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Book Clubs, Buzzy Books, & Awards

Oprah picks The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self by Martha Beck (The Open Field: PRH) for her book club. She interviewed Beck in a “Life You Want” class featuring the title. 

The March 2022 Loan Stars list is out, featuring top pick The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James (Berkley; LJ starred review), due out March 15th.

The Walter Scott Prize 2022 longlist is announced.

The 2022 Dell Award Winners are announced. Locus has details.

The German Book Prize names jurors. Publishing Perspectives has details.

Reviews

NYT reviews Love in the Time of Contagion: A Diagnosis by Laura Kipnis (Pantheon): “What a trip it would be if a medical doctor issued conclusions with the juice and style that Kipnis brings to her essays about intimacy, disgust and contamination (which might be three synonyms). People would probably go in for checkups more often.”

The Washington Post reviews Free Love by Tessa Hadley (Harper): “Free Love twists into a tragicomic exploration of how one woman’s erotic awakening revolutionizes her sense of who she is, what she must do and what that will cost.”

USA Today reviews Cost of Living by Emily Maloney (Holt), giving it 3.5 out of 4 stars: “Cost of Living is never less than bracingly real, whether Maloney’s subject is herself or the medical field she knows as both patient and professional. The book is sure to haunt your imagination the next time you enter the labyrinthine health care system and face the expenses, financial and otherwise.” And, The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman (Penguin Pr.; LJ starred review), giving it 3.5 out of 4 stars: “Serving up the moments and meanings of a modern decade in a few hundred pages is no easy task, but Chuck Klosterman has managed to boil a hearty stew of insight with his new book.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Abandoned in Death by J. D. Robb (St. Martin’s), the buzziest book of the week.

LA Times talks with Erich Schwartzel, Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy (Penguin Pr.), about “propaganda, censorship and the authoritarian playbook.”

Vulture has a Q&A with Chuck Klosterman about his new book, The Nineties: A Book (Penguin Pr.; LJ starred review). 

Brendan Slocumb discusses writing his novel, The Violin Conspiracy (Anchor), with LitHub.

David Guterson talks about "bearing witness" in his latest novel, The Final Case (Knopf), closely based on the death of Hana Williams, with a reporter who covered the case at Salon. 

Willow Smith announces debut novel, Black Shield Maiden, due out on October 4th from Penguin Random House. Popsugar has more.

Charles Dickens’s secret code is deciphered with the help of computer programmers. The NYT has the story. T&C also has coverage. 

Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty (Atria), takes Elle's Shelf Life literary survey.

Tara Westover, Educated (Random), takes Entertainment Weekly’s reading habits questionnaire.

CrimeReads writes about the darker side of Jane Austen.

Imani Perry, South to America (Ecco), recommends “Eight Books That Explain the South,” at The Atlantic. 

Bustle shares 10 new books for the week.

NYT shares newly published titles for the week.

The Millions releases its “Top Ten for January 2022” list.

The Guardian lists the top 10 single mothers in fiction.

 The Washington Post has a remembrance for Ashley Bryan. 

Authors On Air

NPR’s Fresh Air asks Jeremy W. Peters, Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted (Crown), how the Republican Party became the party of Trump?

NPR’s Morning Edition talks with Iceland’s first lady Eliza Reid about her new book, Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World (Sourcebooks).

NPR’s Code Switch chats about poetry, humor, and romance.

NPR’s All Things Considered talks with David S. Cecelski , author of The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War (Univ. of North Carolina Pr.), about Abraham Galloway, who “has been compared to James Bond and Malcolm X."

LitHub has a literary guide to the 2022 Oscar Nominations. 

Anthony Horowitz discusses his forthcoming Magpie Murders adaptation for PBS Masterpiece/BritBox at Deadline.

All the Secrets of the World by Steve Almond (Zando) will be adapted for television. Deadline has details.

Kelsey Barnard Clark, Southern Grit: 100+ Down-Home Recipes for the Modern Cook (Chronicle Books), will be on Live With Kelly and Ryan tomorrow.

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