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Awards & News

The Crime Writers’ Association’s Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award has been awarded to Lynda La Plante and James Lee Burke, who will share the honors. The Guardian has coverage.

The Nielsen BookData Bestseller Awards are announced, with Elif Shafak, Peter James, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler among the winners. The Bookseller has coverage.

The 2024 Oscar Nominations are announced, with Oppenheimer, based on American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird, leading with 13 nominations. NYT has the latest.

ALA announced the 2024 Youth Media Awards on Monday. Dave Eggers wins the Newbery Medal for The Eyes and the Impossible, illus. by Shawn Harris (Yearling), and author and illustrator Vashti Harrison wins the Caldecott Medal for Big (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers). SLJ has full coverage. Publisher’s Weekly also reports. Today’s Shelf Awareness features an interview with Harrison.

Reviews

NYT reviews The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett (Atria): “It’s worth the trouble to pay close attention to this highly entertaining tale as you parse the evidence, invited to be an armchair sleuth alongside the characters”; Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton (Legacy Lit): “Madness, though ostensibly the story of Crownsville, is really about the continued lack of understanding, treatment and care of the mental health of a people, Black people, who need it most”; and Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock (Viking): “Ultimately, Legacy’s greatest contribution is in bringing this extraordinary family story to light—as much a part of the American fabric as those of our default narratives of success”; plus a paired review of two books about Auschwitz: Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story by Keren Blankfeld (Little, Brown) and Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József Debreczeni, tr. by Paul Olchváry (St. Martin’s).

LA Times reviews Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Knopf): “Any good novel balances the unruly mess of human behavior with the ostensible order fiction provides. The strength of Martyr! is that Akbar arranges its various messes well and doesn’t strive too hard to reconcile them.”

Briefly Noted

Common discusses his new book, And Then We Rise: A Guide to Loving and Taking Care of Self (HarperOne), with Shondaland. Stefanie Wilder-Taylor talks about her new memoir, Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol (Gallery). Jeanne Mackin, Picasso's Lovers (Berkley), talks about the women in the artist’s life. And Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex (Tor), shares her take on “the complexities of the found-family trope, and what makes an ending truly satisfying.”

LA Times highlights a new book about “original 'decolonizer” Franz Fanon: The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz (Farrar). 

Author David Grann talks with People about seeing his book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI adapted for the big screen. 

Slate talks with executive coach Brad Stulberg about his new book, Master of Change: How To Excel When Everything Is Changing—Including You (HarperOne).

ElectricLit chats with Jacqueline Alnes, author of The Fruit Cure: The Story of Extreme Wellness Turned Sour (Melville House), about “the challenge—and freedom—of writing an illness narrative that rejects inherited myths about healing and cures.”

Salon reflects on Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis by Alberto Toscano (Verso). 

Bustle has a Q&A with Alex Michaelides, whose latest book is The Fury (Celadon; LJ starred review). 

Vogue highlights the new design book, Karl Lagerfeld: A Life in Houses by Patrick Mauriès & Marie Kalt (Thames & Hudson).

People shares details about Madonna from Boy George’s new memoir, Karma: My Autobiography (Mango). 

Washington Post suggests five mystery novels for winter. 

NYT recommends four new romance books.

LitHub highlights 26 new books out this week. 

BookRiot has the best new releases of the week.

NYT shares seven yoga books as recommended by teachers.

The Millions writes about “The Enduring Influence of the Op-Ed.”

The Walrus comments on a spate of new multigenerational novels. 

The Atlantic’s “Books Briefing” explores the literature of exile.

Vox explains the Argylle authorship controversy.

Authors on Air

Kaveh Akbar talks with B&N’s Poured Over podcast about his new book, Martyr! (Knopf). 

Uché Blackstock discusses her new book, Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine (Viking), with NPR’s Fresh Air.

A new Jurassic World film is in the works, writes Hollywood Reporter. The original Jurassic Park film was based on the novel by Michael Crichton.

Ripley, a new adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s “Ripley” novels on Netflix, gets a trailer. Variety reports.

Antonia Hylton, Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum (Legacy Lit), will appear on CBS Mornings tomorrow.

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