With so many great books being published every month, some literary titles worth exploring can get lost in the mix. Page One offers the first lines of a dozen recently released books, including Entwined: Dispatches From the Intersection of Species by Bridget A. Lyons and An Oral History of Atlantis by Ed Park.
“The darkness was purple and fidgety, opaque, buzzing and speckled, blind and thick, at once gleaming and fathomless.” I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness (Graywolf Press, June 2025) by Irene Solà, translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem. Fourth book, third novel. Agent: Marina Penalva Halpin. Editor: Ethan Nosowsky. Publicist: Caelan Ernest Nardone.
“I spend a lot of time sitting up on my surfboard, watching the surface of the Monterey Bay for the darkened wave faces that make my heart beat faster.” Entwined: Dispatches From the Intersection of Species (Texas A&M Press, July 2025) by Bridget A. Lyons. First book, essay collection. Agent: None. Editor: Marguerite Avery. Publicist: Lorna Garano.
“i did not know i was drowning” Florida Water (Haymarket Books, June 2025) by aja monet. Second book, poetry collection. Agents: Jesseca Salky and Charlotte Sheedy. Editors: Mahogany L. Browne and Maya Marshall. Publicists: Trevor Shelley de Brauw and Jim Plank.
“Lifeguards can’t save themselves / from their own wasting.” Last Day of My Face (University of Iowa Press, June 2025) by James Shea. Third book, poetry collection. Agent: None. Editor: James McCoy. Publicist: Allison Means.
“When the gulls started fighting, it was over the trash snarled in the harbor water—paper coffee cups and oil-slicked twigs tangled among Sprite bottles.” Wedding of the Foxes (Milkweed Editions, July 2025) by Katherine Larson. Second book, first essay collection. Agent: None. Editor: Daniel Slager. Publicist: Morgan LaRocca.
“The city was the color of oxidized blood.” Blowfish (Astra House, July 2025) by Kyung-Ran Jo, translated from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim. Ninth book, fourth novel.
Agent: Barbara J. Zitwer. Editor: Tara Sharma. Publicist: Alexis Nowicki.
“When I call my parents, my mom tells me my dad is busy teaching a class on the internet.” An Oral History of Atlantis (Random House, July 2025) by Ed Park. Third book, first story collection. Agent: PJ Mark. Editor: Andy Ward. Publicist: Marni Folkman.
“I learned to clean the desk before and after laying down / the drafting paper to preserve the drafting paper’s / whiteness.” Freeland (Alice James Books, June 2025) by Leigh Sugar. First book, poetry collection. Agent: Ayla Zuraw-Friedland. Editor: Carey Salerno. Publicist: Genevieve Hartman.
“The month is May.” I’ll Tell You When I’m Home (Avid Reader Press, June 2025) by Hala Alyan. Eighth book, first memoir. Agent: Meredith Kaffel Simonoff. Editor: Lauren Wein. Publicist: Alexandra Primiani.
“a cold spring—an epiphany / bludgeoned—” End of Empire (Penguin Books, July 2025) by Marissa Davis. First book, poetry collection. Agent: None. Editor: Allie Merola. Publicist: Julia Falkner.
“Lea changed the sheets when she got up.” Long Distance (Bloomsbury, July 2025) by Ayşegül Savaş. Fourth book, first story collection. Agent: Sarah Bowlin. Editor: Callie Garnett. Publicist: Amanda Dissinger.
“It is raining.” The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex (Knopf, June 2025) by Melissa Febos. Fifth book, fourth memoir. Agent: Ethan Bassoff. Editor: Vanessa Haughton. Publicist: Jordan Rodman.
