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Awards & News

Oprah selects Dream State by Eric Puchner (Doubleday) for her book club. Washington Post reviews: “I see you teetering there between choosing to read Dream State or not. Jump in.” Puchner discusses the book with NPR’s Morning Edition. Plus, A24 announces plans to adapt the novel for TV. 

The LA Times Book Prize finalists are announced. Pico Iyer, author of Aflame: Learning from Silence (Riverhead), will receive the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement; Emily Witt, author of Health and Safety: A Breakdown (Pantheon), will be honored with the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose; and the Innovator’s Award will go to poet Amanda Gorman. 

The winners of the Reed Environmental Writing Award are announced.

The shortlist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction is announced.

Perminder Mann is named CEO of Simon & Schuster International, Publishers Lunch reports. 

Reviews

Washington Post reviews Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry by Adam Plunkett (Farrar): “In Plunkett, Frost has found an ideal biographer, possessed of an ear for the tonal and moral uncertainties that constitute his subject’s legacy.”

NYT reviews The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770–1800 by Lynn Hunt (Norton): “Yet her book comes at an opportune time, reminding us that seemingly small new habits, whether drinking tea or befriending Chatbots, can lead to revolutions in our sense of self—changes whose full magnitude we may not understand until we have already transformed.”

NPR reviews Memorial Days: A Memoir by Geraldine Brooks (Viking): “Given Brooks’s own distinguished career as a novelist and journalist, it’s no surprise Memorial Days is such a powerful testament of grief; but what is more of a surprise is the emergence of another subject: namely, the tough reality of the writing life.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s), the top holds title of the week. 

BookRiot looks at “Genre-Defying Historical Fiction.”

Seattle Times previews five nature-centric books for spring.

Reactor shares “Five Oddly, Unexpectedly Upbeat Works of SFF.”

Rebe Huntman, author of My Mother in Havana: A Memoir of Magic & Miracle (Monkfish), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers. 

Rich Benjamin discusses his new memoir, Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History (Pantheon), with Slate.

Fox News anchor Dana Perino previews her forthcoming book, I Wish Someone Had Told Me…: The Best Advice for Building a Great Career and a Meaningful Life (Harper), due out April 22. 

Vox recommends On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer by Rick Steves (Rick Steves) and other books “that will broaden your horizons.”

Scottish crime writer Denzil Meyrick has died at the age of 59. BBC has an obituary. 

Authors on Air

Miranda July’s All Fours (Riverhead) is in series development at Starz, Kirkus reports. 

Teton Ridge Entertainment has acquired the rights to Larry McMurtry’s “Lonesome Dove” books. Variety has the story.

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