal of Books reviews Andreas Kluth’s “highly recommended” new book, Hannibal and Me

"Fight any urge to dismiss Hannibal and Me as boys-only self help. True, the book comes complete with warriors, military strategies, elephants, golf, and a seductress, but this book is a serious and fascinating exploration of issues many of us grapple with on a daily basis. Highly recommended." To read the full review, click here.

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Charlotte Silver remembers her mother's restaurant

Charlotte Silver talks to the Boston Globe about her mother's restaurant, Upstairs at the Pudding, and what it was like growing up in it's confines—the subject of her forthcoming memoir, Charlotte au Chocolat.

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