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Award & Buzzy Book News

2023 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize longlist is announced.

Poets & Writers tackles the topic of how “ChatGPT Revises Authorship.”

Lit Hub delves into the world of growing celebrity imprints.

April’s EarlyWord GalleyChat spreadsheet is released.

Journalist Alicia C. Shepard has died at 69, and crime writer Anne Perry has passed away at 84. NYT has more on their work and lives.

New Title Bestsellers

Links for the week: NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers | NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Sellers | USA Today Best-Selling Books

Fiction

Homecoming by Kate Morton (Mariner: HarperCollins) arrives at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers list.

Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random; LJ starred review) debuts at No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers list.

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson (Tor) sparkles at No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers list.

The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth (St. Martin’s) shines at No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers list.

Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling (Atria) begins at No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers list.

Nonfiction

Choosing to Run: A Memoir by Des Linden with Bonnie D. Ford (Dutton) starts at No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Sellers list.

Got Your Number: The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own by Mike Greenberg with Paul Hembekides (Hyperion Avenue) hits No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Sellers list.

A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan (Viking; LJ starred review) rises to No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Sellers list.

Follow Me to Hell: McNelly’s Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice by Tom Clavin (St. Martin’s) stampedes to No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Sellers list.

Reviews

The Washington Post review The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape by Katie Holten (Tin House): “More than informative, The Language of Trees is inspiring; many of its writers merge the lyric with insights that are scientific, intimate and surprising”; Losing Music by John Cotter (Milkweed Editions): “Offers a compelling portrait of how deafness isolates people from even those closest to them”; This Isn’t Going To End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew by Daniel Wallace (Algonquin): “Gives off the particular radiance of a life lived hard, whatever else: as such, a brand of American bildungsroman. There’s deep satisfaction to its arc, despite its inherent sadness—a wondrous glimpse of the melding, in human doings, of fate, character and serendipity”; and American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal by Neil King (Mariner Books): “Walking with King is like having an especially learned and observant companion, one who wears his erudition lightly as he regales you with concise yet illuminating glimpses into a moment of American history that happens to coincide with each spot he happens upon.”

Poets & Writers has three short reviews on “uncommon collections” including: The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape, by Katie Holten (Tin House); Minor Notes, Volume 1: Poems by a Slave; Vision of the Dusk; and Bronze: A Book of Verse, ed. by Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy (Penguin Classics); and Between Paradise and Earth: Eve Poems (Orison Books). 

Book Marks selects “5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week.”

Briefly Noted

Poets & Writers highlights the work of Camille T. Dungy including her newest, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (S. & S.) and also profiles Luis Alberto Urrea, author of soon-to-be-released Good Night, Irene (Little, Brown).

NYT interviews David Grann about his “swashbuckling tale of mutiny” in The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Wonder (Doubleday). 

Polly Stewart, author of forthcoming thriller The Good Ones (Harper), revisits Ruth Rendell’s Kissing the Gunner’s Daughter with Kate White, Between Two Strangers (Harper), for CrimeReads.

NYT’s “Inside the Best-Seller List” explores Clint Smith’s newest poetry collection, Above Ground (Little, Brown; LJ starred review), and older work.

Charles Frazier, The Trackers (Ecco), fills out NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

Tor.com dives into “the storytelling brilliance of Isabel Allende.”

Jack Carr, Only the Dead (Pocket Books: S. & S.), revisits the work of the late Tom Clancy on his birthday for Fox News.

Tor.com has an excerpt from Spring’s Arcana by Lilith Saintcrow (Tor).

Poets & Writers delves into “Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin.”

CrimeReads shares “Five Speculative Novels Set in Worlds Full of Books,” “7 Historical Novels With Mysteries at Their Center,” and “Top 10 Espionage Novels Centering Women’s Stories.”

Lit Hub provides "A Reading List in Honor of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Boston."

Tor.com lists “Five Vintage Works of American Comedic Fantasy” and “Five Books Filled with Existential Anxiety.”

The Guardian shares “Top 10 badly behaved biographies.”

Authors on Air

Gina Chung, Sea Change (Vintage), discusses “fostering a long-haul creative practice” on the Thresholds podcast. 

Anjan Sundaram speaks to the Keen On podcast about “the devastating personal costs of being a war correspondent in Africa” as detailed in his new book, Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime (Catapult). Also, William Brewer, The Red Arrow (Knopf), “explains how psychedelic therapy saved his life.” Plus, Beth Behrendt talks about the subject of her book, Nesting After Divorce: Co-Parenting in the Family Home (Union Square).

Dr. Sandeep Jauhar, author of My Father’s Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s (FSG), talks to NPR’s Terry Gross about how “caring for his dad was the hardest journey he’s ever taken” on Fresh Air.

Alex Mar chats about “the story of radical forgiveness behind her new book,” Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy (Penguin Pr.), on The Maris Review. 

Jinwoo Chong describes his writing process to the Otherppl podcast for his novel, Flux (Melville House).

Jeff Boyd, author of The Weight (S. & S.), talks about “race, music, religion, and love in contemporary Portland” in a conversation on the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast.

Billy Porter will portray James Baldwin in a biopic with Allen Media Group Motion Pictures, as announced by People. Shadow and Act also covers this story.

Hartswood Films has won the right to adapt The Warlock Effect by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, according to Deadline.

HBO officially announces the new Harry Potter television series, covered by news sources including: Good Morning America, The Hollywood Reporter, and NYT. Also, an exploration of the cast by Variety and Deadline’s take on J.K. Rowling’s involvement. Plus, HBO has ordered a Game of Thrones prequel series based on the “Dunk and Egg” book series of books from George R.R. Martin, as reported by Variety. 

Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope (Celadon), will appear as a guest on the Jimmy Kimmel show tonight.

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