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Awards & News

The Audio Publishers Association announced the finalists for the Audie Awards.

Good Material by Dolly Alderton (Knopf) is the February Read with Jenna pick.

Jen Sookfong Lee is named jury chair for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, CBC reports. 

NYT recommends the five best books about AI. 

B&N suggests books for Black History Month.

Remembering Chita Rivera

Broadway legend Chita Rivera, author of Chita: A Memoir (HarperOne), has died at the age of 91. Obituaries have appeared in NYT, LA Times, NPR, Variety, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, PBS Canvas, and The Guardian.

NYT also shares “Chita Rivera: A Life in Photos”; LA Times offers an appreciation; and Playbill reflects on “Losing a Legend.”

Reviews

Washington Post reviews Cold Victory by Karl Marlantes (Grove): “Cold Victory is a keen and sensitive group portrait that sees Americans as no better or worse than Russians or Finns or anyone else. Human nature is a land without borders”; and Held by Anne Michaels (Knopf): “If you require a neat, linear plot, beware. Held manipulates history and narrative with the same promiscuous verve that Lidia Yuknavitch demonstrated in her spectacular 2022 novel, Thrust. But even as these various storylines grow more elliptical, they become more evocative, the cumulative effect of Michaels turning profound issues over in her hands.”

NPR reviews Your Utopia: Stories by Bora Chung, tr. by Anton Hur (Algonquin): “If the expertly crafted stories in her prior collection revolved around what M.R. James called ‘the malice of inanimate objects,’ the stories in her new collection are more tightly focused on surveillance and the perils of advanced technology.”

The Rumpus reviews Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka (Doubleday): “What Filterworld does wonderfully is deconstruct our current scroll culture with precision to make it less appealing.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury), the top holds title of the week.

LJ has new prepub alerts.

In LA Times, Kiley Reid discusses her new book, Come and Get It (Putnam), which she says is “about buying things and how we spend our money.” 

Dolly Alderton talks about her new book, Good Material (Knopf), with Shondaland, and Emily Austin discusses her new novel, Interesting Facts About Space (Atria). 

NPR has an interview with Emily Nagoski about her new book, Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections (Ballantine), and “what it means to be sex positive.”

Washington Post talks with British journalist Sarah Ditum about her new book, Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s (Abrams).

NYT distills “The Essential Alice Munro.”

ElectricLit shares “10 Books About Seasonal and Migrant Farmworkers in America.”

USA Today revisits revelations from new Carolina Panthers head coach Dave Canales’s 2022 book, This Marriage?: The Question that Changed Everything (Made for Success), cowritten with his wife Lizzy Canales. 

The Rumpus talks with Alexander Sammartino, Last Acts (Scribner), about “the short novel as a form, satire, and more.”

LA Times talks with Amina Akhtar about her new psychological thriller, Almost Surely Dead, which is publishes tomorrow from Mindy Kaling’s new imprint at Amazon, Mindy's Book Studio. 

Chicago Tribune praises Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon). 

NYT has a feature on Jo Salas’s new historical novel, Mrs. Lowe-Porter (Jack Leg Pr.), about Nobel Prize–winning author Thomas Mann’s American translator. 

Scholastic will release an illustrated edition of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, illus. by Nico Delort, in October, Gizmodo reports.

Diana Khoi Nguyen, Root Fractures: Poems (Scribner), answers 10 questions at Poets&Writers.

The late Rush drummer Neil Peart’s final book, Silver Surfers: Sports Cars of the Sixties (Insight Editions), will publish in May. CBC has the story. 

Authors on Air

Gillian Flynn’s Dark Places will be adapted as a limited series at HBO, Variety reports.

Kwame Alexander, editor of This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (Little, Brown; LJ starred review), will be on the Today Show tomorrow and will also appear on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Damona Hoffman, F the Fairy Tale: Rewrite the Dating Myths and Live Your Own Love Story (Seal), will visit with Drew Barrymore.

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