A continuing series that highlights books recently acquired by publishing houses for future release. Each post features a book we’re looking forward to, and a book we’re . . . not.

The Cherry:

Bill Goldstein’s The World Broke in Two, a literary history of the year 1922 in the intertwined lives of Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and T.S. Eliot.

The Pit:

Clea Simon’s Dogs Don’t Lie, first in a new “pet noir” series featuring a bad-girl animal psychic and her sidekick, a crotchety tabby.