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Awards & News

The National Book Foundation announces its 2024 5 Under 35 Honorees: Antonia Angress, author of Sirens & Muses (Ballantine; LJ starred review); Maya Binyam, author of Hangman (Farrar); Zain Khalid, author of Brother Alive (Grove; LJ starred review); Tyriek White, author of We Are a Haunting (Astra House); and Jenny Tinghui Zhang, author of Four Treasures of the Sky (Flatiron; LJ starred review). 

Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life (Farrar; LJ starred review) wins the New-York Historical Society’s 2024 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize. NYT has coverage. 

Tom Crewe, The New Life (Scribner), wins the Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award.

Page Six reports that NFL coach Bill Belichick is currently shopping a business book.

Influential Publishers Weekly editor Sybil Steinberg dies at 90. PW remembers her legacy.

Reviews

NYT reviews On Giving Up by Adam Phillips (Farrar): “Phillips, a British psychoanalyst, sidles up to his subjects, preferring the gentle mode of suggestion to the blunt force of argument. His writing has a way of sneaking up on you, like a subterranean force.” Plus there are short reviews of three historical fiction books.

NPR reviews The Tree Doctor by Marie Mutsuki Mockett (Graywolf): “This is a wonderful novel, wise and sensitive, and a stunning reflection on how we reinvent ourselves when we’re left with no other choice.”

Washington Post reviews The Morningside by Téa Obreht (Random): “The lush, semi-magical moments that serve as the heart of Obreht’s previous novels risk looking like asides in this new one, which delivers several storylines and a final flurry of dramatic events”; and The Divorcées by Rowan Beaird (Flatiron): “The Divorcées is a little-known slice of history that opens up elegantly, like slowly pulling off the rind of ripe fruit. Maybe the women’s new lives won’t be good. Maybe their second acts will be worse. But they’ll be different. And that in itself is freedom.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle (Atria), the top holds title of the week.

LJ has new prepub alerts.

Forbes has a list of books for April’s solar eclipse.

Percival Everett gives an interview about his new book, James (Doubleday; LJ starred review), at Vulture.

Daniel de Visé publishes an excerpt from his book, The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic (Atlantic Monthly), in USA Today.

People previews Mary L. Trump’s forthcoming book about her family, Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir, due out September 10 from St. Martin’s.

Heather McCalden, The Observable Universe: An Investigation (Hogarth), answers 10 questions at Poets + Writers.

LA Times talks with Chris Bohjalian about his latest book, The Princess of Las Vegas (Doubleday). 

Téa Obreht, The Morningside (Random), discusses her favorite books with Entertainment Weekly.

Hanif Abdurraqib talks about his new book, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension (Random), with Washington Post.

Reactor shares an excerpt from The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; LJ starred review), due out next week.

Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley reveals the cover of his forthcoming memoir, Walking Disaster: My Life Through Heaven and Hell (Gallery), which publishes October 8. People has the exclusive. 

“Paulin Hountondji, Revolutionary African Philosopher, Dies at 81.” NYT has an obituary. 

Authors on Air

Christine Blasey Ford discusses her book, One Way Back: A Memoir (St. Martin’s), with NPR’s Fresh Air.

Karin Slaughter will adapt and executive-produce a Peacock series of The Good Daughter, starring Jessica Biel. Deadline reports.

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