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Golden Globe Nominees & News

The 81st Annual Golden Globes nominees are announced, with several literary adaptations in the mix, including: Oppenheimer, based on American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird; Killers of the Flower Moon, based on Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann; Wonka, based on characters by Roald Dahl; American Fiction, based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett; The Zone of Interest, based on the novel by Martin Amis; and Poor Things, based on the novel by Alasdair Gray. 

Also included are All of Us Strangers, based on the novel by Taichi Yamada; Nyad, based on the autobiography Find a Way: The Inspiring Story of One Woman’s Pursuit of a Lifelong Dream by Diana Nyad; Priscilla, based on the memoir Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N’ Roll by Priscilla Presley and Sandra Harmon; and The Color Purple, based on the book by Alice Walker. 

Television adaptations include: Lessons in Chemistry, based on the book by Bonnie Garmus; Daisy Jones & The Six, based on the book by Taylor Jenkins Reid;  All the Light We Cannot See, based on the novel by Anthony Doerr;  Fellow Travelers, based on a novel by Thomas Mallon; and White House Plumbers, based on the book Integrity by Egil Krogh and Matthew Krogh. 

Jennifer Finney Boylan is elected president of PEN America, NYT reports. 

Judy Clain will join Simon & Schuster to relaunch Summit Books imprint, Publishers Weekly reports. Publishers Lunch also has coverage.

Earlyword’s December GalleyChat spreadsheet is out now.

Reviews

NPR reviews Prophet Song by Paul Lynch (Atlantic Monthly): “At times, the novel’s relentless bleakness made it almost unbearable to read. And yet its plausibility kept me from looking away”; and three coffee table gardening books: The English Gardener’s Garden (Phaidon; LJ starred review), Du Pont Gardens of the Brandywine Valley phot. by Larry Lederman, text by Marta McDowell (Monacelli), and Garden: Exploring the Horticultural World (Phaidon). 

NYT reviews Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel by Shahnaz Habib (Catapult): “Interestingly for a book that takes its title from an iPhone setting, Airplane Mode doesn’t much discuss how little super-compasses like Google Maps, Yelp and their ilk have Changed Everything Forever when it comes to travel. But in an era when souvenirs are all but obsolete, every trinket on Earth available in a click, it’s a lovely little snow globe, shaking up hardened perceptions.”

Briefly Noted

LitHub highlights the best book covers of the year.

CBC names the best Canadian poetry and the best Canadian comics of 2023.

BookRiot offers a preview of 36 titles for the new year and the best self-help books for 2024.

LitHub shares 11 newly released titles this week.

Bustle talks with writer Ottessa Moshfegh about “Depop, scouring YouTube for certain frequencies, and her husband’s popcorn talents.” The film adaptation of her novel Eileen is out now.

NYT appreciates two new books by and about American poet Anthony Hecht: Collected Poems of Anthony Hecht: Including Late and Uncollected Work by Anthony Hecht, ed. by Philip Hoy (Knopf), and Late Romance: Anthony Hecht—a Poet’s Life by David Yezzi (St. Martin’s).

ElectricLit has an interview with Nathan Hill, author of Wellness (Knopf: LJ starred review).

Entertainment Weekly shares its 2023 pop culture holiday gift guide, including several bookish suggestions.

SNP councillor Glen Reid plans to ask Cambridge University Library return Scotland’s oldest surviving manuscript, Book of Deer. The Guardian reports. 

T&C suggests 27 etiquette books.

PopSugar shares 16 cozy fantasy books, 15 books with dragons, and 15 books about pirates. 

The Atlantic highlights “Seven Books Rooted in the Natural World.”

BookRiot offers a reading pathway for romance novelist Tracey Livesay.

An unpublished poem by Raymond Chandler will be printed in the 25th-anniversary issue of Strand Magazine. NPR reports. 

Authors On Air

Amy Adams will star in and executive produce the adaptation of Graham Moore’s “The Holdout” series. Deadline reports. 

ALA’s Call Number podcast features 2023 author chats.

A new Paddington musical adaptation, based on the books by Michael Bond, is in the works, Variety reports. BBC also has coverage.

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