Atlantic Editions, a first-of-its-kind ebook imprint launched as a partnership between The Atlantic and the unbiased writer Zando, introduced in the present day three upcoming titles set to publish in April 2023 from Atlantic writers: On Grief, by Jennifer Senior; On Work, by Derek Thompson; and On No one Well-known, by Kaitlyn Tiffany and Lizzie Plaugic. All six present Atlantic Editions titles are accessible for preorder now.
On Grief might be Senior’s Pulitzer Prize–successful story, initially printed as “Twenty Years Gone” in The Atlantic’s September 2021 difficulty, about one household’s seek for which means after the lack of their son on September 11, 2001. The Pulitzer committee known as Senior’s piece an “unflinching portrait of a household’s reckoning with loss within the 20 years since 9/11, masterfully braiding the writer’s private connection to the story with delicate reporting that reveals the lengthy attain of grief.”
Tiffany and Plaugic’s On No one Well-known is a literary assortment drawn from work the pair started independently, then developed into an Atlantic publication. The ebook invitations readers to comply with the duo as they discover small events, bizarre dinners, and aimless evenings in New York Metropolis of their attribute irreverent and hilarious prose.
Thompson’s On Work explores the way forward for work, know-how, and tradition at an inflection level within the historical past of labor as we face the rise of automation and AI, the “Nice Resignation,” and a labor-movement resurgence. Thompson supplies influential protection of those topics by his Work in Progress publication, and a particular reporting sequence known as “Progress.”
“So many readers come to The Atlantic as a result of they love Jennifer, Kaitlyn, Lizzie, and Derek,” mentioned Adrienne LaFrance, govt editor of The Atlantic. “I can’t look forward to them—and for all of us—to expertise their extraordinary writing, unique concepts, wit, and knowledge in ebook type.”
The books below the Atlantic Editions imprint characteristic long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, every dedicated to a single subject, and incorporate modern articles and basic storytelling from the journal’s wealthy archive. The imprint’s first books––introduced in Might 2022 and publishing January 10, 2023––are On Misdirection, by Megan Garber; On Womanhood, by Sophie Gilbert (a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism); and On BTS, by Lenika Cruz. They are going to provide their definitive writing on, respectively, our fractured consideration, feminism, and the cultural affect of the world’s largest band.
By means of their partnership, Zando and The Atlantic search to convey these tales to a wider viewers by providing the books at an reasonably priced value and making them accessible as particular person, definitive works.
