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LA Times

Can politics, fiction and podcasting mesh? Lydia Kiesling and Crooked Media give it a try

July 26, 2023

Lydia Kiesling teamed up with Crooked Media’s publishing division for her politically infused second novel, “Mobility.”

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New York Times

A Language-Learning Institute With a Disturbing Secret

July 10, 2023

In her debut novel, “The Centre,” Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi explores class anxiety, identity, appropriation and more through a sinister language school.

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Good Morning America

Sarah Jessica Parker Joins Good Morning America to Talk About New Imprint

June 8, 2023

Sarah Jessica Parker joins author Elysha Chang to talk about new book

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Vanity Fair

Sarah Jessica Parker Launches Her New Literary Imprint

June 6, 2023

The And Just Like That… star and debut author Elysha Chang talk A Quitter’s Paradise, sneaking in books between takes, and favorite recent reads.

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Ebony

John Legend’s First Title From His New Publishing Company Explores Themes of Love

April 26, 2023

John Legend is committed to amplifying Black voices on stage, on screen and now, on the page. Working with his longtime business partner, award-winning producer Mike Jackson, the duo has launched Get Lifted Books, the new publishing arm of their media company Gift Lifted Film Co.

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San Francisco Chronicle

This time-traveling YA novel delights in 1990s nostalgia, with appeal beyond Gen Z

April 7, 2023

I knew going into “Throwback” that the book would make me laugh out loud. But I was pleasantly surprised to find myself weeping by the book’s close, so moved by Goo’s story of hard-won tenderness and joy between unforgettable mothers and daughters.

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Los Angeles Times

How a Mexican-born debut novelist created a beautiful monster

March 9, 2023

At once heartbreaking and unapologetically strange, Monstrilio is a cross-cultural, syncretic, folksy, razor-sharp narrative about the horrors of grief and the eternal debate over nature versus nurture.

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News

Can politics, fiction and podcasting mesh? Lydia Kiesling and Crooked Media give it a try

Sarah Jessica Parker Launches Her New Literary Imprint

John Legend’s First Title From His New Publishing Company Explores Themes of Love