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Awards

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell (Knopf) wins the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire by Tom Zoellner (Harvard) wins for nonfiction. The NYT reports.

The Dublin Literary Award 2021 Shortlist is announced.

The shortlist is also announced for The Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize.

Page to Screen

March 26:

The Irregulars, associated with Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series. Prime Video. No reviews | Trailer

Invincible, based on comic book series The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman. Prime Video. Reviews | Trailer

Kuessipan, an adaptation of the novel by Naomi Fontaine. Virtual theaters. Reviews | Trailer

La templanza (The Vineyard), an adaptation of the novel by Maria Dueñas. Prime Video. No reviews | Trailer

March 27:

Tina, documentary based on the book Happiness Becomes You by Tina Turner. HBO. Reviews | Trailer

March 28:

Hidden Jewel, based on the book by V.C. Andrews. Lifetime. No reviews | No trailer

March 30:

Supergirl, which has associated titles. CW. No reviews | Trailer

March 31:

Godzilla vs. Kong, which has associated titles. HBO Max. Reviews | Trailer

April 1:

Creepshow, based on the comic book series of short stories by Stephen King. Shudder. Reviews | Trailer

Made for Love, based on the book by Alissa Nutting. HBO Max. No reviews | Trailer

Reviews

NPR reviews There's No Such Thing As An Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura (Bloomsbury: Macmillan):  “Translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton, the novel, originally written in 2016, uncannily captures our job landscape during COVID."

The NYT reviews Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? by Jesse McCarthy (Liverlight: Norton): “McCarthy’s essays are richly varied, and one surmises the abundant intersections of art and race were in large measure informed by his own experiences growing up Black in America and in France.” Also, Children Under Fire: An American Crisis by John Woodrow Cox (Ecco: Harpercollins): “lays bare the human cost of things that cannot be counted when it comes to children and gun violence.”

USA Today reviews Back to the Future: DeLorean Time Machine: Doc Brown’s Owners’ Workshop Manual by Bob Gale and Joe Walser (Insight Editions): “Time and again, Gale and Walser demonstrate and celebrate the resourcefulness, ingenuity and inventiveness of a character that's been near and dear to fans' hearts for more than 35 years, showing Doc Brown as someone who's never deterred by whatever stumbling blocks are in his way.”

Oprahdaily reviews Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia (Flatiron): “Even with salt in their wounds, the women of Garcia’s soaring first novel survive—despite brutal husbands and boyfriends, war, separation, poverty, violence. They try and leave behind the past, while drawing strength from their histories.” Also, Girlhood by Melissa Febos (Bloomsbury): “In a book that rejects familiar narratives, the romantic tale Febos portrays—love of self before love of someone else—is one readers will swoon over.”

Entertainment Weekly reviews five romances from February.

Briefly Noted

O: The Oprah Magazine has news on Richard Wright's The Man Who Lived Underground and its publication history (or lack thereof as it was censored) as well as the censorship history of Native Son and Black Boy.

Vogue features Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia (Flatiron: Macmillan).

Entertainment Weekly has an early look at No Words by Meg Cabot (William Morrow: Harper).

O: The Oprah Magazine excerpts You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience ed. by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown (Random).

A new edition of Lord of the Rings will include art by J.R.R. Tolkien. Entertainment Weekly reports on the new HMH work.

The L.A. Times invites readers to “Escape 2021’s sourdough hellscape with Laurie Colwin’s delightful reissued books.”

The NYT suggests “15 New Books to Watch For in April.” Also, “12 New Books We Recommend This Week.”

O: The Oprah Magazine offers “20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This April, Rain or Shine.”

Vogue names "9 LGBTQ+ Books We’re Looking Forward to This Spring.”

Electric Lit suggests “7 Books to Understand the Arab Spring.” Also, there is an essay titled “We Need to Translate More Armenian Literature.”

The Millions interviews André Aciman, Homo Irrealis: Essays (FSG).

Salon interviews Don Lemon, This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends about Racism (Little, Brown).

The Guardian interviews Vivian Gornick, Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader (FSG: Macmillan).

io9 reports that Marvel is ceasing distribution with Diamond and will go with PRH.

The Washington Post invites readers to “Pick the best fictional detective.”

Authors on Air

Deadline reports lots of casting news addressing: All The Queen’s Men, based on Christian Keye’s Ladies Night, The Good Nurse, based on the book by Charles Graeber; The Terminal List, based on the book by Jack Carr; The Lincoln Lawyer, based on the books by Michael Connelly; for a new show based on Jeff Pearlman’s Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s; and for the CW’s Batwoman.

NPR's Morning Edition interviews Raymond Antrobus, The Perseverance (Tin House: W.W. Norton).

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