Editor's Note
2026 will be here before you know it, and things are looking pretty promising on the book front. Last week, we mentioned Ann Patchett’s Whistler, due in June. Novels by Ruta Sepetys and Susannah Felts will also be released that month (see the News Roundup below for links). You won’t have to wait quite that long for Tayari Jones’ Kin, which will arrive in March. If nonfiction is more your thing, Rev. James Lawson Jr.’s Nonviolent: A Memoir of Resistance, Agitation, and Love, co-written with Emily Yellin, arrives in February. Susan Eva O’Donovan’s Moving Toward Freedom: The Political Education of Enslaved Americans will be published in March, as will David George Haskell’s How Flowers Made Our World.
Of course, that’s just a sampling of all the good things to come next year. Stay tuned for our coverage of all those books and more. On the site today, we’re taking a look at two recently released novels. Liz Garrigan reviews Come Again No More, David Wesley Williams’ fictional tribute to newspapers as they once were, and Sean Kinch reviews Soft Lighting, an experimental novel by Jared Joseph. In his essay “I Was a Teenage Voyeur,” Richard Schweid remembers growing up in Nashville, not quite sure who he wanted to be.
News Roundup
- Ruta Sepetys talked about her forthcoming novel, A Fortune of Sand, with People.
- Susannah Felts revealed the cover of her forthcoming novel, The Come Apart.
- Hampton Sides discussed writing about the past with Albuquerque Journal.
- The Shape of Wonder by Alan Lightman and Martin Rees was reviewed in Psychology Today.
- Work by Amy Wright, Ted Olson, and Angie Kinman is featured in the latest issue of Appalachian Places.
