The film adaptation of Alicia Erian’s Towelhead, written and directed by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under, American Beauty) and starring Maria Bello, Toni Collette, Summer Bishel and Aaron Eckhart will be distributed by Warner Independent and will be released in select theaters on September 12, 2008. Official Towelhead website: www.towelhead-themovie.com.

Now back in print with a new publisher on the occasion of the Towelhead movie release, Alicia Erian’s classic short story collection The Brutal Language of Love.

David Bajo’s debut novel The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri was recently published to critical acclaim. Here’s a great Los Angeles Times review.

Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father has been awarded the 2008 PULITZER PRIZE in the biography category.

A film adaptation of Steve McVicker’s I Love You Phillip Morris starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor is now in production in New Orleans and Miami.

Gossip of the Starlings by Nina de Gramont is a June Booksense pick.

Identical Strangers by Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein just won the Multiple Sclerosis Society’s 2007 Books For a Better Life Award in the psychology category.

Karl Iagnemma’s first novel The Expeditions was recently published to critical acclaim. Here’s a great Los Angeles Times review.

Read a wonderful review Cathy Day’s memoir Comeback Season, just published, in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Comeback Season has been nominated for the 2008 Great Lakes Book Award.

I’m a Lebowski, You’re a Lebowski: Life, the Big Lebowski and What-Have-You is a Los Angeles Times bestseller and in its fifth printing.

The film adaptation of Mitch Cullin’s Tideland, directed by Terry Gilliam, now available on DVD.

Keith Donohue’s The Stolen Child is a national bestseller and has sold in twenty-five countries, with film rights optioned by Amazon.com.

Peter Steinberg picked as one of the “Twenty-one Agents You Should Know” by the Jan/Feb 2008 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.