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Awards & News

Netflix’s 4 part miniseries, All The Light We Cannot See, based on the Pulitzer prize winning book by Anthony Doerr, will premiere November 2nd. Entertainment Weekly has coverage. Watch the trailer here.

Will Richter wins the 2023 CBC Short Story Prize. 

The 2023 Jhalak Prize shortlists are announced.  

Margaret Busby is named the new president of PEN. The Guardian has coverage. 

Netflix will end its DVD-by-mail service. PBS Canvas reports. 

Shondaland has “What to Read for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2023.”  LJ also has suggestions.

Reviews

NYT reviews Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding) by Laura Dern and Diane Ladd (Grand Central): “For readers, it may depend on what we come for. I recommend going into Honey, Baby, Mine curious about the origin stories, separate and intertwined, of two prolific artists who pushed through private challenges — are pushing through still — while forging lives in the public eye.”

The Washington Post reviews The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann (Doubleday): “The Wager is unadorned, almost pure, horror-filled plot, without the usual Grannian first-person moments, a tightly written, relentless, blow-by-blow account that is hard to put down, even as there are sometimes frustrating narrative gaps, a result of the limits of nonfiction grappling with 280-year-old events.”

LA Times reviews The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel (Riverhead): “Few authors can do what she does, seemingly effortlessly: spin saucy yet kind-spirited social satire while exploring a multitude of topical and archetypal subjects — all within a single work, all in sentences that sing.”

Autostraddle reviews Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante (Arsenal Pulp Pr.): “despite charting Tracy’s transition to a degree, it isn’t about her transition. Her journey — finding a way to understand and express herself, figuring out how to love imperfect people and be loved as one, reckoning with the passage of time and the irretrievability of the past — is universal.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Simply Lies by David Baldacci (Grand Central), the top holds title of the week. 

LJ’s Barbara Hoffert has new prepub alerts.

LA Times talks with Orlando Ortega-Medina about his “dual life in law and literature, the genesis of his latest novel, The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants (Amble Pr.). 

Molly Ringwald talks with Shondaland about translating My Cousin Maria Schneider: A Memoir by Vanessa Schneider (Scribner). Ling Ling Huang shares how she channeled her experience as a violinist into her new book, Natural Beauty (Dutton). And, Katy Simpson Smith, The Weeds (Farrar), reflects on “the line between scientific observation and anecdote, being a woman in academia, and the way we preserve our memories.

Lydia Davis will not sell her next book on Amazon. The Guardian reports. 

NYT spotlights Chita: A Memoir by Chita Rivera (HarperOne), and talks with actress Laura Benanti, and John Kander, who calls Rivera “a composer’s blessing.”

USA Today highlights Bono’s Surrender Tour, in which he “present passages from the book threaded with reframed versions of several U2 songs.”

PageSix teases a forthcoming memoir from Serena Williams. 

Seattle Times highlights a forthcoming memoir from Liz Cheney. Little, Brown & Co. will publish Oath and Honor November 14. 

Parade explores why Judy Blume “stands the test of time.”

People shares an exclusive excerpt from Madison Beer's new memoir, The Half of It  (Harper). 

Sara Petersen, author of the forthcoming Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture (Beacon Pr.), explains why "moms on Instagram love minimalism," at Time. 

Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander (MCD: Farrar), pens an essay for Esquire considering whether climate fiction can promote useful change.

Gizmodo previews Seanan McGuire's forthcoming titles, Sleep No More and The Innocent Sleep, both out this fall from DAW. 

NYT suggests 8 newly published books. 

HipLatina highlights “13 Powerful Memoirs by Latina Authors.”

BookRiot recommends 8 books by disabled poets. 

ElectricLit shares “7 Books About Women Fighting for Survival.”

Authors On Air

David Grann talks about his new book, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Doubleday), with NPR’s Fresh Air.

Bret Easton Ellis’s The Shards (Knopf) will be adapted as an HBO series. Deadline has details.

Variety reports on how T.J. Newman “sparked a Hollywood bidding war”, for her forthcoming book, Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421 (Avid Reader: S. & S.). 

Apple TV+’s series City on Fire, based on the book by Garth Risk Hallberg, released a new trailer. 

Anthony Chin-Quee, I Can’t Save You: A Memoir (Riverhead), will visit Tamron Hall tomorrow.

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