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Awards & Buzzy Book News

The 2023 Audie Awards finalists are announced. 

The Parliamentary Book Awards winners are announced.

Book Riot digs deeper into the publishing industry’s issues with salaries and benefits for their workers. Also, The Bookseller reports on the gender and ethnicity pay gaps at HarperCollins.

Clarkesworld, a science fiction magazine, has paused open submissions due to the influx of A.I.-generated work, NYT reports.

NYT has an opinion piece on North Dakota's "war on books and librarians."

Feminist scholar Linda King Newell has died at 82 and publisher John Macrea III has passed away at 91 years old. NYT has more on both of their work and lives.

Page to Screen

February 24:

Jesus Revolution, based on the book by Greg Laurie. Lionsgate. Reviews | Trailer

Blueback, based on the book by Tim Winton. Quiver. Reviews | Trailer

The Quiet Girl, based on the book Foster by Claire Keegan. Super LTD. Reviews | Trailer

Devil’s Peak, based on the book Where All Light Tends to Go by David Joy. Screen Media Films. Reviews | Trailer

We Have a Ghost, based on the short story “Ernest” by Geoff Manuagh. Netflix. Reviews | Trailer

The Consultant, based on the book by Bentley Little. Prime Video. Reviews | Trailer

February 25:

12 Desperate Hours, based on the book by Ann Rule. Lifetime. No reviews | Trailer

March 2:

Dragons: The Nine Realms, based on the book series by Cressida Cowell. Hulu/Peacock. Reviews | Trailer

Sex/Life, based on the book 44 Chapters About 4 Men by BB Easton. Netflix. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

The Washington Post reviews Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear, by Erica Berry (Flatiron; LJ starred review): “Berry treks through many nonfiction genres, from coming-of-age memoir to ecological history, from thriller-paced personal stories to feminist critique, poetic nature writing and sociological theory. But the intuitive, winding nature of Berry’s approach shouldn’t suggest that this work is unfocused;" The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink by William Indoden (Dutton): "even readers who are not students of the Reagan Victory School will appreciate Inboden’s deeply informed and gracefully written account. By proceeding chronologically, he makes vividly clear how Reagan conducted the Cold War while contending with a host of other harrowing foreign policy issues, including terrorism and wars in the Middle East, political upheaval in Central and South America, and economic transformations in Asia. And he superbly invokes the peril and uncertainty of the era;" Every Man a King by Walter Mosley (Mulholland; LJ starred review): "The issues of inequity, race, poverty, wealth and class are all here in prose and plot, animated by everyman characters unbowed by convention, who leap off the page level-eyed and unrepentant;" and, I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai (Viking; LJ starred review): "an attempt — both reluctant and obsessive — to work out exactly what happened 23 years ago and why that crime was so neatly packed away."

NYT reviews Users by Colin Winnette (Soft Skull): “not only a book for today or a warning about tomorrow, but a timeless and moving story about fatherhood and one man’s yearning for a more meaningful life.” Plus, 4 short reviews of romance novels "for cold winter days" including: The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest (Berkley; LJ starred review), Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett (Del Rey; LJ starred review), Sixpenny Octavo by Annick Trent (self-published, ebook), and The Worst Woman in London (self-published, paperback). 

NPR reviews We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship by Will Schwalbe (Knopf): “about the closely observed ups and downs of a frequently uneasy relationship, which required deliberate effort to sustain.”

Datebook reviews Who Does That Bitch Think She Is?: Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag, by Craig Seligman (Public Affairs): “Beyond setting Fish in the larger context of the times, Seligman’s book also reveals the man behind the queen and includes dishy remembrances from close friends and collaborators.”

Locus Magazine reviews The Terraformers, by Annalee Newitz (Tor; LJ starred review): “there’s a refreshingly playful sensibility at work here, while at the same time Newitz offers a deeply serious critique of capitalism as a mecha­nism for environmental management. The villains, presented in a pretty unvarnished manner, are not galactic empires or scary aliens, but a terror much closer to home: basically, real-estate developers.”

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

Briefly Noted

Maria José Ferrada, author of How to Turn into a Bird (Tin House), chats with Electric Lit about “loners, the pursuit of happiness, and the spirit of childhood and how it is the antithesis of a dictatorship.”

Steve Berry talks about “history, research, preservation,” and his newest book, The Last Kingdom (Grand Central), in an interview with CrimeReads.

Bustle chats with The Bachelor “experts” and co-authors Chad Kultgen and Lizzy Pace who hope to “save the franchise” with their book, How to Win The Bachelor: The Secret to Finding Love and Fame on America's Favorite Reality Show (Gallery).

The Rumpus speaks to Allegra Hyde about her book, The Last Catastrophe (Vintage) and The Rumpus’ Book Club’s April pick.

NYT has a conversation with Alice Robb, authr of Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet (Mariner: HarperCollins) about "letting go of her ballet dream." Plus, Inside the Best-Seller List revisits Marcia Davenport’s 1947 book East Side, West Side as a “love letter to Manhattan.” Also, a deep dive into the forthcoming memoir, The Absent Moon by Luiz Schwarcz (Penguin Pr.). 

Electric Lit has a cover reveal for Isle McElroy’s newest book, People Collide (HarperVia). 

Lit Hub provides a cover reveal for Promise by Rachel Eliza Griffiths (Random).

In preparation for the film Dune: Part II, Popsugar gives readers the 6 Dune books in the series by the order of their plots.

Tor.com has “Five Books About Failed Adventures in Terraforming.”

CrimeReads shares “The Best International Fiction of February" and "The Best Debut Novels Out This Month."

Electric Lit lists “9 Books That Rethink Our Narratives About Health and Healing.”

Bustle has “The 42 Best Vampire Books to Read Now.”

Michael Greyeyes shares his 6 favorite dystopian novels for CBC Books. 

Book Riot provides lists for “8 of the Best Crime Thrillers” and “2023 Queer Romcoms Sure To Make You Swoon.”

HipLatina gives “17 Books to Understand the Black History of Latin America.”

The Root’s It’s Lit shares “Books by Black Authors We Can’t Wait to Read” for March 2023.

NYT recommends 9 new books this week, "9 strangely wonderful books beyond the bestseller list," and self-help books for those wanting to "put something in writing."

Authors on Air

The adaptation of Stephen King’s It will be getting a prequel series through HBO Max, according to The Verge.

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