{
  "id": 12340258,
  "title": "Barbara Kingsolver, Lydia Millet, Patricia Lockwood, and more: 20 new books out today!",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/barbara-kingsolver-lydia-millet-patricia-lockwood-and-more-20-new",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-06T08:37:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Literary Hub",
    "slug": "literary-hub",
    "url": "https://lithub.com/barbara-kingsolver-lydia-millet-patricia-lockwood-and-more-20-new-books-out-today/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "This week brings a bounty of fresh books from celebrated authors. Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel, Partita, is published by Harper. The story follows a passionate and life-changing love affair, set against the backdrop of humanity's enduring desire for art and beauty.\n\nLydia Millet’s double novel, Fair Ones, is out from W. W. Norton. Millet injects her tale with sharp and biting insights into themes like friendship, love, privilege, obsession, delusion, and truth.\n\nPoet Patricia Lockwood released Agate Head/Stone Soup with Penguin Books. Publishers Weekly raves about her vivid attention to the natural world and her exuberant imagination, describing it as rewarding.\n\nMichael Lewis’s latest, Blockers, offers an insider’s perspective on the early days of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. The book is published by W. W. Norton.\n\nImbolo Mbue’s Every Story is a Love Story, published by Random House, is another addition to this week’s list of fresh releases.",
  "summary": "How lucky are we? A week of new Barbara Kingsolver, Lydia Millet, Michael Lewis, Meghan O’Gieblyn, and so many more amazing authors. Pour through this list for the fresh selections that are released today: they’ll be flying off the shelves.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Literary Hub",
        "title": "Lydia Millet on Writing a Double Novel of Grief and Loss",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/lydia-millet-on-writing-a-double-novel-of-grief-and-loss",
        "published": "2026-10-06T09:09:27.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}