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Awards & Book News

Catherine Leroux’s The Future, tr. by Susan Ouriou (Biblioasis), is selected as the 2024 Canada Reads book. Publishing Perspectives and CBC have the news.

Kathryn Scanlan wins the Gordon Burn Prize for Kick the Latch (New Directions). The Guardian and The Bookseller have coverage.

The shortlist is announced for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, for books published by small presses. Kirkus has the news.

Shortlists are announced for the British Book Awards 2024 Book of the Year. BBC and Publishing Perspectives have coverage.

Shortlists are announced for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for books that showcase the breadth of Arab culture around the world.

The longlist is announced for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction; People has the announcement.

Kate Mosse, cofounder of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, announces a sister prize, the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction, The Guardian reports.

Akira Toriyama, creator of manga including the “Dragon Ball” series, dies at 68. NYT has an obituary.

Page to Screen

March 8

Accidental Texan, based on the novel Chocolate Lizards by Cole Thompson. Roadside Attractions. Reviews | Trailers

Reviews

NYT reviews the audiobook of North Woods by Daniel Mason (Books on Tape): “Mason’s historical fiction advertises a singular strength of the form: alchemizing an ensemble of distinct voices into a harmonious, deeply resonant whole”; and story collections by Bora Chung, Rafael Frumkin, and Laird Hunt “that show just how strange life can be.”

Washington Post reviews Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson by James Marcus (Princeton Univ.): “Marcus’s passion for his subject and his understanding of what makes a successful biography mean this book is delightful for any reader, however much (or little) they previously know about Emerson. He provides deep analysis of the essays without ever lapsing into an academic tone”; The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells: Investigations into a Forgotten Mystery Writer by Rebecca Rego Barry (Post Hill): “Even while using standard academic endnotes, Barry simultaneously employs scores of footnotes, indicated by Roman numerals in her text, to insert her own, often sassy comments on the mores and attitudes of 100 years ago”; James by Percival Everett (Doubleday; LJ starred review): “Rather than merely discard Jim’s dialect, Everett makes it central to the story”; White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy by Tom Schaller & Paul Waldman (Random): “The authors don’t ask skeptics to take their word for it; the book is ‘not intended to be mere polemic,’ they say, so they stuff the chapters with empirical data, citing dozens of polls and studies”; and a new wave of dark-comedy crime novels by Katy Brent, Alexia Casale, and Ren DeStefano in which women take on bad men.

NPR reviews poetry collections by Monica McClure, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Diane Seuss that “take the poetic measure of America in the aftermath of the pandemic.”

LitHub rounds up the best-reviewed books of the week.

Briefly Noted

Washington Post interviews Philippa Gregory, “reigning queen of Tudor romance” and author of the forthcoming nonfiction book Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History (HarperOne).

Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back (Ballantine; LJ starred review), answers The Guardian’s “The Books of My Life” questionnaire.

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón will visit seven national parks for her “You Are Here” project, which will bring art installations and poetry to the parks. Kirkus has the news.

After previously calling Audible bad for authors, Brandon Sanderson announces that he has a new deal to bring his “Secret Projects” books to the platform, Publishers Weekly reports.

NYT selects six paperbacks to read this week and “9 new books we recommend this week.”

CrimeReads has “7 modern gothics featuring an intersectional feminist perspective.”

Publishers Weekly rounds up six new books about mothers and motherhood.

LitHub highlights “7 Great Vacation and Road Trip Rom-Coms For Your TBR Pile.”

Reactor gathers all the new horror, romantasy, and other SFF-crossover books arriving in March.

Authors on Air

Laura Dave’s forthcoming mystery novel, The Night We Lost Him (S. & S./Marysue Rucci), is being adapted for Netflix, Deadline reports.

A film adaptation for Daniel Kraus’s Whalefall (MTV Bks.; LJ starred review) is in the works at 20th Century Fox; Deadline has the news.

NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Ed Zwick, author of Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood (Gallery).

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