If you’d like to keep up with our SVWC family, check out the latest news, articles, book releases, interviews, and awards from our past writers and presenters. We will continue to update this blog as more exciting news comes out of the world of publishing, so be sure to check back periodically. Also, if you’d like to suggest something we missed, please reach out!

NOTEWORTHY NEWS

Check out the article about “Salman Rushdie’s Literary Inspirations” in The New Yorker.

Tommy Orange awarded a 2025 MacArthur grant.

“The Safekeep” by Yael van der Wouden won the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Check out Todd Purdum’s op-ed in the New York Times, Hollywood Couldn’t Imagine a Star Like This One.

2025 BOOK RELEASES

January 14 – Pico Iyer
Aflame

January 14 – Scott Turow
Presumed Guilty

Jan 28 – Imani Perry
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People

February 25 – Curtis Sittenfeld
Show Don’t Tell: Stories

March 18 – Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson
Abundance

March 25 – Colum McCann
Twist

April 30 – Rick Atkinson
The Fate of the Day

May 5 – Pablo Cartaya
A Hero’s Guide to Summer Vacation

May 6 – Isabel Allende
My Name is Emilia del Valle: A Novel

May 13 – Ocean Vuong
The Emperor of Gladness

May 13 – Dave Barry
Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up

May 27 – Stephen King
Never Flinch

June 10 – Geoff Dyer
Homework

September 6 – Mary Roach
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy

September 16 – John T. Edge
House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home

September 23 – Ian McEwan
What We Can Know

October 7 – Beth Macy
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America

October 14 – Susan Orlean
Joyride: A Memoir

November 4 – Margaret Atwood
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts

November 4 – Elizabeth Kolbert
Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World

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