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Patrick O'Donnell

Patrick O’Donnell is a professor of British and American literature at Michigan State University. He is the author of John Hawkes, Echo Chambers: Figuring Voice in Modern Narrative, and Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia in Contemporary U.S. Narrative. Professor O’Donnell has also written the introduction and notes for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise and Jazz Age Stories.

Celebrating 100 years of James Baldwin

In celebration of James Baldwin, the literary legend and civil rights champion, and the centennial of his birth, we are sharing a collection of his work.   James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collections Notes

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The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

The New York Times recently published their list “100 Best Books of the 21st Century.” We are pleased to announce that there are 49 titles published from Penguin Random House and its distribution clients included in this list. Browse our collection of Penguin Random House titles here. Browse the full list from The New York

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