\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Simon & Schuster<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tBy Taylor Jenkins Reid<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tAfter several of her novels spent years in adaptation purgatory \u2014 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo<\/em> was first optioned in 2019 \u2014 Jenkins Reid finally made it to the big screen with the Prime Video sensation Daisy Jones & The Six<\/em>. While audiences await the next book-to-screen move, Jenkins Reid continues to churn out delightfully frothy reads. This summer\u2019s release is Atmosphere<\/em>, which follows a female astronaut who finds love while training for a space flight.<\/p>\n \n\tOn shelves now<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Random House<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tBy Shawn Levy <\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tLevy \u2014 the acclaimed author, not the Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em> director \u2014 has written biographies of Hollywood heavyweights like Robert De Niro and Paul Newman, so it stands to reason that it was only a matter of time before he tackled Clint Eastwood. In the first literary exploration of the 95-year-old actor-director\u2019s career, Levy examines Eastwood\u2019s cinematic milestones and personal flaws (and his old-school Libertarian beliefs) in equal measure.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tOn shelves July 1<\/em><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Mariner Books<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tBy Adam Roberts<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tKnown online as The Amateur Gourmet, Roberts has built a career as a food blogger and a screenwriter. Now, he\u2019s turning his real-life career into fictional fodder. Food Person <\/em>centers around struggling writer Isabella Pasternack, who gets fired from a digital magazine and winds up taking a job ghostwriting a cookbook for a formerly beloved (and now scandal-ridden) television actress. This debut novel is part romp, part satire and frequently mouthwatering. Do not read on an empty stomach.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tOn shelves now<\/em><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Knopf<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tBy Gary Baum<\/p>\n \n\tAt The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>, senior writer Baum covers everything from entertainment-biz scandals to the restaurant world (his 2017 feature on Hollywood fixture Angelyne became the Emmy Rossum-fronted Peacock limited series). In his first novel, he turns his pen on the darker side of his home city \u2014 and his profession. In Pursuit of Beauty<\/em> follows a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon whose unconventional methods land her in jail, and the potentially unwitting journalist who agrees to ghostwrite her story from the other side of her prison cell.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tOn shelves July 1<\/em><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Blackstone Publishing<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tBy Aisha Muharrar<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tMuharrar is a comedy connoisseur \u2014 the Harvard<\/em> Lampoon <\/em>alum had her first break in the writers room of Parks and Recreation<\/em> and went on to write for The Good Place <\/em>and Hacks<\/em> (she won an Emmy for her \n\tOn shelves Aug. 12<\/em><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of HarperCollins<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tBy Jon Raymond<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tA longtime screenwriter and collaborator with Kelly Reichardt and Todd Haynes, Raymond has helped pen First Cow<\/em>, Showing Up<\/em>, Mildred Pierce<\/em> and the ultimately doomed (and untitled) Haynes-Joaquin Phoenix project. He sets his latest novel in the Pacific Northwest, where the lives and livelihoods of its residents are severely affected by the climate crisis. Protagonist Arthur begins an affair with the wife of one of his friends, and turns to God and prayer when a looming climate disaster threatens her life. The narrative is both dangerously close to home (there\u2019s a terrifying forest fire) and intriguing.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tOn shelves Aug. 5<\/em><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Simon & Schuster<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tEdited by Damon Young<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tThrough his debut memoir What Doesn\u2019t Kill You Makes You Blacker<\/em>, his blog Very Smart Brothas<\/em> and his Crooked Media podcast Stuck<\/em>, Young has built a media empire while exploring the legacy of Black culture. To compile this collection of essays, short stories and letters that explores comedy in and about the Black community, he tapped A-list literary contributors including Hanif Abdurraqib, Kiese Laymon and Roy Wood Jr.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tOn shelves now\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\tAtmosphere <\/em>\t<\/h2>\n
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<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\t\tClint: The Man and the Movies<\/em>\t<\/h2>\n
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<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\t\tIn Pursuit of Beauty<\/em>\t<\/h2>\n
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work on season three). But her novel, one of the summer\u2019s most anticipated books<\/a>, leans more melancholic than her onscreen oeuvre. In Loved One<\/em>, a young woman travels from L.A. to London after the death of a close friend and former flame, where she encounters his most recent ex. The two women butt heads over the dead man\u2019s remaining possessions and struggle against the grief they are trying to keep buried.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\t\tGod and Sex\u00a0<\/em>\t<\/h2>\n
<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\t\tThat\u2019s How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor<\/em>\t<\/h2>\n