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Awards & Book News

Shortlists are announced for the J. Anthony Lukas Prizes, which honor the best in American nonfiction writing. Kirkus has coverage.

LA Times recommends “10 books to add to your reading list in March”; Washington Post also recommends “10 noteworthy books for March,” while LitHub recommends March’s best SFF books.

Lucinda Riley, The Seven Sisters: 10th Anniversary Edition (Pan), has been posthumously awarded publisher Pan’s Golden Pan award, The Bookseller reports.

Lily Tuzroyluke, author of the novel Sivulliq: Ancestor (Epicenter), is USA Today’s Woman of the Year honoree from Alaska.

“UK in the midst of a boom in book clubs as Gen Z’s hobbies change,” The Guardian reports.

“Hachette parent company Lagardère outlines plans to cut costs in the publishing division” by rethinking title count and pricing, The Bookseller reports.

Page to Screen

March 1

Dune: Part Two, based on the novels by Frank Herbert. Warner Bros. Reviews | Trailer

Spaceman, based on the novel Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař. Netflix. Reviews | Trailer

March 4

Frankenstein Legacy, based on Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. 101 Films. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

The Guardian reviews Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain by Jason Okundaye (Faber & Faber): “Revolutionary Acts offers beautifully rendered storytelling that never veers into sentimentality. At the beginning of the book, Okundaye tells us that recording Black British history can often feel like ‘a rescue effort, a race against time’ as subjects die…. We should be grateful that he has managed to capture a vital moment that—at so many points—could have been lost forever”; and a selection of the best recent poetry.

NYT reviews the audiobook of Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! by Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker (Macmillan Audio): “It’s funny and weirdly inspirational, and will satisfy both the comedy obsessive and the merely curious. But more than anything, you’ll begin to understand what makes the movie genius: the fact that no one in it seems to realize they’re making a comedy”; and “three new books that look at the tensions—left, center, right and further right—in the Democratic and Republican parties.”

LitHub selects “5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week.”

Briefly Noted

Sally Rooney will publish a new novel, Intermezzo (Farrar), in September; Washington Post and The Guardian have the announcement.

People talks to ER actor Eriq La Salle about his new career as a thriller writer and the author of Laws of Annihilation (Poisoned Pen).

Alex Van Halen will publish a new book about his brother Eddie. Brothers, from Harper, is due in October. People reports.

Screenwriter Marc Guggenheim has penned a new novel, In Any Lifetime, to be published by Lake Union in July; People has the news.

LitHub identifies February’s best-reviewed fiction and nonfiction, while CrimeReads rounds up the best-reviewed crime fiction of the month.

NYT selects “6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week” and “9 New Books We Recommend This Week.”

Publishers Weekly highlights “4 New Highly Anticipated Sophomore Novels” and “4 New Books About Trailblazing Women.”

EW selects the 8 best romance novels of winter 2024.

LitHub has the 11 best book covers of February.

Reactor identifies “Five SF Strategies for Creating More Land.”

The Guardian has writers and readers share the books they enjoyed in February.

NYT interviews Tessa Hulls, author of Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir (MCD).

Poet Hollie McNish, Antigone: A New Adaptation of the Classic Greek Tragedy (Fleet), takes The Guardian’s “The Books of My Life” survey.

Washington Post takes a tour of the personal library of Lisa Scottoline, author of the forthcoming The Truth About the Devlins (Putnam).

Authors on Air

Hollywood Reporter talks to the WME “adaptation authorities” about “the IP frenzy, a department shift and what’s in (and out) in Hollywood.”

LitHub highlights “The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in March.”

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