Author Archives: dshannon

December 22, 2025

The Antidote Longlisted for Two Awards

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.

November 12, 2025

TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

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)

January 28, 2025

The latest from Ian McGuire, author of the highly acclaimed THE NORTH WATER (named one of the 10 best books of the year by The New York Times and long-listed for the Man Booker Prize). WHITE RIVER CROSSING opens in 1766 at Fort Prince of Wales, Canada, built by the infamous Hudson Bay Company. In charge is Moses Norton, as the company deals with settlers and indigenous peoples who bring pelts, tobacco and other valuable items to trade. One of these peddlers meets privately with Norton and presents a lump of gold that he says comes from Indian territory further north near Churchill, which is known as the polar bear capital. A secret expedition is planned to this sub-arctic region which is inhabited by a native tribe thought to be unfriendly. A guide who speaks native language is enlisted. WHITE RIVER CROSSING captures the danger of operating in this wild time of history and in this frighteningly inhospitable landscape. Once again, McGuire masterfully conjures a breathtaking story of what the promise of great riches leads men to do and where treachery and murder are merely the prices to be paid.

September 27, 2024

Lydia Davis delivers Yale’s Windham-Campbell Lecture

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.