Peck & Peck: A Novel by Bonnie Garmus #1# New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry. Scribner, October 13, 2026. A best book of the fall for Oprah Daily, TIME, and the New York Post. Garmus’s Peck & Peck is not only the most prestigious poetry quarterly in the world. It is 1980s New York, a secret war between the famous Peck brothers, and the place where a recent graduate with a skill no one wants—an “ear” for poetry—is hired to find originality, reward creativity, and burn the rest. Philosophers judge; editors choose. The novel’s gift is that it can do both at once: send Batter Gray into the literary fast lane, and show what happens when the mission statement meets the private affairs of the people who run it. The book gives the personal Garmus—return after the global sensation of Lessons in Chemistry—and the public one: crime in the streets, Sallie Mae on the phone, T-shirts at the Gap, and a journal so secretive and dysfunctional it becomes the whole life. Drawn from the author who made chemistry funny and now makes poetry dangerous. Buy links - Amazon (hardcover): - Amazon (Kindle ebook): - Author site: - Publisher: About the author Bonnie Garmus is the author of Lessons in Chemistry, a #1# New York Times bestseller translated into more than forty languages, honored with sixteen international literary awards, and adapted as an Apple TV+ limited series. Peck & Peck is her second novel. She lives near London. X: @BonnieGarmus