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Awards, News & Booklists

The 2022 Premio Italia winners are announced. 

Canadian writer Esi Edugyan is named chair of the 2023 Booker Prize jury. CBC reports. 

BBC has “The 50 best books of the year 2022.”

The New Yorker reviews a year of sequels. 

EW shares “The best comic books of 2022.”

The Atlantic releases “The Atlantic 10: the books that made us think the most this year.”

HipLatina has “15 of the Best Books by Latinx Authors Published This Year.”

ElectricLit lists “Recommended Reading’s 10 Most Popular Posts of 2022.”

CrimeReads highlights the best traditional mysteries and the best gothic fiction of 2022.

LitHub shares 103 best book covers of 2022. 

USA Today announces best-seller list’s hiatus. 

RBmedia will publish Lee & Low audiobooks. Publishers Lunch reports.

NYT reports: “A Fast-Growing Network of Conservative Groups Is Fueling a Surge in Book Bans.”

Reviews

The Washington Post reviews Grime by Sibylle Berg, tr. by Tim Mohr (St. Martin’s Griffin): “Winner of the 2019 Swiss Book Prize, this is a novel so caustic it should be printed with hydrochloric acid. Berg, a Swiss writer and social activist, sprays her fury across the whole landscape of technological and economic manias that are rendering the 21st century intolerable”; Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America by Nadia Abu El-Haj (Verso): “El-Haj is an academic, and her book amounts to a brave act of scholarship. But at its best moments, Combat Trauma also musters a rhetorical force reminiscent of past public intellectuals like Hannah Arendt”; and Movie Dad: Finding Myself and My Family, On Screen and Off by Paul Dooley (Applause Bks.): “Adapted from Dooley’s well-received one-man show of the same title, it is audience-tested, with career-spanning anecdotes that are funny and sometimes dishy.” Plus, there are reviews of a trio of audiobooks: Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono, read by the author (Penguin Random House Audio); The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan, read by the author (S. & S.); and Chuck Berry: An American Life by RJ Smith, read by Phil Morris (Hachette Audio). 

LA Times reviews Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon by Kate Andersen Brower (Harper; LJ starred review): “A rambling commemorative, the sort of tribute album that you get at a memorial service (with a dash of drug use thrown in for plausibility). And this too is not criminal.”

BookMarks has “The Best Reviewed Short Story Collections of 2022.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Into the West by Mercedes Lackey (DAW), the top library holds title of the week. 

LJ’s Barbara Hoffert has new Prepub Alerts for contemporary pop fiction and contemporary pop debuts, plus a preview of Annie Ernaux’s latest book. 

AARP has a new weekly read. 

Shondaland talks with Bushra Rehman, author of Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion (Flatiron), about “imagery, growing up in Queens, the joys and pitfalls of the 1980s, and more.”

FoxNews talks with Patty Sullivan, author of the new book Betty White’s Pearls of Wisdom: Life Lessons from a Beloved American Treasure (Forefront Bks.). 

The Guardian considers “why romance novels are the biggest they’ve been for 10 years.”

The Washington Post reflects on the stories of “A Christmas Story” author Jean Shepherd.

LA Times touts Jenna Bush Hager’s stature in publishing.

The Atlantic asks: “Why Read Literary Biography?”

Parade has a guide to reading Louise Penny’s “Three Pines” novels in order. 

NYT highlights four newly published books. 

Vulture recommends six books for December. 

Buzzfeed suggests new winter romances. 

LA Times laments a literary magazine’s closure in “A (hopefully premature) obituary for Bookforum and the magazines that connect us.”

LitHub honors notable literary deaths in 2022.

Authors on Air

NPR’s Morning Edition talks with outgoing literature ambassador Jason Reynolds about the “importance of young people's stories and fostering a love of reading.”

NPR’s Fresh Air talks with Adam Hochschild about his book American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis (Mariner; LJ starred review).

Shadow & Act talks with playwright Branden Jacob-Jenkins about the series adaptation of Kindred, based on the book by Octavia Butler.

BookRiot previews 2023 adaptations. 

Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Flatiron), will be on The Jennifer Hudson Show tomorrow. 

Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times (Crown), visits Kelly Clarkson tomorrow. 

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