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 CNN piece on Mitt Romney’s taxes has also created a stir.

Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother? has earned a star from Kirkus Reviews, as ”A psychologically complex, ambitious, illuminating successor to the author’s graphic-memoir masterpiece.” The book is creating buzz well before publication, starting with the 100,000-copy initial print run.

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.

Nate Silver explains what’s really happening in the Republican primaries nearly every day in the New York Times. Silver’s New York Times Magazine cover story, “Is Obama Toast?” is roiling all of the campaigns.

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

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 will talk about The Science of Kissing on the CBS Early Show. She has also been selected been selected as a 2012 Marshall Memorial Fellow.

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

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 and the winner of the Biographer’s Club Best First Biography Prize for 2010.

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 writes about Miro in Majorca as the lead article in the 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.

Chris Mooney inaugurates his column for The Huffington Post with “Why Republicans Deny Science.”

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’s Waiting is a finalist for the Books for Better Life Award in the spiritual category. Read her article in the Washington Post, and listen to her on NPR’s “Interfaith Voices.”

Stephanie Coontz looks at America’s fraught relationship with “Mom” for the New York Times. She talked with Stephen Colbert about A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s on The Colbert Report. The book has been reviewed in The Sunday New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker. She wrote  “Why Remarry” for The New York Times and “Why Mad Men is TV’s Most Feminist Show” for The Washington Post.  She was a featured speaker at the PopTech Conference.

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.

Erin Bried landed a two-book deal with Hyperion. Her previous books How to Sew a Button and How to Build a Fire were featured on The Today Show, NPR’s Weekend Edition, WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show and Fox & Friends among many others.

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.

Dalton Conley has been named a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.

Howard Megdal explains CitiField in the New York Times.

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

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