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In The Progressive, a major feature on Derek W. Black’s Dangerous Learning (Yale), described as “a gem of a book.” Read it here.

How great to see an interview with Noah Van Sciver and an excerpt from his new book, Joseph Smith and the Mormons (Abrams ComicArts) in the New Yorker. Check it out here.

How amazing to see a major exhibition of original pages from Derf Backderf’s Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio (Abrams ComicArts) at New York’s Society of Illustrators, where Derf accompanies such legends as Maurice Sendak, Al Hirshfeld, and Norman Rockwell.

In the New Republic, a comprehensive and insightful article on E.M. Forster, with keen praise for William di Canzio’s Alec (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) in particular. Read it here.

Congratulations to Derf Backderf for winning the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work for Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio (Abrams ComicArts)! Read about it here.

How great to see this terrific review of William di Canzio’s Alec (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) in the New York Times! “A sweeping romantic vision here that’s as old-fashioned as it is refreshingly modern…fiction as queer archaeology, demonstrating that looking back doesn’t necessarily mean looking backward.” Read it here.

The San Francisco Book Review calls Alex Zamalin’s Against Civility (Beacon) “an amazing book” that “provides an eye-opening view into why white calling for people to act ‘civil’ has racial undertones.” Read it here.

In her recent New York Review of Books article “The Dark History of School Choice,” education expert and historian Diane Ravitch relies heavily on Derek W. Black’s research in Schoolhouse Burning (PublicAffairs) to explore the connection between privatizing public education and segregating schools. Read it here.

Great to see that The Hardhat Riot (Oxford) is a New York Times notable book for 2020. In their recent review, the Times referred to David Paul Kuhn’s book as a “compelling narrative” that “vividly evokes a blue-collar rampage whose effects still ripple, not the least of them being Donald Trump’s improbable ascension to the presidency.”

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Forbes magazine praises Kent State (Abrams) as “not only the strongest work of graphic literature released so far this year, but one of the masterpieces of the medium, combining confident storytelling and rich factual detail into a work of devastating emotional impact.” Read it here.

Former Virginia senator and assistant secretary of defense Jim Webb refers to author David Paul Kuhn as “an unacknowledged prophet” who “avoids polemics and judgment” and “leads the reader to understand the deeper questions in so many of today’s political debates.” Read it here.

Great to see Jill Lepore mention two CLM clients in her current New Yorker article. She writes that Derf Backderf’s Kent State (Abrams) is “deeply researched and gut-wrenching” and calls David Paul Kuhn’s The Hardhat Riot (Oxford) “riveting.” Read it here.

Great to see Adam Gopnick’s wonderful New Yorker profile of legendary cartoonist Roz Chast, who has a “near-full run” of the works of Derf Backderf and buys My Friend Dahmer for friends. Read it here.

From Publishers Marketplace: Playwright and Yale School of Drama M.F.A William di Canzio's Alec, pitched as a reimagining and continuation of E.M. Forster's classic novel Maurice, told from gamekeeper Alec Scudder's perspective, to Jonathan Galassi at Farrar, Straus, in a pre-empt, for publication in winter 2021, by Matthew Carnicelli at Carnicelli Literary Management (world).