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Awards, News & Buzzy Books

Rebecca Yarros will publish a stand-alone novel this fall. Variation (Montlake) publishes October 8. People has the story. 

Kemi Ashing-Giwa wins the Compton Crook Award for The Splinter in the Sky (Gallery/Saga). Locus has details. 

Oren Kessler wins the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict (Rowman & Littlefield).

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist is announced.

The BookPeople Book of the Year shortlists are announced. Books + Publishing has details.

The May LibraryReads list is out, featuring top pick The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton (Sourcebooks Landmark; LJ starred review).

Taylor Swift launched a pop-up poetry library in Los Angeles. Teen Vogue has the story. 

Publishing Perspectives provides details on latest Circana BookScan report.

Author Sophie Kinsella announced an aggressive brain cancer diagnosis on X.

Reviews

Washington Post reviews Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right by Neil J. Young (Univ. of Chicago): “Anyone could benefit from reading this book. Straight people will learn how the puritanical impulse to control other people’s sex lives has defined politics for nearly a century, an impulse as old as it is futile. Queer people—who often must teach ourselves our own history—will learn how respectability remains an empty promise. But it is gay Republicans themselves who most need to read Young’s book”; and Jumpnauts by Hao Jingfang tr. by Ken Liu (S. & S./Saga): “Ultimately, Jumpnauts is as different from Hao’s other English-language fictions as it is representative of her oeuvre as a whole. It is precisely its madcap range that makes it such a treat, its total lack of interest in distinctions between highbrow and lowbrow entertainment or between philosophy and mere fancy.”

The Atlantic reviews Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie (Random): “The most powerful manifestation of this art in Knife is Rushdie’s description—precise and without self-pity—of the price he pays for his words.” Washington Post also reviews: “Knife is not worthy of his best work or the pain that occasioned it, though his desire to memorialize his anguish is of course understandable.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci (Grand Central), the top holds title of the week. 

LJ has new prepub alerts: Horror, Social Sciences, more Memoirs. 

Peace Adzo Medie leads a literary tour through Ghana’s capital, Accra, at NYT. 

Emmy award winner Julianne Hough announced she will publish her debut novel, Everything We Never Knew, written with Ellen Goodlett (Sourcebooks Landmark), in August. People has the story.

Eater writes about how Fania Lewando’s 2015 cookbook, The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook: Garden-Fresh Recipes Rediscovered and Adapted for Today’s Kitchen, tr. by Eve Jochnowitz (Schocken), was “ahead of its time.”

Harper Collins acquires world rights to Tom Bower’s forthcoming The House of Beckham: Money, Sex and Power, due out June 25. People reports.

Vogue shares “10 Books That Changed Anna Sui’s Life.”

Vanity Fair highlights 11 books for the month. 

Vox investigates the influx of “garbage ebooks” on Amazon.

ElectricLit shares “7 Books About Unconventional Situationships.”

FoodTank offers a spring booklist of 20 titles that are “redefining our relationship with food and the planet.”

Authors On Air

Salman Rushdie discusses his new book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder (Random), with NPR’s Fresh Air. 

Mick Herron’s Down Cemetery Road (Soho Crime) will be adapted as a series for Apple TV+. Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson are attached to star. Deadline reports. 

Don Winslow’s City on Fire (Morrow; LJ starred review) will get a film adaptation, with Austin Butler set to produce and star. Deadline reports. 

John Green and Hannah discuss their adaptation of Green’s 2017 book, Turtles All the Way Down (Dutton), at Vanity Fair.

Author Leila Mottley selects 10 books to read this National Poetry Month for GMA. Mottley talks about her new collection of poetry, woke up no light: poems (Knopf), with Datebook. 

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