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

14 de enero - Pico Iyer
En llamas

14 de enero - Scott Turow
Presunto culpable

28 de enero - Imani Perry
Negro en Blues: Cómo un color cuenta la historia de mi pueblo

25 de febrero - Curtis Sittenfeld
Mostrar sin contar: Historias

18 de marzo - Ezra Klein y Derek Thompson
Abundancia

25 de marzo - Colum McCann
Giro

30 de abril - Rick Atkinson
El destino del día

5 de mayo - Pablo Cartaya
Guía del héroe para las vacaciones de verano

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

May 6 –  Jill Bialosky
 The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother

13 de mayo - Ocean Vuong
El Emperador de la Alegría

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

May 20 – Yiyun Li
 Things in Nature Merely Grown

27 de mayo - Stephen King
Nunca te acobardes

June 3 – Geoff Dyer
Homework

June 10 – Edward Hirsch
My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, A Skokie Elegy

August 5 – Jamaica Kincaid
Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974–

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

4 de noviembre - Margaret Atwood
Libro de vidas: A Memoir of Sorts

November 4 – Salman Rushdie
The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories

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

November 25 – Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Updated)

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