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Awards & News

The literary NAACP Image Awards are announced, ahead of the televised awards show on March 16. Winners include Elizabeth Acevedo, Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer, Darrin Bell, Krystle Zara Appiah, and more.

The International Booker Prize 2024 longlist is announced. The Guardian has coverage.

Kylie Needham wins the 2024 MUD Literary Prize.

Domenico Di Rosa wins the 2024 Peter Nicholls Essay Prize.

The Otherwise Award is going on hiatus, Locus reports. 

ALA cancels LibLearnX 2026. 

Al Pacino will release a memoir, Sonny Boy (Penguin Pr.), in October, Deadline reports. Pacino reflects on the forthcoming book in an exclusive with People.

A book banning effort fails in Nebraska, USA Today reports. 

Associated Press reports on libraries’ “struggle to afford the demand for e-books” and efforts to and seek new state legislation.

Zando will launch the new romance imprint Slowburn. Publishers Weekly has the story.

Abrams will sell and distribute Red Comet Press. Shelf Awareness reports.

CamCat Publishing announced the death of its founder, publisher, and CEO, Sue Arroyo. 

Reviews

NYT reviews Wild Houses by Colin Barrett (Grove): “In Colin Barrett’s nimble hands—save for the occasional adverb so obtrusive and unnecessary it muddies what it’s supposed to make clear—the lives of a small collective of mournful souls become vibrant before us, and their yearning is depicted with wistfulness, no small amount of humor and one dangerously ill-tempered goat”; Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “the Apocalypse” by Emily Raboteau (Holt): “The strength of her book is her willingness to express concerns that many feel but are reluctant to voice”; Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below by Jane Kamensky (Norton): “This book is a labor of empathy that refuses to simplify or valorize its subject”; and Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham (Hogarth): “Great Expectations, Vinson Cunningham’s brolic and dazzlingly written debut novel, transports us to that time, when America’s most valuable commodity was proximity—real or perceived; burgeoning or dimming—to the soon-to-be president.”

Washington Post reviews A Very Private School: A Memoir by Charles Spencer (Gallery): “As an individual testimony to the abuse that scarred a lifetime and hobbled his marriages, it is a tour de force. How many other men at the top of British society, Spencer leaves us wondering, are carrying similar scars?”; Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel (Viking): “The novel resists sports storytelling tropes: that scrappiness is often a match for skill bought by time spent training; that the course of the winner’s life will be altered by the event of winning”; and 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan (Penguin Pr.; LJ starred review): “Wisely, Kaplan instead uses his book to contextualize a handful of landmark jazz recordings, the better to enrich the reader’s experience when they next revisit the timeless Kind of Blue and Davis’s associated releases.”

Briefly Noted

NYT previews 27 works of fiction and 17 works of nonfiction for spring. 

LitHub highlights new books for the week.

BookRiot suggests new books out this week. 

ElectricLit shares “7 Novels About African Women in All Their Complexities.”

CBC suggests 8 Canadian books for fans of Carley Fortune’s Meet Me at the Lake (Berkley). 

BookRiot rounds up 13 book club picks for March. PW also highlights March book club titles.

LA Times talks with Katya Apekina about her new book, Mother Doll (Abrams).

Esquire asks: “Is It A Betrayal To Publish Dead Writers’ Books?”

Margot Douaihy, Blessed Water (Gillian Flynn Bks.), writes about “the power of siblings in mysteries and thrillers,” at CrimeReads. 

Author and actor and brother to Frank McCourt, Malachy McCourt, dies at 92. NYT has an obituary. Entertainment Weekly has a remembrance. 

Authors on Air

David Nicholls’s debut novel Starter For Ten, has been adapted as a stage musical. BBC has the story. 

Time has an interview with Nicholas Sparks about the legacy of his best seller, The Notebook, as its musical adaptation comes to Broadway.

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