The latest publications by two members of the New School MFA Writing Program have been singled out by the Los Angeles Times as exceptional books of 2008.

Benjamin Taylor's novel The Book of Getting Even was chosen as a Favorite Book of 2008 and Honor Moore'sThe Bishop's Daughter was selected as one of the top 100 books of 2008. The Los Angeles Times also acknowledged the latest collection of poems, All of It Singing, by Linda Gregg, who will be a guest author in The New School for General Studies Summer Writers' Colony in the 2009.

The New York Times recognized MFA faculty member Brenda Wineapple's book White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, naming it as one of the 100 notable books of 2008 in the nonfiction category. The Times also honored top books of 2008 by authors that will participate in upcoming readings at The New School in the spring of 2009 hosted by the Writing Program. The first, poet Mary Jo Bang, author of Elegy will be at The New School on February 5. Annette Gordon-Reed will read on March 23, and is the author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, which just won a National Book Award at the ceremony held at The New School on November 18.