Karen Russell’s THE ANTIDOTE was longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Both awards will announce the winning titles in March 2026.

Three of Denise Shannon Literary Agency’s books appear on TIME Magazine’s list of Must-Read Books of 2025:

THE ANTIDOTE by Karen Russell (Knopf)

PAN by Michael Clune (Penguin Press)

VERA, OR FAITH by Gary Shteyngart (Random House)

Karen Russell’s dusbowl epic THE ANTIDOTE was announced today as a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award for fiction.

Karen Russell’s novel THE ANTIDOTE has been shortlisted for the 2026 award for fiction.

Karen Russell’s Dust Bowl Epic THE ANTIDOTE was longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction.

Michael Clune’s novel PAN has been longlisted for the 2025 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

Jess Row’s novel THE NEW EARTH wins the 2025 Prix Transfuge de la rentré litteraire in France for Best American Novel.

Man-Booker International Prize winner and National Book Award Finalist Lydia Davis was selected to give the prestigious keynote Windham-Campbell Lecture at Yale University in September 2024. Yale University Press will publish a book expanding on this lecture. The books in this series have quickly become beloved works on craft from some of the most inventive and thoughtful writers of our time, including Patti Smith, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Eileen Myles, Samuel Delany, and Joy Harjo.

Bard College awarded the 2024 Mary McCarthy award to Karen Russell on May 24th.

The New York times listed “The Night Falls”, written by Karen Russell, as one of the best dance performances of 2023. The production “benefited from the participation of a master storyteller: the novelist Karen Russell.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/06/arts/dance/best-dance-2023.html