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Awards & News

The 2023 Oscar nominations are announced, including nods for the adaptions All Quiet on the Western Front, based on the book by Erich Maria Remarque, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, with assoc. titles, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, based on the book by Paul Gallico, and Women Talking, based on the book by Miriam Toews.

The 2022 Sarton Awards and Gilda Prize shortlists are announced.

Judges for the 2023 World Fantasy Awards are announced. Locus has details. 

OprahDaily posts: “Why You Should Read the Winner of 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature.”

The Washington Post reminds: “Before [the] book-banning wave, the FBI spied on people’s library activity.”

A new online exhibit offers a close-up look at L.M Montgomery’s original Anne of Green Gables manuscript. CBC reports. 

Amazon’s new Ebook return policy will take effect soon, Publishers Lunch reports. 

Reviews

NYT reviews The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier, trans. by Daniel Levin Becker (Transit): “It means a nail-biter plot, but also a focus on characters’ interior worlds so detailed that at times I forgot there was a plot at all. It is psychological, on the one hand, and a thriller, on the other, as if the book were two books at once.” And, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber (Farrar): “In this case, he may well have been right about the ways he believed pirates influenced the culture of Madagascar, but as he admits there is simply not enough evidence to know for sure.” Also, Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System by Jeff Hobbs (Scribner): “He tells us a lot about an important subject — the history of juvenile justice in the United States, the way different modes of punishment or education function (or don’t) within each facility — but he ends up making little of what he’s found.” And, The Chinese Groove by Kathryn Ma (Counterpoint): “Immigrant novels are so frequently tales of devastating woe, but Ma’s iteration of the young migrant story is imbued with inherent optimism.” Plus, After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz (Liveright: Norton): “The twin currents of lesbian desire and creative self-invention drive Schwartz’s narrative, an informal history of the emergence of modernism, told through interconnected anecdotes about real-life women artists, writers, intellectuals, actors, translators, dancers and feminist troublemakers in Europe at the turn of the 20th century.” Lastly, This Other Eden by Paul Harding (Norton): “Not without complication, not without terror, This Other Eden is ultimately a testament of love: love of kin, love of nature, love of art, love of self, love of home. Harding has written a novel out of poetry and sunlight, violent history and tender remembering.

The Washington Post also reviews This Other Eden by Paul Harding (Norton): “Harding’s finely wrought prose shows us a community that refuses to see itself through the judgmental eyes of others, a society composed of people who give their neighbors the same latitude to go their own way that they claim for themselves.” And, Decent People by De'Shawn Charles Winslow (Bloomsbury): “The larger social context that Winslow explores is what moves this story beyond one crime into a reflection on the myriad unacknowledged crimes committed across decades.” Also, Central Places by Delia Cai (Ballantine): “Cai…paints a sobering portrait of small-town America, not as a place the ambitious and conscientious must flee but as a site of reckoning — between past and present, stereotype and reality, and the differences between those who call it home.” Plus, Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love by Mike Pompeo (Broadside): “Pompeo is a good husband, a good father, a good Christian and a great patriot. But no reader can fail to appreciate — as Trump did — that he really is a mean son of a bitch.”

Briefly Noted

Entertainment Weekly previews and shares an excerpt from Stephen King’s forthcoming Holly, due out from Scribner in September. 

AARP offers an excerpt from Anne Heche’s posthumous memoir, Call Me Anne (Start Publishing).

NPR has an interview with Elizabeth Colomba and Aurélie Lévy about their new graphic novel, Queenie: Godmother of Harlem (Harry N. Abrams). 

Emma Lord discusses her new novel, Begin Again (Wednesday Books), with Shondaland. 

OprahDaily revisits Oprah’s book club selection, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle (Penguin Life), and what the book meant to her. 

LA Times talks with Jeff Hobbs about the “heartbreaking tour of the school-to-prison pipeline” in his book, Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System (Scribner).

Esquire shares the “biggest revelations” from Pamela Anderson’s new memoir, Love, Pamela (Dey Street).

BookRiot looks at the most popular YA Mysteries on TikTok. 

The Guardian rounds up the best thriller and crime writing.

LitHub highlights 19 new books. 

USA Today has “20 winter books we can't wait to read.”

The Millions highlights this week’s notable new releases. 

CrimeReads shares murder, mysteries and midwestern noir. 

ElectricLit catalogs 7 acts of betrayal in literature. 

Authors on Air

Apple TV+’s Dear Edward, based on the novel by Ann Napolitano, gets a trailer.

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