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Awards & Buzzy Book News

2023 Southern Book Prize finalists are announced.

The 2022 Writers' Trust of Canada Awards winners are announced.

Brigitte Giraud wins the Prix Goncourt, according to The Guardian. 

After a library director in Tennessee resigned due to pressure around LGBTQ+ literary events, a woman goes viral with her support, Book Riot reports.

Rabbi Philip Hiat, known for a book and traveling exhibition of Jewish manuscripts, has died at 95. NYT has more. Also, a presence in Anne Frank’s Diary, Hannah Pick-Goslar has also passed away. 

Page to Screen

November 4:

My Father’s Dragon, based on the book by Ruth Stiles Gannett. Lionsgate. Reviews | Trailer

Enola Holmes 2, based on the series by Nancy Springer. Netflix. Reviews | Trailer

My Policeman, based on the book by Bethan Roberts. Amazon. Reviews | Trailer

The Mosquito Coast, based on the book by Paul Theroux. Apple TV+. Reviews | Trailer

November 6:

Dangerous Liaisons, based on the book by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Starz. Reviews | Trailer

November 9:

Matilda the Musical, based on associated titles. Netflix. Reviews | Trailer

November 10:

Warrior Nun, based on associated titles. Netflix. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

NYT reviews We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman (Harper): "Instead of having a cure for cancer, we’re stuck with raisins. Edi has something else, too: a lifelong friendship. It may not be a cure, but it provides sustenance, comfort and wit — not only for the patient but for anyone who reads this winning novel."

Locus Magazine reviews The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings (Redhook: Hachette): “a literary and music-filled adventure that throws historical quips and asides into the text for everything from jazz to children’s literature.”

Tor.com reviews The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang (Tor): “chock full of narrative tricks, changing what could be a fairly straightforward origin story into a puzzle box for readers to tinker with, turning the story over and over in their hands, trying to find the truth amidst the layers.”

Book Marks reveals "the Best Reviewed Books of the Week."

Briefly Noted

Saidiya Hartman has a conversation with The Nation about her book Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Norton) and "how our understanding of race has changed in the last two decades."

Percival Everett, author of Dr. No (Graywolf; LJ starred review), discusses his career and what inspires his writing with The Washington Post. 

Actress and author Zosia Mamet, talks to Shondaland about her new book, My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings (Penguin), “her complicated relationship with food, and collaborating with Hollywood friends.” 

Ralph Macchio, Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me (Dutton), speaks about the future of his career, The Karate Kid franchise, and more with Salon. 

Veronica Roth chats with Elle about her previous work and latest book, Arch-Conspirator (Tor). 

Entertainment Weekly highlights some of the youthful stories about brotherhood in the graphic novel, Growing Up Farley: A Chris Farley Story by Kevin Farley, set to come out in Fall 2023.

Bono, author of Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story (Knopf; LJ starred review), answers the NYT's By the Book questionnaire.

Michael Dirda explores the works of Marcel Proust for The Washington Post, including the newly released Swann in Love, trans. by Lucy Raitz (Pushkin). 

NPR profiles Shaun Tan’s Creature: Paintings, Drawings, and Reflection (Levine Querido: Chronicle), a “comprehensive collection of Tan's artwork from the last 25 years as well as essays by Tan about his creative practice and lifelong fascination with creatures.”

Tor.com has a cover reveal for Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves by (Sourcebooks Landmark). 

NPR lists “10 books to read to learn about women’s plight in Iran.”

Datebook provides “3 books on activism to get you fired up over progressive politics, racism, worker justice.”

Electric Lit has “7 Books by Women Writers About Humanity’s Relationship to Trees.”

Vulture shares “The Best Books of 2022 (So Far).”

Good Morning America provides “November books to pack for the holidays.”

Town & Country gives a list of “The Best Books to Read This November.”

Refinery29 lists “15 Smutty Holiday Romance Novels.”

Popsugar provides “2022’s Best New Holiday Romance Books.”

Bustle provides “The 33 Most Anticipated Books of November 2022.”

CrimeReads shares "The Best Novels of the Month: November 2022."

Book Riot has “10 Horror Books Coming Out This Month That Will Thrill and Chill.”

NYT recommends 9 new books and 6 new paperbacks.

Authors on Air

Nick Drnaso, author of Acting Class (Drawn and Quarterly), discusses characters who have differing worldviews than the author who created them on The Maris Review podcast.

NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross dips into their archives for interviews featuring Stephen King, author of Fairy Tale (Scribner) on making horror.

Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win (Scribner), chats on the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast about the US midterm elections and the return of his famous character, Tracy Flick.

Aric Prather gives advice from his book, The Sleep Prescription: Seven Days to Unlocking Your Best Rest (Penguin Life; LJ starred review) to the Keen On podcast. Also, Isaac Fitzgerald, author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional (Bloomsbury), discusses the complications with American male writers.

Lit Hub recommends If Books Could Kill, a “podcast about terrible airport books.” Also, Catherine Lacey’s book, The Answers (Picador), will be adapted for an FX television show. Deadline also covers this news.

Frederick Forsyth’s The Day of the Jackal (Putnam), will be developed into a tv show for Sky and Peacock, according to Deadline.

Helen Fielding, author of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (Vintage), is working on a film adaption of her book. People has the scoop.

NYT delves into the recent adaptations of Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montomery. 

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