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Awards & News

V.V. Ganeshananthan wins the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for Brotherless Night (Random). NPR, Publishers Weekly, and CBC have coverage. 

The British Book Awards are announced. R.F. Kuang’s Yellowface (Morrow) wins Fiction Book of the Year. BBC has coverage, as does Publishing Perspectives.

The Indigenous Voices Award finalists are announced. CBC has coverage.

South Arts announces its Inaugural Literary Arts Fellows.

Authors Casey McQuiston and Danny Lore join the list of presenters for the 2024 Lammy Awards, which will be held on June 11.

Ken Follett moves to Hachette for his next release, which will publish in 2025, Publishing Perspectives reports. PW also has coverage.

Reviews

NYT reviews The Race to the Future: 8,000 Miles to Paris—The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century by Kassia St. Clair (Liveright): “Kassia St. Clair’s The Race to the Future is a vivid re-creation of the escapade, but the author also takes pains to demonstrate how what happened then determined the way we live now—including why the orchards of my hometown are remembered now only as street signs”; Another Word for Love: A Memoir by Carvell Wallace (MCD): “The writer and podcaster Carvell Wallace’s new memoir, Another Word for Love, arrives with great beauty, teeth and vulnerability”; Chasing Hope: A Reporter’s Life by Nicholas D. Kristof (Knopf): “Chasing Hope will satisfy Kristof superfans eager to know more about every era of his life—there are back-to-back chapters titled ‘I Become an Editor’ and ‘I Begin My Column’—but the book suffers for its insistence on being completist”; Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History by Nellie Bowles (Thesis): “Activists! Attention-grabbing grifters, making everything worse by thinking the world could be better. What’s to be done but slay them with mockery? This is the general project of Nellie Bowles’s Morning After the Revolution, a slim collection of polemical reportage that I suspect is meant to be courageous stuff, also funny”; and Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World by Caroline Alexander (Viking; LJ starred review): “Alexander adroitly explicates technical concepts — flight mechanics, de-icing, night vision—but is at her best rendering pilots’ fear.”

Washington Post reviews Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World by Eric Jay Dolin (Liveright): “It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that Dolin’s saga has as many twists and turns as a route through the mazy South Atlantic archipelago”; and Forces of Nature: A Memoir of Family, Loss, and Finding Home by Gina DeMillo Wagner (Running Wild): “Wagner is a talented stylist, limited only by an inability to explain the inexplicable—in this case, less her brother’s rare disease than her parents’ behavior.”

NPR reviews My First Book by Honor Levy (Penguin Pr.): “Readers won’t find meticulously plotted story arcs, fleshed-out characters, emotional epiphanies, or any other earmarks of conventional literary fiction. Most of Levy’s stories run fewer than 12 pages and feel like very long flash fiction, written in a voice dense with the chaotic patois of the internet.”

Briefly Noted

LitHub highlights 26 new books for the week. 

Parade suggests 25 new releases this week.

The Atlantic has a summer reading guide.

BookRiot shares “10 Best New Fantasy Books by Asians and Pacific Islanders.”

ElectricLit has “7 Books About Life in Japan Before Cellphones, Social Media and the Internet.”

Gizmodo previews “10 More Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy Books to Read Ahead of Their Upcoming Adaptations.”

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel will publish Freedom: Memories 1954–2021 (St. Martin's) on November 26, AP reports.

Cristina Rivera Garza discusses her Pulitzer Prize–winning book, Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice (Hogarth), and femicide in Mexico, with The Guardian.

Honor Levy discusses My First Book (Penguin Pr.) with Vanity Fair.

Vogue has an interview with Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk (Ecco: HarperCollins; LJ starred review).

Esquire shares an excerpt from Stephen King’s forthcoming book, You Like It Darker: Stories (Scribner; LJ starred review), which publishes next week.

Another lost story by Terry Pratchett has been found and will appear in the paperback edition of A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories, due out in October. The story will also be published online.

Authors on Air

Serj Tankian talks about his new book, Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts) (Hachette), with NPR’s Morning Edition.

Bill Maher speaks about courting controversy and his new book, What This Comedian Said Will Shock You (S. & S.), on CBS Sunday Morning.

Miranda July discusses her new book, All Fours (Riverhead), on B&N's Poured Over podcast.

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