Snapshots of Select Press Shop Campaigns
Haley Cohen Gilliland’s debut book, published by SImon &Schuster, tells the true story of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, the grandmothers who fought to find their stolen grandchildren during Argentina's Dirty War. It became one of the best reviewed titles of 2025 and earned a spot on New York Times Notable Books list, the Washington Post’s 5 best nonfiction, and it was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist!
Some top hits:
New York Times review: “Searching for Grandchildren Stolen During Argentina’s Dirty War”
NPR’s All Things Considered: “Argentina's stolen children grapple with finding their place in history”
MS NOW’s Morning Joe: “They refused to be silent’: How Argentina’s grandmothers uncovered a stolen generation”
NPR review: “Hundreds of children disappeared in Argentina. Their grandmothers united to find them”
The Atlantic review: “Between ‘the Drive to Forget and the Obligation to Remember”
University of Texas law professor Mechele Dickerson’s THE MIDDLE CLASS NEW DEAL (University of California Press) makes a simple yet damning argument: the decline of the American middle class isn't inevitable — it's a choice. The GI Bill created mass upward mobility after WWII, and the tools exist to do it again. On homeownership, education, and more, Dickerson shows exactly what could be done. Washington has simply chosen not to do it.
Some top hits:
The Daily Show: Interview with Jon Stewart
CNN Amanpour & Company: Interview with Walerr Isaacson
The Chuck Toddcast: Does America Need A Middle Class New Deal?
Fast Politics: Molly Jong-Fast talks to Mechele Dickerson
The Chauncey DeVega Show: The American Middle Class is Hanging on by a Thread
Financial Times’ The Economy Show: How Bad is America’s Affordability Crisis? With Mechele Dickerson
Published by Stranger Comics, DEFIANT tells an amazing true story of Robert Smalls, a slave during the Civil War who stole a Confederate ship in Charleston Harbor and sailed it to freedom. The graphic book, the first is a series, captured readers’ nd the media’s atttention. Some top hits:
CNN: “Defiant Tells Story of Real-Life Superhero Robert Smalls"
Publishers Weekly: “Freedom Fighting and History Writing: PW Talks with Rob Edwards”
Christian Science Monitor: “Robert Smalls’ Civil War bravery jumps off the page. A new comic captures his legacy”
The Root: “Must-Read Juneteenth Books for the Entire Family”
Military.com: “New Graphic Novel Spotlights Robert Smalls, Who Escaped Slavery on a Stolen Confederate Ship'
Chauncey DeVega Show: “Screenwriter Rob Edwards Reflects on His Life Journey From "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" to "Captain America: Brave New World"
At the turn of the 20th century as Jews fled Europe by the tens of thousands, many of them landed in Galveston, Texas. Rachel Cockerell’s book MELTING POINT, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, examines that forgotten piece of history. It was named a New York Times Notable Book of the year and one of the 5 best nonfiction titles of the year by the Washington Post. Some top hits:
Morning Joe: “How Galveston, Texas Became a Homeland for Jewish Immigrants”
New York Review of Books: “Zionism Without Zion”
New York Times: “A Jewish Promised Land in… Texas? Rachel Cockerell Had to Know More”
New Yorker: “When Jews Sought the Promised Land in Texas”
Washington Post Review: “Melting Pot Revisits the Push to Move Europe’s Jews to Texas”
Times of Israel: “Lone Star of David: How a short-lived plan saw persecuted European Jews reroot in Texas”
Lit Hub First Draft Podcast: “Rachel Cockerell on the Voices Speaking for Themselves”
Harvard Professor Eram Alam’s book, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, reveals how many Americans rely on foreign-born doctors to keep them healthy—and, as a result, how the ongoing assault on immigration and immigrants impacts the entire health system.
Some top hits:
The Guardian: “Trump’s H-1B visa fee is a death sentence for US healthcare”
Reuters’ Context: “Q&A: Behind the United States' conflicting ties with immigrant doctors”
Boston Globe: “Trump’s $100,000 visa fee closes off vital pipeline of immigrant physicians who care for America’s most vulnerable and print issue!”
NPR’s Morning Edition: “New policies make U.S. less appealing to foreign-born physicians”
NPR Shots - Health News: “Nobody wants to come': What if the U.S. can no longer attract immigrant physicians?”
Axios: "Rural care could see impact from tighter visa rules”
CBS News: “Trump administration's new $100,000 H1-B visa fees could leave rural health care as collateral damage”
We worked with Casey Michel, director of the Combating Kleptocracy Program at the Human Rights Foundation, on his book from St. Martin’s Press. It weaves together an absolutely jaw-dropping and infuriating story about past and current foreign lobbying in the US and the complicity of white-collar professionals at public relations firms, think tanks, and top law firms.
Some top hits:
NPR’s Fresh Air: “How American Lobbyists Threaten Democracy”
MSNBC’s Morning Joe: “HRF’s Casey Michel Discusses "Foreign Agents" on MSNBC’s "Morning Joe"
The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali: “How Are American Foreign Agents Undermining Our Democracy?”
Factually! With Adam Conover: “The U.S. Politicians Selling Out to Foreign Dictators“
Starred Reviews in Publisher’s Weekly and Kirkus Reviews
⭐ Casey is the first Press Shop author to be officially sanctioned by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Bella DePaulo shows the benefits and beauty in single life and pushes back against the societal notion that being uncoupled is synonymous with unhappiness. The feedback on this one was overwhelming.
Here’s the media page on Bella DePaulo’s website. We love that it goes on and on and on!
Some top hits:
New York Times: “Over 60, Single and Never Happier”
AARP: “21 of Winter’s Top New Books”
Huffington Post: “I’m 70 and I’ve Lived Alone My Entire Adult Life. Here’s What Everyone Gets Wrong about Single People (picked up by MSN, Yahoo, and many other online outlets)”
TIME Magazine: “An Ode to Single Life”
SINGLE AT HEART was named a Foreword INDIES finalist soon after publication.
In this follow up to her 2017 bestselling book of photographs STRONG IS THE NEW PRETTY, author-photographer Kate T. Parker focuses her lens on women and girls being strong, yes, but also being loud and refusing to be pushed aside. These 150 stunning portraits honor the mothers, daughters, sisters, nurses, coaches, and classmates from all over the country who find, use, and amplify their voices for themselves and the causes they’re passionate about.
Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live w/ Andy Cohen
TODAY Online: “Why I was jealous of my daughter in this viral photo”
CNN.com: “The kids really are alright, photographer finds”
WGN Midday: “Midday Fix: Strong Is the New Pretty”
We worked with Rabbi Danya Rutttenberg on her parenting book NURTURE THE WOW in 2016, and came back to work on this book from Beacon Press. It offers a crucial new perspective on navigating conflict, applying an ancient framework to the country’s most vexing contemporary problems—from systemic racism and the legacy of enslavement, to sexual abuse and the #MeToo movement—as well as issues in our personal lives and relatinships.
Good Morning America: Faith Friday: Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
We Can Do Hard Things W/ Glennon Doyle: How to Make Wrongs Right with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
KERA Think: Fixing Our Mistakes Doesn’t Start With Sorry
Vox Conversations: How do we fix the harm we cause?
The Good Life Project: How to Make Amends when We Cause Harm (and We All Will)
