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Awards & News

Claire Jiménez wins the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez (Grand Central; LJ starred review).

The Windham-Campbell Prizes are awarded to 8 writers, including Hanif Abdurraqib, Christina Sharpe, Kathryn Scanlan, and more.

The writer John Barth dies at age 93. NYT has an obituary and an appraisal of his work. 

Comic artist Ed Piskor dies at 41. Entertainment Weekly shares more about his life.

Fantasy author Kirk Dougal has died at age 57. Locus has more on the news.

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy will publish a two-part memoir this fall, Life and Law: The Early Years, due out from S. & S. on October 1. People reports.

Legendary musician Joan Baez will publish her first book of poetry, When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance (Godine), on April 30. Rolling Stone has the story.

LitHub reports on the fallout from the collapse of Small Press Publishing. Publishers Weekly reports on what comes next for clients.

Spotify’s new audiobook subscription plan, will expand to Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand on April 9. Publishers Lunch reports. 

OCLC has acquired the CloudLibrary platform. PW reports. 

Reviews

NPR reviews Lilith by Eric Rickstad (Blackstone): “Rickstad, with impeccable pacing and economy of language, delves deep into the gun culture that uses every school shooting as an excuse to celebrate guns and sell more guns.”

The Guardian reviews The Morningside by Téa Obreht (Random): "Obreht deals in big, topical and often brutal themes without ever sacrificing the artistry of her storytelling to preachiness or brute allegory."

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez (Forever: Grand Central; LJ starred review), the top holds title of the week.

LJ has new prepub alerts, including the September 2024 complete list. 

Vulture shares "The Best Books of 2024 (So Far)."

The Canadian Urban Libraries Council selected Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah (Other Pr.), as the One eRead Canada's annual book club pick. CBC reports.

Patric Gagne discusses his new book, Sociopath: A Memoir (S. & S.), with LA Times. 

Julia Alvarez, The Cemetery of Untold Stories (Algonquin), reflects on her 30-year publishing career, at People.

April Gibson, The Span of a Small Forever: Poems (Amistad), answers ten questions at Poets & Writers.

The Guardian highlights April’s best paperbacks. 

Former banker and Bachelorette alum, Jason Tartick, Talk Money to Me: The 8 Essential Financial Questions to Discuss With Your Partner (HarperCollins Leadership), talks about money and relationships with People. 

NYT features an interview with musician and author Alice Randall, whose latest book is My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future (Atria/Black Privilege Publishing).

Desiree S. Evans writes an appeal for Black Horror at CrimeReads.

CBC highlights "37 poetry collections to watch for in spring 2024."

Sandra Boynton talks to Slate about her latest book, Hippos Remain Calm (Boynton Bookworks), and why she wrote this sequel to her 1977 classic, Hippos Go Berserk! 

Rebel Wilson and her new memoir, Rebel Rising (S. & S.), are featured in NYT.

MMA champion Ronda Rousey discusses her new memoir, Our Fight, written with Maria Burns Ortiz (Grand Central), with People. 

BookRiot shares "7 Child Actor Memoirs To Read After Watching Quiet on Set."

Authors On Air

Percival Everett discusses his book James (Doubleday; LJ starred review), on PBS Canvas. 

Prime’s adaptation of Ed Brubaker’s Criminal comics series gets new directors. Reactor reports.

Shawn M. Warner’s TikTok famous Leigh Howard and the Ghosts of Simmons-Pierce Manor (Black Rose Writing), will be adapted for film and TV. Deadline reports. 

Cult comic book The Yellow M.by Edgar P. Jacobs, will get an English language, live-action adaptation. Deadline has the story.

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