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Awards & Buzzy Book News

The 35th Annual Triangle Awards are announced.

The 2023 Prometheus Award finalists are announced.

The 2023 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award winners are announced.

NYT explores how The Stinging Fly, a small literary magazine out of Ireland has become “a springboard for great Irish writing.”

Abrams will have a separate division, ComicArts, for graphic novels, manga, and the like, as reported by Publishers Lunch.

USA Today covers Variety’s Power of Women luncheon, that took place on Tuesday, featuring many celebrities and author Judy Blume speaking about book bans.

New Title Bestsellers

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

Fiction

Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls (Scribner) hooks No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers list.

Loyalty by Lisa Scottoline (Putnam) finds No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers list.

Above Ground by Clint Smith (Little, Brown; LJ starred review) emerges to No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers list.

Nonfiction

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia, written with Bill Gifford (Harmony), rises to No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Sellers list.

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope by Sarah Bakewell (Penguin Pr.) debuts at No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Sellers list.

Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America by Abraham Riesman (Atria) chimes into No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Sellers list.

Reviews

The Washington Post reviews The Wounded World: W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World War by Chad L. Williams (Farrar): “Allowing Du Bois’s biography to unfold in all its messy, captivating, inspiring complexity. Specialists and general readers alike will profit from Williams’s sensitive reconstruction of the most challenging period, ethically and politically, of Du Bois’s long life”; Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das (Pegasus): “Full of well-researched details and anecdotes, but they never quite cohere into a larger narrative about Roe or why his time in India merits another investigation. The tentativeness with which Das approaches her subject yields her no deeper a conclusion than the truism that interactions between different cultures are complex, dynamic and subtle”; The Lost Wife by Susanna Moore (Knopf): “Drawn in part from a true story, The Lost Wife explores one woman’s experience amid escalating violence against Indigenous tribes as they are pushed from their ancestral land”; I Could Live Here Forever by Hanna Halperin (Viking): “Like addiction, and codependence, and internalized misogyny, I Could Live Here Forever is a wrenching story that’s been lived and told before. Halperin does us a service by sharing her version of it, entertaining, warning and educating us with her all-too-accurate novel”; and Look at the Lights, My Love by Annie Ernaux (Yale Univ.): “Translated from the French with great intelligence and sensitivity by Alison Strayer, Look at the Lights, My Love is the sort of project that Ernaux has elsewhere called ‘something between literature, sociology and history.’”

Locus Magazine reviews Daphne by Josh Malerman (Del Rey: Ballantine): “While mental health, camaraderie, and the mixed feelings that come growing up and inhabit­ing the interstitial space between being a teenager and adulthood occupy a big part of this novel, it’s also very clearly a horror novel that brings to life (to…undeath?) a truly unique serial killer with a great origin story.”

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

Briefly Noted

Szilvia Molnar, author of The Nursery (Pantheon), describes her painful writing process in an interview with The Millions. 

CrimeReads talks to Disha Bose, Dirty Laundry (Ballantine), who makes a case for “complex characters of color,” and Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady (Harper; LJ starred review), who discusses the “art of historical fiction.”

Rory Carroll discusses the how and why of his new book, There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History (Putnam), with The Los Angeles Times. 

Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy (Random; LJ starred review), answers Lit Hub’s questionnaire.

Susanna Hoffs, author of This Bird Has Flown (Little, Brown), responds to the questions posed by the NYT “By the Book” questionnaire.

Kara Goucher, The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike’s Elite Running Team, written with Mary Pilon (Gallery), is featured on NYT’s “Inside the Best-Seller List.”

Lit Hub features a conversation between Yuko Tsushima, Woman Running in the Mountains (NYRB Classics), and Annie Ernaux, Look at the Lights, My Love (Yale Univ.), exploring a shared “passion for living in the present.”

Sulaiman Addonia, author of the 2020 book Silence Is My Mother Tongue (Graywolf), explains why her mother is the reader she’s “always wanted but may never have” in a piece for NYT. 

Entertainment Weekly shares an excerpt from Bridgerton-themed Queen Charlotte, by Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes (Avon).

Stylist Colin King has come out with a new book, Arranging Things, written with Sam Cochran (Rizzoli). The Hollywood Reporter has more.

The Booker Prize recommends Hilary Mantel’s 2006 book, Beyond Black (Picador), as an exploration of her “most personal preoccupations.”

Mary Jo McConahay, author of Playing God: American Catholic Bishops and The Far Right (Melville House), has a reading list to showcase “power and resistance in the Catholic Church.”

Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir (Ecco), shares the books she's reading for Lit Hub’s “The Annotated Nightstand.” 

Tor.com provides “Five SF Futures Where Teleportation Is Possible (But Not Necessarily Safe).”

CrimeReads lists “Five Nonfiction Books That Mix True Crime and History.”

Vulture shares “The Best Comedy Books of 2023 (So Far).”

Authors on Air

J Wortham, co-writer of the book Black Futures (One World), discusses “the power of changes” on the Thresholds podcast.

NPR’s Terry Gross interviews Clancy Martin about the subject of his book, How Not To Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind (Pantheon), on Fresh Air.

Admiral William H. McRaven shares insights from his new book, The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy) (Grand Central), in a conversation with Fox News.

Aaron Sachs explains the premise of his new book, Stay Cool: What Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change (NYU), in a conversation on the Keen On podcast.

Tiffany Clarke Harrison chats about “embracing the fragmentary in her new debut novel,” Blue Hour (Soft Skull), on the Otherppl podcast.

Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir (Ecco), expounds upon her process on “winnowing a life story (and the magic of dogs)” to Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review podcast.

20th Century Studios is adapting Beach Read by Emily Henry (Berkley) with Yulin Kuang as director, according to Deadline. Also, Orlando Bloom is set to star in and be a producer for a series adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s This Must Be the Place (Knopf). 

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