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Awards & Buzzy Book News

The 2023 Wingate Prize shortlist is announced.

Two hundred journalists and writers have released an open letter to NYT about the paper’s “anti-trans bias,” Lit Hub reports.

Author Roxane Gay is named as one of the 2023 NRDC Climate Storytelling Fellowship recipients, as detailed by Deadline.

NYT announces the sale of the “oldest nearly complete Hebrew Bible” and further investigates the alleged murder of Pablo Neruda and looks more into his life and the mystery of his death.

Author John Hodgman makes a joking judgement on “gift etiquette for books” for the New York Times Magazine.

USA Today remembers “stars we lost” this year, including authors Russell Banks and Fay Weldon.

New Title Bestsellers

Links for the week: NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers | NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Sellers

Fiction

Encore in Death by J. D. Robb (St. Martin’s Griffin) begins at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers list.

Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes (Pamela Dorman) marches to No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers list.

Victory City by Salman Rushdie (Random) wins No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers list.

Unnatural History by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine) starts at No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers list.

The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson (S. & S.) originates at No. 13 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best-Sellers list.

Nonfiction

People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account by Mark Pomerantz (S. & S.) rises to No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Sellers list.

Bad Mormon: A Memoir by Heather Gay (Gallery: S. & S.) debuts at No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Sellers list.

Reviews

The Washington Post reviews The Laughter, by Sonora Jha (HarperVia): “An impressive performance, a disturbing character study of a man who views himself as the literal White knight in almost every scenario;” Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, by Benjamin Stevenson (Mariner): “A showoff of a novel, flaunting its erudite mastery of the conventions of Golden Age British mystery fiction in every twist, turn and red herring of its plot;” Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission To Bring Healing to Homeless People, by Tracy Kidder (Random): “A detailed portrait of the lives of homeless Americans. We hear about their backstories, their struggles, their hopes for the future. We come to understand their decisions to avoid shelters and the factors that conspire to deny them apartments of their own;” Saying It Loud: 1966—The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement by Mark Whitaker (S. & S.; LJ starred review): “The story moves across the nation and along cultural and political fronts, offering a fresh take on what Whitaker rightly describes as ‘the most dramatic shift in the long struggle for racial justice in America since the dawn of the modern Civil Rights era’”; and Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples from Destruction, by Lynne Olson (Random): “Tells her story well, embedding it in the history of modern Egyptian archaeology, though at times it does approach the hagiographic. This lack of shading can grow tiresome.”

Locus Magazine reviews The Citadel of Forgotten Myths, by Michael Moorcock (Gallery/Saga: S. & S.): “An entertaining and substantive addition to a series that has not always kept those two watchwords foregrounded. There is, perhaps inevitably, a bit of trickery to be acknowledged.”

Book Marks has “5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week.”

Briefly Noted

Davon Loeb engages in a roundtable discussion with BOMB magazine about the consideration of “intention and creation” in his new memoir, The In-Betweens (West Virginia Univ.).

Author Carmen Maria Machado writes about the “Best Sex I’ve Ever Read,” in the novella Thérèse and Isabelle by Violette Leduc (The Feminist Pr. at CUNY), in a series for Vulture.

Rebecca Makkai, author of I Have Some Questions for You (Viking), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questions.

NYT’s “Inside the Best-Seller List” profiles Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (St. Martin’s), and his observations of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

People announces two new memoirs to come out this year: The Half of It, by singer-songwriter Madison Beer (Harper), discussing “young fame and mental health,” and Real Housewives of New Jersey star Jackie Goldschneider’s The Weight of Beautiful (Gallery), about her “battle with anorexia.”

NYT explores “the marriage between democracy and capitalism” through several previously published and recent books, including: The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, by Martin Wolf (Penguin Pr.), The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us To Loathe Government and Love the Free Market, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway (Bloomsbury), and Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy, by Quinn Slobodian (Metropolitan: Holt).

Poets & Writers looks back on the work of Jennifer Maritza McCauley, author of When Trying To Return Home (Counterpoint).

Oprah Daily shares an excerpt of her newest Book Club pick, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain (Crown).

Tor.com has an excerpt from Leopoldo Gout’s Piñata (Tor Nightfire).

Poets & Writers describes “Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin” from their first page.

CrimeReads lists books as examples of “Turnpike Noir.”

NYT shares “newly published” books for the week.

Authors on Air

NPR’s It’s Been a Minute talks to romance author Rebekah Weatherspoon about “how she builds a world of desire” in books like A Thorn in the Saddle (Dafina: Random House).

The Keen On podcast features interviews with several authors this week, including: Martin Wolf of The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism (Penguin Pr.) on “why capitalism and democracy have fallen out of love;” Mark Jacobson on the subject of his book, No Miracles Needed: How Today’s Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air (Cambridge Univ.); John Cribb, author of Rail Splitter (Republic Book), expounding on “what Republicans and Democrats can learn from Abraham Lincoln;” and Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race To Save the Treasures of China’s Forbidden City (Atria) writer Adam Brookes talking about the true stories that have inspired his book.

N.K. Jemisin’s “Great Cities” series will be adapted for television by Walden Media, according to Tor.com.

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