Alison Bechdel is profiled in The New Yorker, and Time magazine. She has been named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2012 and is also the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Publishing Triangle. Her new book, Are You My Mother?, has earned a rave review in The New York Times Sunday Book Review and starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, and Publisher’s Weekly. Her previous book, Fun Home, is now on the New York Times paperback bestseller list.

Dalton Conley is profiled in The Chronicle of Higher Education for his volunteer work as Dean of Arts and Sciences for the pioneering tuition-free University of the People.

Kate Stone Lombardi talks about The Mama’s Boy Myth on NPR’s All Things Considered. Her piece on Time.com was an editor’s pick, and the New York Times parenting blog featured the book.

Kayla Williams talks about women in the military and their place on the frontlines for NPR’s On Point.

Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson’s Winner-Take-All Politics is on the NY Times paperback bestseller list. They have appeared with Bill Moyers in the first three episodes of his new PBS show, “Moyers & Company”. He calls the book “the most important I’ve read” since ending the old show, and considers the two professors “the Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson of political science.” Their Washington Post piece on Mitt Romney has created a stir.

Vali Nasr talks about Iran on PBS NewsHour.

Jonah Keri’s The Extra 2% has been named one of the top ten baseball books of 2011 by Baseball America. His latest Grantland piece is “The Best Hitter You’ve Never Heard Of.”

Nate Silver explains what’s really happening in the Republican primaries nearly every day in the New York Times. Silver’s most recent New York Times Magazine piece, “Why Obama Will Embrace the 99 Percent,” explains the President’s new re-election strategy.

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich writes about her boyfriend, her python, and her sexual identity for the Modern Love column in the New York Times.

Sheril Kirshenbaum, the author of The Science of Kissing, talks about kissing in a new CNN video. She has just been appointed the Director of the University of Texas’s Project on Energy Communication, and also been selected been selected as a 2012 Marshall Memorial Fellow.

Keith Meldahl’s Hard Road West, a geological history of the westward journey, was described by The Atlantic’s literary and national editor Benjamin Schwartz as “one of the best books I’ve read in the past five years.”

Sharon McGrayne’s book on Bayes’ Rule, The Theory That Would Not Die, was lauded by Alan Krueger, the new chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, in an interview in the New York Times.

Wendy Moffat, author of A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster was a runner up for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld award for Biography.

Pamela Haag, author of Marriage Confidential, now has a twice-a-week column, “Marriage 3.0,” at the Big Think magazine, which was just rated by Time magazine as the #1 website source for news and information. Recent interviews and features on Marriage Confidential include the Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, and SexyFeminist.com. Haag also has original essays in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and for the Huffington Post‘s inaugural “Weddings” section. Marriage Confidential was  voted one of the Top 100 Feminist Non-Fiction Books by Ms. magazine.

Sarah Wildman’s love of Minorca is obvious in the cover story of the New York Times travel section.

Yascha Mounk writes about Walter Laqueur’s dark vision of Europe and whether it’s right in the Wall Street Journal.

Erin Bried appeared on Fox & Friends to discuss her latest book, How to Rock Your Baby: And Other Timeless Tips for Modern Moms. The book is featured in American Baby magazine, CNN.com, USA Today, and reviewed inThe Boston Globe, The Oregonian, and SELF magazine, who calls it, “The Instruction Manual we’ve all been waiting for.”

Laney and Gay Salisbury’s The Cruelest Miles is much discussed in “Spirit of a Racer in a Dog’s Blood,” one of the most heavily emailed articles in the New York Times.

Chris Mooney discusses The Republican Brain and the reasons our political discourse has deteriorated on MSNBC’s NOW with Alex Wagner.

Andrew Revkin of the Times praises “the extraordinary books of Brian Fagan” in his Dot Earth blog post on teaching climate change.

Josh Kosman talks about the role of private equity in the US economy on PBS NewsHour.

Marya Hornbacher is a PEN judge for their award in creative nonfiction. Two of her essays are finalists for the Iowa Review prize in creative nonfiction.

Stephanie Coontz talked with Stephen Colbert about A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s on The Colbert Report. Her newest piece for the New York Times, “The M.R.S. and the Ph.D.,” appeared on the front page of the Sunday Review.

Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo’s The Statues that Walked has won the Society for American Archaeology Book Award for 2012.

Sheila McClear’s memoir, The Last of the Live Nude Girls, is featured in the New York Observer and New York Post, a staff pick on The Paris Review, and earns raves from The New York Journal of Books and XOJane. She is #10 on The New York Observer’s list of 50 Media Power Bachelorettes. Watch her book trailer, here.

Carlo Rotella writes on James Schamus in The New York Times Magazine.

Martha Nussbaum writes in The New York Times on the value of teaching the humanities in a democracy.

Susan Kaiser Greenland writes on “Why the Controversy over High Stakes Testing and Teacher Evals Matters” in The Huffington Post.

George Musser writes on the paradox of time for Scientific American.

Fred Guterl writes on “The Dark Hunter” in Discover Magazine.

Ed Dante has received a 2010 National Award for Education for his article “The Shadow Scholar” in The Chronicle of Higher Education, which went viral when it was published.

Benjamin Carp is interviewed in Time magazine on the Boston Tea Party. His book, Defiance of the Patriots has also been featured in The New York Times and The New Yorker.

Howard Megdal explains the Mets’ financial situation in an excerpt from his e-book, Wilpon’s Folly, for Baseball Prospectus.

Clyde Prestowitz’s The Betrayal of American Prosperity is discussed in The New Yorker.

Robert Perkinson, author of Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire, has won the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith award for Nonfiction.

Galley Cat has listed our own Holly Bemiss as one of the 100 best agents on Twitter.