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Awards & News

The Women’s Prize for Fiction announces its shortlist. The Guardian has coverage. Watch the announcement here. The winner will be named June 14th.

“Doggerland” by Kaliane Bradley wins the 2022 V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize. Locus reports. 

The League of Canadian Poets reveals their 2023 shortlists. CBC has coverage. 

The 2023 BC and Yukon Book Prizes finalists are announced. CBC reports.

The 2023 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing shortlist is announced.

The 2023 Atlantic Book Awards shortlists are announced.

Bon Appétit’s editor Dawn Davis resigns and rejoins Simon & Schuster. NYT has coverage. 

Reviews

The Washington Post reviews The Ferryman by Justin Cronin (Ballantine; LJ starred review): “The Ferryman grabs bits of stardust from several sci-fi classics. The trippy effect is like watching Inception on an airplane while the passenger next to you watches The Matrix without earphones.”; I Went To See My Father by Kyung-Sook Shin, trans. By Anton Hur (Astra House): “Those who can power through such moments will eventually be rewarded with quiet, tender exchanges between father and daughter, though readers seeking a brisk page turner should note that this is a slow and deeply interior novel, dense with memories that range from meaningful to mundane.”; Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936 to 1986 by James Rosen (Regnery): “Reading past the partisan biases, though, readers of all political stripes will find in this book an intriguing dissection of the conservative legal mind and the world in which it incubated during critical decades in American history.”; Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint by Lee Durkee (Scribner): “Durkee’s zeal proves infectious, and he keeps readers hooked with his dogged sleuth-work, his radical thoughts on authorship and his insightful potted histories of each portrait — some involving royal intrigue, unsolved murders and sinister coverups.”

NPR reviews House of Cotton by Monica Brashears (Flatiron): “House of Cotton is peculiar and slightly surreal, but also dazzling, full of surprises, and told with a voice that's unpredictable and, more importantly, that lingers.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Happy Place by Emily Henry (Berkley; LJ starred review), the top holds title of the week. Entertainment Weekly talks with Henry about how this book differs from her other novels.

Dennis Lehane talks about his new book, Small Mercies (Harper; LJ starred review), and “a dark chapter in his hometown’s history,” with Shondaland. 

Kelsy Burke discusses her book, The Pornography Wars: The Past, Present, and Future of America’s Obscene Obsession (Bloomsbury; LJ starred review), with LA Times. Also, Adam Sternbergh The Eden Test (Flatiron), talks about the "lengths to which a couple will go to save their marriage.”

Datebook interviews Dr. Abraham Verghese and calls his new book, The Covenant of Water (Grove; LJ starred review), a “heartfelt, capacious work of fiction.”

People talks with Laura Dern and her mother Diane Ladd about their new joint memoir, Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding) (Grand Central), and “things left unsaid.” AARP also shares details from the new memoir.

Lucinda Williams opens up about her new memoir, Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You (Crown), in an interview with People. Williams also talks with AARP about her “book, career and upcoming album, Stories From a Rock n Roll Heart.”

USA Today chats with Meghan Trainor about her new pregnancy book, Dear Future Mama: A TMI Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, and Motherhood from Your Bestie (Harper Horizon). 

Rainn Wilson discusses the inspiration behind his new book, Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution (Hachette Go), with USA Today. Shondaland also talks with Wilson about “anti-Christian bias in Hollywood, and why ‘spiritual but not religious’ is so wildly popular.

Vulture talks with Scott Aukerman about his latest book project, Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast (Abrams Image). 

NYT Magazine profiles author Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes (Farrar), and how she is “shaping a generation of Black thought.”

ElectricLit talks with poet Evie Shockley, suddenly we (Wesleyan Univ. Pr.; LJ starred review), about “what it is to be human, and seek humanity in these in-between times, through verse and vision.”

Joshilyn Jackson, With My Little Eye (Morrow), suggests 5 suspense novels set in the entertainment world, at CrimeReads.

EW shares a cover reveal of MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios. 

AARP has a new “Weekly Read.”

BBC considers “Why Judy Blume's taboo-breaking books 'get' teenagers like no others.”

OprahDaily shares 5 books mothers will enjoy.

BookRiot previews 25 romance books for summer.

NYT recommends 8 newly published books. 

The Guardian ranks the top ten aunts in fiction.

BookRiot offers a reading pathway for British Children’s book author Frances Hardinge.

ElectricLit shares “8 Novels Spotlighting Middle Eastern American Women.”

Editor Michael Denneny has died. NYT has an obituary. 

Authors On Air

Virginia Sole-Smith, author of Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture (Holt), discusses how diet culture hurts children, with NPR’s Fresh Air.

NPR’s Book of the Day talks with Dolly Parton about bullying and her new children’s book, Dolly Parton’s Billy the Kid Makes it Big (Penguin Workshop).

LitHub notes “10 Screen Adaptations Much, Much Worse Than The Books They’re Based On.”

Stephen L. Carter’s The Emperor of Ocean Park (Vintage), will get a series adaptation with MGM+. Deadline reports.

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