Anita Mechler

The Edgar Award winners are announced; Best Novel goes to Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka, while Eli Cranor wins Best First Novel for Don’t Know Tough. Ebony highlights “5 Black Male Poets Whose Words Enthrall Us.” The NYT romance column is out. There are new efforts to pass the Right To Read Act. Nora Robert faces censorship in Florida. Killers of the Flower Moon makes news. Plus, Page to Screen.

Jamil Jan Kochai wins the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize for The Haunting of Hajji Hotak And Other Stories. More award news arrives from the Writers’ Trust Rising Stars and the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize shortlist. Several interviews feature the voices of authors such as Melissa Coss Aquino, Genevieve Wheeler, Tove Danovich and Neil King. There is adaptation news for Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus and William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.

Announcements include 2023 Young Lions Fiction Award finalists, Nancy Drew action figures, and a new digital publishing imprint, Orbit Works. Beginning their debuts on the best-seller lists are Dark Angel by John Sandford, The Only Survivors by Megan Miranda, Lassiter by J.R. Ward, You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith, I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan by Katie Porter, and It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs by Mary Louise Kelly. Author conversations include the thoughts of Alison L. Strayer, Elizabeth Graver, J.C. Hallman, Jonathan Rosen, Lauren Oyler, Minka Kelly, Julia Lee, Tanis Rideout, and Daniel F. Runde.