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Awards & News

The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners are announced, including The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk (Yale Univ.) for nonfiction, Tremor by Teju Cole (Random; LJ starred review) for fiction, and From From: Poems by Monica Youn (Graywolf; LJ starred review) for poetry. Maxine Hong Kingston is honored for lifetime achievement.

Paul Yoon wins the Story Prize for The Hive and the Honey: Stories (S. & S./Marysue Rucci; LJ starred review).

The Dublin Literary Award shortlist is announced, including books by Sebastian Barry, Emma Donoghue, and Alexis Wright. 

The James Tait Black Prizes shortlists are announced. 

The Australian Book Industry Awards shortlists are announced. Books+Publishing has details. 

The Dinesh Allirajah Prize shortlist is announced, Locus reports.

Eurithe Purdy launches the Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize, which will recognize the best new book of Canadian poetry, CBC reports.

Publishing Perspectives breaks down AAP’s latest statshot. LJ also has coverage, as does Publishers Weekly. 

Bard Books launches with Gordon Lish’s To Have Written a Book and Annals and Indices. Publishers Weekly reports. 

Reviews

NYT reviews Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism by Stephen Breyer (S. & S.): “Subjecting your readers to a forced march through complex arcana, telling them the 'repetition' is for their own good, is more likely to exhaust them than prepare them”; and Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber by Steven Hale (Melville House): “Death Row Welcomes You demands that we not look away, that we reckon more honestly with how and whom we punish.” There are also short reviews of four new horror books: Murder Road by Simone St. James (Berkley; LJ starred review), Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk, tr. by Heather Cleary (Dutton), Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories, ed. by Sarah Coolidge (Two Lines), and Stitches by Hirokatsu Kihara, illus. by Junji Ito (VIZ Media). 

Washington Post reviews City in Ruins by Don Winslow (Morrow): “You can read City in Ruins as a meditation on honor, revenge and justice, but the book also challenges readers to examine beliefs about morality”; Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon (Holt; LJ starred review): “In a contemporary moment of war, Lennon’s sharp eye for the barbarism that can accompany society’s theatrical coping mechanisms feels almost too relevant”; and Write Like a Man  Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals by Ronnie Grinberg (Princeton Univ.): “Grinberg’s writing, unlike that of her subjects, is not polemical, but measured and nuanced. And though the work is detailed—it is, after all, a close examination of a set of individuals and a close reading of their writings—it never grows dull or detached from its larger themes.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for The Truth About the Devlins by Lisa Scottoline (Putnam), the top holds title of the week. 

LJ has new prepub alerts. 

NYT distills the essential Stephen King, while George R.R. Martin, Sissy Spacek, Tom Hanks and others pay homage to King as his book Carrie turns 50. 

Amor Towles discusses his latest book, Table for Two: Fictions (Viking; LJ starred review), and the new Paramount+ series adaptation of his novel A Gentleman in Moscow, with USA Today. 

Casey McQuiston preps readers for her forthcoming book, The Pairing (St. Martin’s), due out on August 6, at USA Today. 

Reactor provides a guide to the fiction of the late Hugo Award–winning Vernor Vinge.

ElectricLit shares “9 Books that Center Deaf and Hard of Hearing Characters.”

Garrard Conley, All the World Beside (Riverhead), answers 10 questions at Poets&Writers. 

Cynthia Erivo will narrate the audiobook of Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Anguish and Anarchy, due out June 25. People has the exclusive.

Entertainment Weekly shares an excerpt from Star Wars: The Living Force by John Jackson Miller (Random House Worlds), due out April 9, featuring Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan. 

Susan Lieu talks with The Rumpus about her memoir The Manicurist’s Daughter (Celadon), “what it means to be an artist, and the connection we can all find from reaching one another’s stories.”

“Marjorie Perloff, Leading Scholar of Avant-Garde Poetry, Dies at 92.” NYT has an obituary.

Authors on Air

Hoopla, in partnership with All3Media, launches a Gardening with Monty Don Bingepass, bringing UK gardening icon Monty Don’s TV content to library patrons. Don’s latest book, The Gardening Book: An Accessible Guide to Growing Houseplants, Flowers, and Vegetables for Your Ideal Garden (Clarkson Potter), publishes April 9.

George R. Stewart’s Earth Abides (Harper Voyager) will be adapted as a series. Deadline reports.

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