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.
Jamil Ahmad's The Wandering Falcon has been shortlisted for the prestigious Man Asian Literary Prize 2011. The winner will be announced in March. Congrats to Jamil Ahmad! To read more about the prize...
Bookpage picks three Riverhead titles for their end of year 25 Best Book Jackets of 2011 list: Helen Oyeyemi's Mr. Fox, Jeanne Darst's Fiction Ruined My Family and Meg Wolitzer's The Uncoupling. To see the entire list and check out the wonderful jacket designs, click here.
Publishers Weekly picks three Riverhead titles for their end of year Best Books of 2011 list. Jamil Ahmad's "captivating wonder" of a novel, The Wandering Falcon, Meghan O'Rourke's "eloquent" memoir, The Long Goodbye, and Jon Ronson's "droll, disturbing, and unforgettable" The Psychopath Test, all make the list. To see the entire list, click here.
Chang-rae Lee has won the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for fiction for his acclaimed novel, The Surrendered. Hurray! Read more...
The New York Times highlighted two Riverhead Books in its latest Newly Released Column.
Anna Solomon’s debut The Little Bride, got love for its heroine: “Minna is a terrifically complex heroine: a little snobby, a little selfish and wholly sympathetic.”
And a rave about Leah Hager Cohen’s latest, The Grief of Others: “In this subtle portrait of family life she shows the maddening arithmetic of marriage, the useless attempts to balance the equation. As Ricky and John’s kids start to come unglued themselves, we see how the grief of others is contagious. . . . Ms. Cohen’s painstaking excavation pays off, especially as Ricky and John decide to rebuild.”
Chang-rae Lee, author of The Surrendered, and Dinaw Mengestu, author of How To Read the Air, are the two Riverhead authors who are fiction finalists for the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Congrats to them both! Read more about the award and the finalists here...
Anna Solomon kicks off the Providence One Book, One Community programming for her debut The Little Bride with a reading from the book and songs inspired by the books performed by Clare Burson on September 15. More
Congratulations to Danielle Evans and Aleksandar Hemon for their PEN awards! The prize for a debut work of fiction will be split between Danielle, for her novel Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self and Susanna Daniel. Aleksandar received the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-Career, given to “an author who has published at least three significant works of literary fiction.” Read the full list of winners here.
