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Awards & Book News

The longlist for the Dublin Literary Award is announced.

Margaret Atwood is named commander in French Order of Arts and Letters; CBC has the news.

Scotiabank Giller Prize to feature 2023 longlisted writers in an online book club, CBC reports.

“Poet and memoirist Brian Brett, known for signature humor and ruminations on nature, dead at 73.” CBC has an obituary.

Page to Screen

January 19

Beautiful Wedding, based on the novel A Beautiful Wedding by Jamie McGuire. Wattpad Studios/Voltage Pictures. Reviews | Trailer

The End We Start From, based on the novel by Megan Hunter. Republic Pictures. Reviews | Trailer

Origin, based on Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson. Neon. Reviews | Trailer

Which Brings Me to You, based on the novel by Steve Almond & Julianna Baggott. Anonymous Content/BCDF Pictures. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

Washington Post reviews A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900–1960 by Nikhil Krishnan (Random): “Despite the sheer entertainment available in A Terribly Serious Adventure, readers will want to slow down for its denser pages outlining erudite theories or explaining category mistakes and other specialized terms.”

NYT reviews Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Knopf): “In Cyrus, Akbar has created an indelible protagonist, haunted, searching, utterly magnetic. But it speaks to Akbar’s storytelling gifts that Martyr! is both a riveting character study and piercing family saga.” NYT also has a feature on Akbar.

LitHub selects “5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week” and the best-reviewed books of the week.

Briefly Noted

Electric Lit speaks with KB Brookins about their poetry collection Freedom House (Deep Vellum) and forthcoming memoir Pretty (Knopf).

LA Times features Rosa Lowinger and her memoir Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair (Row House) and Katherine Min and her posthumous novel The Fetishist (Putnam). Washington Post also runs a feature on Katherine Min.

NPR talks to cartoonist Joe Sacco about the resurgence in popularity of his graphic novel Palestine, first published 30 years ago.

Novelist Thomas Keneally, author of A Bloody Good Rant: My Passions, Memories and Demons (Allen & Unwin), answers The Guardian’s “The Books of My Life” questionnaire.

Vogue has an interview with Gabrielle Korn, author of the novel Yours for the Taking (St. Martin’s).

Shondaland talks to Marie-Helene Bertino about her novel Beautyland (Farrar).

Publishers Weekly interviews Stephen Strang, the evangelical publisher atop Charisma Media, about religious books.

HipLatina recommends “20 Books by Latinx Authors Coming Out in 2024 You Need To Read.”

NYT highlights “9 New Books We Recommend This Week” and “6 Paperbacks to Read This Week.”

Washington Post has samples of their favorite audiobooks of the month.

The Guardian selects five of the best postcolonial novels.

Book Riot lists nine books to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Mean Girls.

Kirkus suggests “Start Your 2024 TBR List with These Titles.”

The University of Exeter is translating Ukrainian war poetry in English for publication online; BBC has coverage.

Authors on Air

Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan has optioned S.C. Gwynne’s book Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (Scribner), Deadline reports.

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