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Awards & Book News

Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting (Farrar; LJ starred review) is named the Nero Gold Prize Book of the Year, The Guardian reports. The Bookseller also has the news.

The shortlist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize is announced; Kirkus has coverage.

The longlist for Jhalak Prize for British writers of color is announced, The Bookseller reports.

The longlist for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is announced. CBC has coverage.

PEN International is among signatories of a joint statement on freedom of expression and the freedoms to read and publish, The Bookseller and Publishing Perspectives report.

Zando has launched a romance imprint called Slowburn, Shelf Awareness has the news.

Dan Wakefield, “multifaceted writer on a spiritual journey,” has died at 91; NYT has an obituary, as does LA Times.

Page to Screen

March 15

Arthur the King, based on Arthur: The Dog Who Crossed the Jungle To Find a Home by Mikael Lindnord. Lionsgate. Reviews | Trailer

One Life, based on One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton and the Prague Kindertransport by Barbara Winton. Warner Bros. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

Washington Post reviews The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade by Hannah Durkin (Amistad: HarperCollins; LJ starred review): “These flights of associational fancy sometimes get out of hand, but the successful ones work so well that a reader forgives the occasional misfire”; and The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez (Ecco): “The Great Divide joins novels by Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros and Gabriel García Márquez in deepening the people’s literary history of Latin America. Henriquez is a master of prose whose enchanting words capture the landscape”; plus a joint review of two new books by Pope Francis: Life: My Story Through History (HarperOne) and A Good Life: 15 Essential Habits for Living With Hope and Joy (Worthy).

NYT reviews Annie Bot by Sierra Greer (Mariner): “I worry this overview makes the novel sound like an artless women’s lib 101 survey or a broad sendup of toxic masculinity. But Greer’s novel is, in fact, a brilliant pas de deux, grappling with ideas of freedom and identity while depicting a perverse relationship in painful detail”; and the audiobook of The Silence in Her Eyes by Armando Lucas Correa (S. & S. Audio): “Despite the narrator Suehyla El-Attar Young’s best efforts at a theatrical reading, The Silence in Her Eyes never takes off. Correa’s characters are half-sketched; his emotional palette seems constrained to primary colors.”

LitHub highlights the best-reviewed books of the week.

Briefly Noted

Publishers Weekly shares how the audiobook for Brent Underwood’s Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley (Books on Tape) was recorded in an old mine shaft.

Jeremy Egner’s new book about Ted Lasso, Believe: The Untold Story Behind Ted Lasso, the Show That Kicked Its Way into Our Hearts, will be published by Dutton this fall, People reports.

Jon M. Chu will release a memoir, Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen, this summer, to be published by Random House. EW has the news.

LitHub talks to Katya Apekina, author of Mother Doll (Abrams).

Kirkus has a profile of Bora Chung, author of Your Utopia: Stories, tr. by Anton Hur (Algonquin).

Poet Kae Tempest, On Connection (Faber & Faber), takes The Guardian’s “The Books of My Life” survey.

Cathleen Schine, author of Künstlers in Paradise (Holt), answers Elle’s “Shelf Life” questionnaire.

NYT lists “7 New Books We Recommend This Week.”

CBC recommends eight Canadian books for readers who loved Shut Up You’re Pretty: Stories by Téa Mutonji (Arsenal Pulp Press).

LitHub shares historical fiction about “the founding mothers who helped build America.”

The Guardian selects “five of the best books inspired by classic novels.”

Authors on Air

NPR’s Fresh Air talks to Peter Pomerantsev, author of How To Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler (PublicAffairs).

Today, Fresh Air will interview Michael Cecchi-Azzolina, author of Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D’ (St. Martin’s).

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