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Awards

The 2021 World Fantasy Awards finalists are announced. Locus has details.

Chris Whitaker wins the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award for We Begin At The End (Holt: Macmillan). The Bookseller reports.

The 2021 Seiun Awards Winners are announced. Locus has a report.

Page to Screen

July 23:

Old, based on the graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters. Universal Pictures. No reviews | Trailer

Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, based on associated titles. Paramount Pictures. No reviews | Trailer

The Last Letter from Your Lover, based on a book by Jojo Moyes. Netflix. No reviews | Trailer

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, based on the book by Gerald Brittle. VOD. Reviews | Trailer

Kingdom: Ashin of the North, based on the webcomic series The Kingdom of the Gods by Kim Eun-hee. Netflix. No reviews | Trailer

Mama Weed, based on the book by Hannelore Cayre. VOD. Reviews | Trailer

Zola (@zola), based on the Twitter thread by Aziah “Zola” King and the article Zola Tells All: The Real Story Behind the Greatest Stripper Saga Ever Tweeted published in Rolling Stone. VOD. Reviews | Trailer

July 26:

Roswell, New Mexico, based on the book series Roswell High by Melinda Metz. CW. Reviews | Trailer

July 27:

Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two, based on the comic book series by Jeph Loeb. VOD. No reviews | Trailer 

July 28:

The Snitch Cartel: Origins, based on the book by Andrés López López. Netflix. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

The Washington Post reviews The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell (Crown): “is both a ticktock of Neumann’s self-immolation and a primer on the ways and mores of a start-up culture populated by visionaries, grifters and moneymen. It charts the Israeli-born founder’s journey from struggling baby clothes salesman to messianic billionaire-on-paper.”

The LA Times reviews Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California by Matthew Specktor (Tin House): “Specktor determines to map out a territory between success and failure — the interstices where most of us live, though rarely are they spoken of in all-or-nothing Hollywood.”

The Guardian reviews Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith (Random House): “The twin spectres of colonialism and sexualised violence lurk in the humid Vietnamese air as two-headed snakes slither underfoot in Violet Kupersmith’s marvellous and confounding debut novel.”  Also, 12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next by Jeanette Winterson (Grove):  “Winterson might be on to something when she suggests that in a future defined by connectivity and hybridity, love will be more meaningful than intelligence. Could love actually be intelligence, in a disembodied world?”   

Book Marks has  "The Best Reviewed Books of the Week."

Briefly Noted

Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen are publishing a book adaptation of their podcast Renegades: Born in the USA. Vulture has details.

Entertainment Weekly offers a first look at Misfits by Michaela Coel (Holt: Macmillan).

An authorized Winnie-the-Pooh prequel is in the works. The Guardian reports.

Glory Edim, founder of the book club Well-Read Black Girl, and Maureen Corrigan, NPR book critic, suggest books for the summer. PBS NewsHour has the list.

Electric Lit has a summer reading horoscope.

Oprah talks with Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water (Little Brown: Hachette).

Bomb interviews Pik-Shuen Fung, Ghost Forest (One World: Random House; LJ starred review).

The Guardian interviews Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Plot (Celadon: Macmillan) and Michael Lewis answers the paper’s "Books that made me" questionnaire.

Authors on Air

NPR’s Morning Edition covers the toll of the pandemic on authors and book discovery.

Apple TV plans an adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation. The Hollywood Reporter has details.

Phillipa Soo joins the cast of AppleTV’s adaptation of Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes. Shailene Woodley will star in Showtime’s adaptation of Three Women by Lisa Taddeo. Alexandra Billings joins the cast of The Peripheral, Amazon’s adaptation of the William Gibson novel. Apple plans to adapt Judy Heumann’s memoir Being Heumann. Deadline has all the news.

The adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s short story “Drive My Car” wins best screenplay at Cannes. LitHub reports.

Dune gets a new trailer.

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