Congratulations to our 2024 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists! Biography winner: KING: A LIFE by Jonathan Eig General Nonfiction winner: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ABED SALAMA by Nathan Thrall Fiction finalists: WEDNESDAY’S CHILD by Yiyun Li Biography finalist: LARRY MCMURTY: A LIFE by Tracy Daugherty General Nonfiction finalists: COBALT RED: HOW THE BLOOD OF THE Know More » […]
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Kirkus Best Books of 2023
Announcing the Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2023! FICTION MYSTERY AND THRILLER NIGHT WILL FIND YOU by Julia Heaberlin REYKJAVÍK by Ragnar Jónasson and Katrín Jakobsdóttir BOOK CLUB BIRNAM WOOD by Eleanor Catton SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY THE DEEP SKY by Yume Kitasei A DAY OF FALLEN NIGHT: A ROOTS OF CHAOS NOVEL by Samantha Know More » […]
Kirkus Best Books of 2015 – Nonfiction
In addition to their Best Fiction list, Kirkus Reviews unveiled their Best of 2015 Nonfiction lists which include 20 Macmillan titles: Best Nonfiction GIVE US THE BALLOT: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman THE CRIME AND THE SILENCE: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne by Anna Bikont IRREPRESSIBLE: Know More » […]
Friday Reads: Literary Standouts
TGIF! This weekend we recommend you soak up the sun while enjoying one of these recent literary standouts on shelves now: A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN by Lucia Berlin “[Lucia Berlin] may just be the best writer you’ve never heard of…” (Publishers Weekly, boxed & starred review) and her short story collection has received THREE Know More » […]
The Story Behind the Story of Joseph Heller
Tracy Daugherty's biography of Joseph Heller, JUST ONE CATCH, earned a starred review from Booklist as well as an article about the story behind the story.
While writing his biography of Donald Barthelme (HIDING MAN), Daugherty and his editor here at St. Martin's Press had a brief conversation about tackling Joeseph Heller for his next biography. Daugherty says, "I had taught CATCH-22 for many years in my college classes. One day I decided to reread it. Then I reread Heller’s other books. And then I began to get very interested." And the rest is history. Brilliantly detailed history, in fact.
As Booklist says it in their starred review, "Brilliantly detailed and constructively analytical, Daugherty’s groundbreaking portrait of the prophetic, contradictory, and essential Joseph Heller is dramatic and revelatory."
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