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Awards & News

The 2022 Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists are announced. CBC, Quille & Quire, and The Canadian Press all have coverage. 

The 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medals longlist is announced. Winners will be announced during ALA’s LibLearnX on Sunday, January 29, at 4:30 p.m. Central.

The Christy Awards finalists are announced. Winners will be announced on November 17. 

The Center for Fiction awards Editor-in-Chief of Riverhead Books, Sarah McGrath with the 2022 Medal for Editorial Excellence.

Vivian Gornick will receive the 2023 Hadada Award from The Paris Review.

Emmy-nominated producer and activist Padma Lakshmi is named master of ceremonies for the 2022 National Book Awards.

The Women’s Prize for Fiction names judges for 2023. 

LitHub rounds up the literary news from the New York Comic Con.

“Angela Lansbury, Star of Film, Stage and ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ Dies at 96.” NYT has an obituary. 

Reviews

The Washington Post reviews Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman by Allison Gilbert and Julia Scheeres (Seal Pr.): “What emerges is a portrait of an amiable populist who at her peak reached 20 million readers (‘double the number of current subscribers to the New York Times,’ as the authors put it).” And The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken (Ecco): “Feel free to stop here and pretend I am pressing the slim hardcover into your hands, saying, ‘Don’t look at the jacket copy; just read.’”

NYT reviews Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse by Maya Phillips (Atria): “Nerds, Phillips implies, can define ourselves not just by what we like but by what we need: If you require superheroes and anime characters in order to make sense of your own life, if you refer to them unprompted and seek out others who love them, you might be a nerd, no matter how many other people read the same books or attend the same conventions.”

The Guardian reviews Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman by Alan Rickman (Holt): “If there’s one thing to be gleaned from Rickman’s diaries, it’s that he was not one to bask in his successes.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for top holds title Long Shadows, by David Baldacci (Grand Central). 

NYT Magazine has a feature on poet Sharon Olds and her latest collection, Balladz (Knopf).

People talks with pro BMX athlete Nigel Sylvester about the new photography book that captures his trips around the world: Nigel Sylvester: GO, photog. by Harrison Boyce (Rizzoli).

Entertainment Weekly shares details from The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series by Jessica Radloff (Grand Central; LJ starred review). People also has revelations from the new book.

LA Times talks with Dani Shapiro about her long-awaited novel Signal Fires (Knopf).

Geena Davis opens up about childhood trauma, her film career, and her new memoir, Dying of Politeness (HarperOne), with Vanity Fair.

Tor.com shares an excerpt from Singer Distance by Ethan Chatagnier (Tin House), due out next week.

Bernardine Evaristo leads a literary tour of London for NYT.

USA Today suggests 10 horror books for spooky season.

The Millions shares notable new releases.

Bustle recommends 10 must-reads for the week. 

The Guardian names the top 10 road novels. 

Authors On Air

NPR’s All Things Considered talks with Roger Bennett about how he and his co-writers Miranda Davis and Michael Davies chose which players to profile in their new book, Men in Blazers Present Gods of Soccer: The Pantheon of the 100 Greatest Soccer Players (According to Us), illus. by Nate Kitch (Chronicle Prism).

NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour calls Lena Dunham’s Catherine Called Birdy film adaptation, based on the novel by Karen Cushman, “a delight.”

PBS Canvas speaks with journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault about her new book My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives (Harper: HarperCollins).

Emily Henry’s People We Meet on Vacation (Berkley; LJ starred review) will be adapted for film. Deadline reports.

Kalani Pickhart’s award winning debut novel I Will Die in a Foreign Land (Two Dollar Radio) is being developed for the big screen. Deadline reports.

Constance Wu, author of the memoir Making a Scene (Scribner), visits The View today.

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