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02/21/2025

Excited to see THEORY & PRACTICE highlighted in the current issue of People - now on stands!

They call it a "complex, lyrical story of relationships, feminism, and academic pressure." 💛

02/21/2025

🚨 Big news! Applications for our partner program are now open! If you love chatting about books online, this is the perfect chance to get the latest info about Catapult, Counterpoint, and Soft Skull Press titles before they release. Head here to apply now: https://forms.gle/kGBBLhAFTkpbHiBs5

02/20/2025

"I realised how absurd it would be for Kit and me to die alone when all that separated us was a few suburban blocks. For the first time I dialled his number."

Read the full excerpt from THEORY & PRACTICE via Literary Hub .

My mind kept returning to Leo’s, and I’d be sitting opposite Olivia, watching her stir her tea. I wondered if Kit knew that we’d seen each other. I didn’t tell him, because mentioning her felt awkw…

02/18/2025

Happy publication day to Michelle de Kretser's THEORY & PRACTICE! 🥳

A new novel of startling intelligence from prizewinning Australian author Michelle de Kretser, THEORY & PRACTICE follows a writer as she looks back on her young adulthood and grapples with what happens when life smashes through the boundaries of art.

⭐ "THEORY & PRACTICE is anything but conventional. It is something new, born of the recognition between holding two truths in mind at once." — Los Angeles Times

⭐ "A warm and funny read by one of Australia’s finest writers." — The Boston Globe

⭐ "Entrancing . . . Both flinty and sinuous." — Harper's Magazine

⭐ "A ferociously intelligent novel from a writer at the height of her powers." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Theory & Practice is a thrillingly original hybrid work that seeks truthful answers to the most difficult questions of the day—questions about the nature of love, art, and desire, about the thorny cultural legacy of colonialism and the unappeasable human yearning for connection.” —Sigrid Nu...

02/12/2025

WAITING FOR THE LONG NIGHT MOON is a Goodreads editors' pick for February!

Here at Goodreads World Headquarters, we sort through a lot of books each month. Our­ monthly Readers' Most Anticipated Books feature is exactly that—s...

02/11/2025

Today is the day! Amanda Peters' WAITING FOR THE LONG NIGHT MOON is officially on sale! 🌔 ✨

From the bestselling author of THE BERRY PICKERS 🫐, WAITING FOR THE LONG NIGHT MOON describes the Indigenous experience from an astonishingly wide spectrum in time and place—from contact with the first European settlers, to the forced removal of Indigenous children, to the present-day fight for the right to clean water.

In this intimate collection, Amanda Peters melds traditional storytelling with beautiful, spare prose to describe the dignity of the traditional way of life, the humiliations of systemic racism and the resilient power to endure. At times sad, sometimes disturbing but always redemptive, the stories in WAITING FOR THE LONG NIGHT MOON will remind you that where there is grief there is also joy, where there is trauma there is resilience and, most importantly, there is power.

✨ Named a February 2025 Indie Next Pick & Amazon Books Best Book of the Month ✨

🌔 "A must-read." — People

🌔 "Searing and insightful . . . Don't miss this one." — Ms. Magazine

🌔 "An impressive collection rooted in the grief, trauma, tradition, resilience, and hope of Indigenous peoples." — Kirkus Reviews

🌔 "Affecting and wide-ranging." — Publishers Weekly

02/07/2025

💋 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 💋 Fans of A GOOD HAPPY GIRL can rejoice! We are pleased to share the cover of highly anticipated second novel, SWEETENER! Designed by Sarah Brody, with art direction by Nicole Caputo. 💕

SWEETENER hits bookstores and libraries on 8.19.25 and is available to preorder now!

About the book:
From the author of A GOOD HAPPY GIRL, a messy le***an novel following two exes who turn to online dating after their dramatic split—only to end up seeing the same woman

In SWEETENER, recently separated wives—both named Rebecca—can’t seem to disentangle their lives. Lonely and depressed, Rebecca is scraping by as a part-time cashier at an organic grocery store. Despite having less than ten dollars in her bank account, she lists herself as a sugar mama on a le***an hookup app, where she connects with Charlotte, an artist who, unbeknownst to Rebecca, is also dating her wife.

The other Rebecca, a doctoral student who is newly motivated to stay sober, has discovered a way to fulfill her dream of becoming a parent without getting pregnant. She wants to foster a child, and because the Rebeccas are still legally married, she needs her wife to attend classes as part of the approval process.

Neither Rebecca asks if this means they’re getting back together, but the possibility of a reunion sends Charlotte into a tailspin. As Charlotte navigates her desire for each Rebecca—or her desire for attention—her world becomes Gumby-like and surreal, not least because she’s been wearing a pregnancy belly and only one of the Rebeccas knows it isn’t real.

Sumptuous, sticky, and slightly absurd, SWEETENER brings together three women fixated on the fantasy of motherhood, and how they might best fill the role in someone else’s life.

02/04/2025

Happy paperback publication day to Hanna Johannson's ANTIQUITY!

Elegant, slippery, and provocative, ANTIQUITY is a q***r Lo**ta story by prize-winning Swedish author Hanna Johansson—a story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo.

✨ "Highbrow brilliant." — New York Magazine
✨ "Hypnotic." — Vanity Fair
✨ "A delicious slow-burn meditation on desire, envy, language, and memory." — Vulture
✨ "A beautifully drawn portrait." — Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)

02/01/2025

We're pleased to share that THE COIN was selected as a finalist! Huge congratulations to author Yasmin Zaher! ✨

Check out the full list of finalists & read more about the prize here: https://www.ptknitwear.com/browse/2024-gotham-book-prize-finalists

01/30/2025

Enter now for a chance to win Samina Ali's forthcoming memoir PIECES YOU'LL NEVER GET BACK on Goodreads ! 📚

At 29, as a young writer working on her first novel, Samina Ali nearly died giving birth to her son. Miraculously, she survived the unchecked eclampsia that had endangered her pregnancy, instead sustaining major brain injury and falling into a coma as she gave birth. When she woke up, only her deepest memories were intact.

Advised to think of her brain as a shattered puzzle, Ali began the long and difficult journey of piecing herself back together: learning to walk, speak, and accomplish basic human tasks alongside her newborn. She attempted to reckon with her past identity as a writer and a wife, and her new identity as a mother.

PIECES YOU'LL NEVER GET BACK is a deeply personal, searching, and ultimately, inspiring work of memoir.

A life-altering neurological disorder. A traumatic birt…

01/29/2025

Read an excerpt from Christina Cooke's BROUGHTUPSY (now available in paperback!) via Autostraddle .

Chirp of tree frogs floating sonorous, each piercing chirrup rising on the wane of the last. I’m in my childhood home.

01/28/2025

Happy paperback pub day to Christina Cooke's BROUGHTUPSY! 🥳

At once cinematic yet intimate, BROUGHTUPSY is an enthralling debut novel about a young Jamaican woman grappling with grief as she discovers her family, her home, is always just out of reach.

⭐ "Poetic." — Vogue
⭐ "Overflowing with emotion.” — Elle Magazine
⭐ "A moving coming-of-age story.” — Booklist
⭐ "Vivid." — Publishers Weekly

01/27/2025

A RETURN TO SELF has been named a most-anticipated book by Paste Magazine!

"Ambitious in scope and impressive in its ex*****on, this blended nonfiction work holds two truths at once: humanity’s tendency toward destruction and discrimination, as well as its compulsion toward connection."

From deeply personal stories to crackling social observations, these are the most anticipated nonfiction books and memoirs of 2025.

01/23/2025

HELLO STRANGER author Manuel Betancourt shares some of the books that shaped his adolescence, helped inspire his latest novel, and what he's looking forward to reading next, via Debutiful .

Manuel Betancourt’s debut book, The Male Gazed, somehow didn’t cross my path until well after it came out. The book, which takes a critical eye toward pop culture and q***r desire, orig…

01/23/2025

NYC! Join Jamaican writers Dionne Irving, Maisy Card, Prince Shakur, and Christina Cooke for a celebration of BROUGHTUPSY’s paperback release at The Bush next week. Come on down and enjoy drinks, snacks, and books to purchase from Cafe con Libros, Bk !

01/22/2025

Thrilled to see forthcoming books by Amanda Peters, Benedict Nguyen , and Sarah Aziza included in this most-anticipated round up by Ms. Magazine !📚

Reads for the Rest of Us: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025—new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.

01/16/2025

The New York Times calls Manuel Betancourt's HELLO STRANGER "a persuasive and well-researched disquisition on the edifying and seductive potential of those we don’t yet know." 💜

In his new essay collection, Manuel Betancourt explores the beauty, depth and riches found in brief romantic encounters with unfamiliar people.

01/14/2025

Happy publication day to Manuel Betancourt's HELLO STRANGER!

Witty and winkingly playful, Manuel Betancourt’s newest collection explores modern q***r romance and the expansive possibilities of ephemeral intimacies. At once a personal excavation and a broad cultural critique, Betancourt grapples with everything from online sexting and real-life cruising to divorces and throuples. HELLO STRANGER examines the intimacies we crave, value, and oftentimes destroy with rote familiarity.