Celebrating Women's History Month
Plus a some exciting FOREST EUPHORIA news!
Forest Euphoria is a Science + Literature National Book Foundation Selected Title
The team at Spiegel & Grau celebrated with Forest Euphoria author Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian at the Science + Literature National Book Foundation Ceremony and Reception. Congrats to the poetry and fiction recipients, Kimberly Blaeser (Ancient Light) and Anna North (Bog Queen)!
We are proud of our fantastic authors!
We’re thrilled to publish leading voices building change in meaningful ways. Read some of our authors’ amazing achievements below.
Winter Institute 2026 was a success!
We had such a blast at Winter Institute in Pittsburgh this year, celebrating an exciting 2026 with our indie bookseller friends. We held a fifth-anniversary party at the Penn Society, introducing Kathryn Stockett (Calamity Club, May 5) and David Baerwald (The Fire Agent, June 4) to their early hand-selling fans! We also gave our guests our S&G fifth-year anniversary tote bags–and don’t worry, we’ll be giving some away in our newsletter coming soon!
Our wonderful Design Intern, Joyce Pei (Pratt Institute) shared some of her favorite books with us, and a fact about the origins of the word “robot” that was entirely new to us!
What line of poetry do you go back to repeatedly? “People do not pass away. / They die / and then they stay.” Naomi Shihab Nye, Voices in the Air
What’s the last thing you read that made the hair on the back of your neck stand up? “Online giants tend to view humans as audiovisual animals–a pair of eyes and a pair of ears connected to ten fingers, a screen and a credit card.” Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Favorite movie of all time? Flow (2024)
The last exhibit you loved? An Atlas of Es Devlin (2024)
If you had to make your own Snapple cap, what random fact would you choose? The word ‘robot’ comes from the Czech word robota, meaning forced labor.
Which month would you eliminate and why? None! I need all 12 for special holidays and festivals.
The Calamity Club is a most anticipated book of 2026
New York Times Books * Oprah Daily Best Books of Spring 2026 * Goodreads * Minnesota Star Tribune * Garden & Gun * Woman’s World * Town & Country * AARP Spring Books Preview * Country Living *
“So immersive, exciting, and downright fabulous, you never want it to end.”
—Oprah Daily
“Stockett’s vibrant follow-up to her bestselling 2009 novel, The Help, traces the intersecting lives of an exasperated older sister, a precocious orphan, and an enterprising woman in 1933 Mississippi…. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, this offers a memorable view into the impossible choices faced by women in the Great Depression.”
–Publishers Weekly