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Awards & News

The 2023 NAACP Literary Image Award winners are announced, including Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Berkley; LJ starred review), and Finding Me by Viola Davis(HarperOne).  

Shortlists for the Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Awards are announced. 

The Daughters of Madurai by Rajasree Variyar (Union Sq. & Co.), is the March B&N book club pick.

Publishers Weekly recaps the ABA Winter Institute keynote session on how booksellers are responding to book banning and threats to reading. 

Rediscovered stories by Terry Pratchett will publish this fall in the U.K. The Guardian also reports. 

The Atlantic writes about why we need Judy Blume. 

Cartoonists weigh in on the Dilbert controversy, at NPR. 

Wired considers the onslaught of AI submissions in Sci-Fi publishing. 

Novelist Neal Stephenson steps into the metaverse with a new series of NFT's. LitHub has details. 

Reviews

NYT reviews Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction by Lynne Olson (Random): “The highlight of Olson’s book is her thrilling account of the rescue of the giant statues of Rameses II and the Abu Simbel temples from inundation by the Aswan High Dam.” And, Jamie MacGillivray: The Renegade's Journey by John Sayles (Melville House): “When folks from the film industry stoop to novel-writing, it’s natural to feel a bit queasy. John Sayles, though, is the real deal.” Also, We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds by Sally Adee (Hachette): “Adee has performed sterling service in persuading us to contemplate the benefits and possible implications of what seems our inevitable electric future.” And, Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist by Jennifer Wright (Hachette): “Whatever readers end up thinking of Madame Restell, they surely cannot miss the core lesson: that there has never been a culture in human history without abortion. The only variable has ever been the cost.” Plus, there are short reviews of three books.

NPR reviews Homestead by Melinda Moustakis (Flatiron): “Homestead is a beautiful novel, quiet as a snowfall, warm as a glowing wood stove. It's also a profound look at how we navigate one another, and what it means to reveal ourselves to the ones we care about…”

The Washington Post reviews The Courage To Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival by Ron DeSantis (Broadside): “a sometimes substantive, consistently scorn-filled work thick with contempt for ‘elites,’ a Democratic Party that he calls a ‘woke dumpster fire,’ ‘the legacy media,’ ‘Big Tech’ and much, much more.”

Briefly Noted

Esquire talks with Kathleen McLaughlin about her new book, Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America's Blood Industry (Atria/One Signal), and “what the plasma economy reveals about our frayed social safety net.”

LA Times talks with Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway about their new book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market (Bloomsbury). 

Jennifer Grey reflects on her memoir, Out of the Corner (Ballantine), published last year, with USA Today. 

FoxNews shares details from Princess Margaret’s lady-in-waiting, Anne Glenconner’s new memoir, Whatever Next?: Lessons from an Unexpected Life (Hachette). 

Entertainment Weekly has a preview and cover reveal of Rosie Danan’s forthcoming book, Do Your Worst (Berkley), due out November 14. 

LitHub shares 11 new books for the week. 

Authors Alma Katsu and Kathleen Kent discuss fiction writing and their careers in national security and intelligence at CrimeReads. 

Time discusses “The Trouble With the Rewrites to the James Bond Books.”

The Root's It's Lit suggests March releases by Black Authors.

PopSugar highlights new historical fiction and fantasy books.

The Atlantic recommends “Six Memoirs That Go Beyond Memories.”

Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity's Rainbow turns 50 this year; Esquire takes a look at the future it foretold.

On the 60th anniversary of The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, The Atlantic reassesses John le Carré’s legacy. 

NPR shares how a gift from a librarian changed one writer's life after a devistating flood.  

Authors On Air

NPR's Morning Edition talks with Katherine May about her latest book, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age (Riverhead).

Guillermo Del Toro will direct an animated adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant for Netflix. Tordotcom has details. 

Ryan La Sala's YA horror novel, The Honeys (PUSH), will be adapted for film. Deadline reports. 

Patricia Field, Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules (Dey Street), visits with Drew Barrymore today.

Hannah Fry, The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science (Norton) visits Kelly Clarkson.

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