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Awards & News

Tor reports of a new Game of Thrones spinoff in the works at HBO, based around King Aegon. Variety has the exclusive.

Variety reports on a potential new 'Harry Potter' live action series at HBO Max.

James Patterson questions the NYT bestseller list, noting the absence of his book Walk the Blue Line (Little, Brown). LitHub reports. NY Post has more. 

The 2023 Tolkien Society Awards are announced. 

The 2023 Walter Scott Prize shortlist is announced.

The 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist is announced.

Reviews

NYT reviews Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy by Alex Mar (Penguin Pr.): “Unlike with many recent works of true crime, there is no tease of whodunit or a potential miscarriage of justice here: As Mar makes explicit in her prologue, ‘this is not a story of wrongful conviction’.”; Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang (Dutton): “The novel is a meditation on vanity, the ways in which the pursuit of physical beauty can betray the other sources of beauty in one’s life, and how horror can lurk beneath the surface of even the most poreless skin.”; The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China by James M Zimmerman (PublicAffairs; LJ starred review): “Zimmerman may not be a stylist, but he is a diligent researcher, and as a longtime resident of China, a shrewd observer of its politics.”; The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War by Chad L. Williams (Farrar): “By rendering this story in such rich archival detail, Williams’s book is a fitting coda to Du Bois’s unfinished history of Black Americans and the First World War.”; True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times by Robert Greenfield (Crown): “Greenfield’s book is faithful to Shepard’s life, while it skips like a stone along the surface.”

NPR reviews A Living Remedy: A Memoir by Nicole Chung (Ecco): “This book does not fill the void left behind by Chung's parents and others lost to our broken systems, but it provides a powerful remembrance and a path forward."

The Washington Post reviews All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel by Jeannie Marshall (Biblioasis): “Readers can agree or disagree with some of Marshall’s historical conclusions, or seek alternative interpretations of the artist’s choices, but that declaration of a point of view, that sense of personal experience in the face of great art and especially the right to have personal experience in the face of great art, proves to be as worthy a subject as the Sistine Chapel itself.”

LA Times reviews This Bird Has Flown by Susanna Hoffs (Little, Brown): “Hoffs understands this acutely, which is why This Bird Has Flown rings so true. Read it with the radio on.”

Briefly Noted

Joan Biskupic discusses her new book, Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences (Morrow), about “today’s polarized and polarizing Supreme Court,” with Shondaland.

Vogue has an interview with photographer Peggy Nolan, whose new book, Juggling is Easy (TBW), “captures the chaos of growing up.”

Timothy Egan writes about when the Klan ruled Indiana, in an excerpt from his new book, A Fever in the Heartland (Viking; LJ starred review), at CrimeReads. 

The Guardian has a feature profile of author Deborah Levy, whose new novel, August Blue (Farrar), arrives in June. 

The Millions spotlights the must-read poetry for spring. 

Bustle previews “The Most Anticipated Books Of Spring & Summer 2023.”

USA Today highlights new memoirs. 

LitHub shares 23 new books out today. 

Time has “14 New Books You Should Read in April.”

Tor previews new fantasy books for April. 

PopSugar shares 46 steamy romance novels. 

Mindy Kaling reveals “5 Books That Made a Difference,” at OprahDaily.

Time suggests “The Best Judy Blume Books to Read at Every Age.”

Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs (Norton), recommends “7 Climate Change Books That Inspire Action...and Even Hope,” for Earth month at OprahDaily. 

Authors On Air

NPR’s Fresh Air talks with Bart D. Ehrman, Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End (S. & S.; LJ starred review), and how “interpretations of the Book of Revelation have created disastrous problems.”

PBS Canvas highlights how George Bernard Shaw brought the “drama of healthcare” to the stage. 

Austin Butler will star in the film adaptation of Don Winslow’s City on Fire (Morrow; LJ starred review). Deadline reports. 

B as in Beauty by Alberto Ferreras (Grand Central), will be adapted as a series. Deadline reports. 

Deadline has news on negotiations for a film adaptation of Michael Mann’s Heat 2, co-written with Meg Gardiner (Morrow; LJ starred review).

Vulture applauds the casting of the forthcoming TV Mini Series, The Perfect Couple, based on the book by Elin Hilderbrand.

T&C previews a new adaptation of Henry Fielding’s novel Tom Jones, which premieres April, 30th on Masterpiece PBS. 

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