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Awards & News

The PEN/Faulkner Award longlist arrives and includes novels by James McBride, Alice McDermott, and Jamel Brinkley.

The latest AAP Stat Shot report shows “US Market Was Up 0.6 Percent in November, YTD.” Publishing Perspectives has details.

WNBA player Brittney Griner’s memoir, Coming Home, will be published May 7 by Knopf, GMA announced yesterday. People also has coverage.

Author Saul Bellow is honored with the 34th new stamp in the U.S. Postal Service’s Literary Arts series. LitHub has coverage.

Reviews

NYT reviews Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright (New Directions): “The layering of time and the riot of language are Wright’s great themes and raw materials, and in Praiseworthy—the most ambitious and accomplished Australian novel of this century—they twist and shimmer, doomed forever to their violent pas de deux”; and A Film in Which I Play Everyone: Poems by Mary Jo Bang (Graywolf): “These poems are full of pleasure, color, sound and light — but also torment, as if the speaker had to watch, that is, relive, these scenes, involuntarily and indefinitely.”

Washington Post reviews Termush by Sven Holm, tr. by Sylvia Clayton (FSG Originals; LJ starred review: “The enduring relevance of Termush will depress many readers, but the clarity of its prose and the intensity of its vision inspire”; Leaving by Roxana Robinson (Norton): “Roxana Robinson’s stunning new novel, Leaving, cost me some sleep, and continues to reverberate. A study of the complex joy and pain of late-life love, it is a tour de force and arguably her finest work yet”; and Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood by Ed Zwick (Gallery): “This name-dropping but also rewardingly name-naming look back from the director of 1989’s Glory and other consequential films is a surprisingly strong choice.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for The Women by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s), the top holds title of the week.

BookRiot shares new romance books for February.

Novelist Stephen Buoro leads a literary tour through Lagos, at NYT.

Margot Livesey, The Road from Belhaven (Knopf), answers ten questions at Poets&Writers.

Tortured poets respond to Taylor Swift’s album announcement, in NYT. B&N has a list of song-to-book pairings for Taylor Swift’s Midnights. 

LA Times explores the origins of the collaborative novel Fourteen Days by the Authors Guild. 

NPR has an interview with Bianca Bosker about the new book, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How To See (Viking).

People and Entertainment Weekly reveal details from filmmaker Ed Zwick’s new memoir, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood (Gallery), about working with Brad Pitt on the film Legends of the Fall. 

HGTV star Tarek El Moussa discusses his new memoir, Flip Your Life: How To Find Opportunity in Distress—in Real Estate, Business, and Life (Hachette Go), with FoxNews. People shares details from El Moussa’s book. 

Reactor shares “Five SFF Works That Explore the (Sometimes Perilous) Power of Libraries.”

Publishing Perspectives has a remembrance for Asoke Ghosh, sometimes called “the father of Indian publishing.”

Transgender icon and author Cecilia Gentili has died at the age of 52. Playbill has an obituary.

Authors on Air

Mark Daley talks with NPR’s Fresh Air about his new book, Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family (Atria). 

A’ja Wilson, Dear Black Girls: How To Be True to You (Flatiron), will visit The View tomorrow.

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