Bookspotting Bookspotting: Austin is reading How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball February 22, 2016 Amy Brinker Austin, in Knopf Production, is reading How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball. Find out more about the book here:
News 4 National Book Award Fiction Semi-Finalists Join 9 Other Penguin Random House Longlisters September 17, 2015 Amy Brinker The 2015 National Book Award Fiction Longlist was unveiled this morning, with four Penguin Random House titles recognized as semi-finalists: Earlier this week, these Penguin Random House books were selected for their respective National Book Award Longlists. Nonfiction RAIN: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett (Crown) Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau; Penguin Random House Audio, narrated by the author) Love and Other Ways of Dying by Michael Paterniti (The Dial Press) Ordinary Light: A Memoir by Tracy K. Smith (Alfred A. Knopf) Poetry Scattered at Sea by Amy Gerstler (Penguin Books) How to be Drawn by Terrance Hayes (Penguin Books) The Beauty by Jane Hirshfield (Alfred A. Knopf) Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis (Alfred A. Knopf) Elegy for a Broken Machine by Patrick Phillips (Alfred A. Knopf) Head to nationalbook.org to browse all the finalists.