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Awards & Buzzy Book News

Preti Taneja wins the 2022 Gordon Burn Prize for Aftermath (Transit). 

The 2022 T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist is announced.

NYT profiles Fitzcarraldo Edition, the British publisher behind three Nobel Laureates. Also, an examination of the court papers of Geoffrey Chaucer.

Book Riot remembers Angela Landsbury and her “bookish life.”

A letter by John Steinbeck to his son has been sold for thousands of dollars, according to The Seattle Times. 

NYPL Blog provides “Fun Halloween Reads for Scaredy Cats.”

Page to Screen

October 14:

Stars at Noon, based on the book by Denis Johnson. A24. Reviews | Trailer

All Quiet on the Western Front, based on the book by Erich Maria Remarque. Netflix. Reviews | Trailer

Rosaline, based on the book When You Were Mine by Rebecca Serle. Hulu. Reviews | Trailer

Shantaram, based on the book by Gregory David Roberts. Apple TV+. No reviews | Trailer

High School, based on the book by Tegan and Sarah. Freevee. No reviews | Trailer

Mismatched, based on the book When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon. No reviews | Trailer

October 15:

The Little Lies We All Tell, based on the manga series by Madoka Kashihara. Crunchyroll. No reviews | Trailer

October 16:

Magpie Murders, based on the book series by Anthony Horowitz. PBS. Reviews | Trailer

October 18:

Three Wishes for Cinderella, based on a fairy tale by Božena Něvcová. Shout! Studios. No reviews | Trailer

October 19:

The Good Nurse, based on the book by Charles Graeber. Netflix. Reviews | Trailer

The School for Good and Evil, based on the book by Soman Chainani. Netflix. No reviews | Trailer

October 20:

One of Us Is Lying, based on the book by Karen M. McManus. Peacock. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

NYT reviews Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin, trans. by Megan McDowell (Riverhead): "Arranged as peepholes into the private lives of others, each of these seven stories centers on a domestic dwelling, exploring how the things that constitute our most intimate spaces are relational and interconnected, and therefore in many ways the most unstable." Also, Life Is Everywhere by Lucy Ives (Graywolf): "a dizzyingly labyrinthine work of speculative metafiction that seems to take on, as its title suggests, everything." And, two short reviews on new translated books "about language, fairy tales and the paths we don't pursue" including Babel by R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager) and The Anchored World: Flash Fairy Tales and Folklore by Jasmine Sawers (Rose Metal). 

The Washington Post reviews Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro (Knopf): “doesn’t shy away from loss but seeks to balance grief with grace.”

The Los Angeles Times reviews Liberation Day: Stories by George Saunders (Random): “As in his earlier work, Saunders’ relentlessly humane vision of life, always in comic search of our deepest negations of each other, is remarkably vivid. But his innovations as an artist have waned into repetitions; and genius is an erratic visitor.”

Slate reviews Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain by Charles Leerhsen (S. & S.): “It was success that destroyed Bourdain, according to Leerhsen, in the classic downfall scenario beloved by the sort of indie rock fan who prefers every band before they got big. Hooked on the public’s love, Bourdain sold his soul to keep it, grinding out episode after episode of his travelogue series even though he kept saying that he wanted to quit.”

Book Marks shares "the Best Reviewed Books of the Week."

Briefly Noted

Shondaland chats with Fatimah Asghar about “the complex ties of sisterhood and the weight of grief in their debut novel," When We Were Sisters (One World). Also, a conversation with Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of A Minor Chorus (Norton; LJ starred review), on “finding friendship, joy, and ultimately connection in Northern Alberta.”

Prince Shakur “unravels his father’s murder while reckoning with the legacy of toxic masculinity” in his book When They Tell You to Be Good (Tin House; LJ starred review). Electric Lit has the interview. 

Nada Alic talks about what inspired her story collection, Bad Thoughts: Stories (Vintage) with CBC Books. 

NYT interviews Barbara Kingsolver about her newest book, Demon Copperhead (Harper), "a tale set in Souther Appalachia [bringing] humanity and humor to a region and people who have long endured exploitation and condescension."

Anthony Sattin takes "a deep dive into the nomadic way of life" with his book Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World (Norton) in an interview with NYT. 

Joshua Prager, author of The Family Roe: An American Story (W. W. Norton), talks to NPR about “the forgotten story of Jane Roe.”

People shares revelations from The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series by Jessica Radloff (Grand Central; LJ starred review). Also, how Kaley Cuoco felt supported by her costars during her divorce.

People explores Paul Newman’s “heartbreak over son’s addiction” in his memoir, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man (Knopf; LJ starred review). Entertainment Weekly also details Paul Newman’s relationship with his second wife. Vanity Fair also covers this story. Plus, an excerpt from Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me by Ralph Macchio (Dutton).

NYT revisits the work of Cormac McCarthy. 

Tor.com has an excerpt from Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell (Tor; LJ starred review).

Curtis Sittenfeld will be coming out with a new book, Romantic Comedy (Random) in spring 2023. Lit Hub shared the news.

Popsugar suggests books for fans of Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll (S. & S.).

Lit Hub has "book recommendations to help the troubled soul."

Electric Lit shares “8 Books That Wrestle With the Complexities of Religion” and “7 Flash Fiction Stories That Are Worth (a Tiny Amount of) Your Time.”

Book Riot lists “20 Must-Read Queer Millennial Novels,” “The Best and Worst Magical Schools in Literature,” and “10 Audiobooks Perfect for Spooky Season.”

CrimeReads presents “5 Uniquely Chicanx/Latinx Representations in Crime Fiction.”

NYT recommends 10 new books and "6 paperback books to read this week."

Authors on Air

Terry Gross from NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Ed Yong about his “journey into the world that animals know” for his book An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Random).

Constance Wu, author of the memoir Making a Scene (Scribner), talks to Tom Power about “the narrative around onscreen representation” on CBC Listen. 

Taika Waititi will direct an adaptation of Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (Pantheon: Random House) for Hulu, according to Tor.com.

Jeff Lemire’s graphic novel, Essex County (Top Shelf), will be adapted for television. CBC has more.

Town & Country shares news of a sequel to The Joy Luck Club, the adaptation of Amy Tan’s novel.

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