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News & Buzzy Books

Soho Press launches horror imprint, Hell’s Hundred, Publisher’s Weekly reports.

Emma Heming Willis, wife of actor Bruce Willis, will publish a caregiving book through Maria Shriver’s publishing imprint, the Open Field, in 2025. USA Today has the story. People and GMA also have coverage.

NPR writes about Ten Little Rabbits (HarperCollins; SLJ starred review), a new posthumous picture book from Maurice Sendak.

CBC recommends 19 Canadian books for Black History Month. 

Vulture reveals that Elly Conway is the pen name of Terry Hayes and Tammy Cohen.

Sabrina McCarthy is named president of Bloomsbury US, The Bookseller reports.

Lambda Literary has placed its Review on temporary hiatus. 

Reviews

NYT reviews Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford (Scribner): “The world of Cahokia is rich and complex, racially, politically and spiritually. Spufford does a nice job with the emotional tug of war between the native Cahokian religion and the superimposed Catholicism”; The Road from Belhaven by Margot Livesey (Knopf): “The Road From Belhaven is Victorian Scotland seen through heather-tinted spectacles, and its heroine is unfortunately wrapped in a layer of narrative cotton wool”; Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America by Joy-Ann Reid (Mariner): “As the MSNBC journalist Joy-Ann Reid details in her compelling history, Medgar and Myrlie, Evers traveled the state extensively and he was intimately familiar with the virulent racism and violence the riders would encounter”; and The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster by John O’Connor (Sourcebooks; LJ starred review): “O’Connor is affable in the extreme, and funny, and in Bigfoot he has found an object of desire that unites in real intimacy conservationists who long for wilderness and seekers who long for transcendence.” Washington Post also reviews: “Ultimately, though, the hunt for Bigfoot reveals much about the poverty of the American psyche.”

Washington Post reviews Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer (Penguin Pr.): “He’s not trying to lay out a set of policy solutions. He’s making a more nuanced plea, a rejection of the ‘selective amnesia’ of politics in favor of a deeper understanding of how we—as a nation and as a region—got here.”

LA Times reviews Dinner on Monster Island: Essays by Tania De Rozario (Harper Perennial): “With clear, precise language, Dinner on Monster Island is a taut and riveting collection.”

Briefly Noted

LA Times highlights Patti Davis’s new memoir, Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter About Family, Memory, and the America We Once Knew (Liveright: Norton), and about her history of writing about her life as the oldest child of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. 

Salon has an interview with Roger Rapoport, journalist and author of the new book, Searching for Patty Hearst (Lexographic).

Poet Lisa Olstein talks with The Rumpus about the new collection, Dream Apartment (Copper Canyon).

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem discusses her forthcoming book, No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward (Center Street), due out May 7, with FoxNews.

USA Today features Pulitzer Prize winner Connie Schultz’s new picture book, Lola and the Troll, illus. by Sandy Rodriguez (Razorbill).

The Atlantic profiles author and cartoonist Raina Telgemeier.

Gizmodo has “February's New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Releases.”

AARP suggests what to read in February.

LitHub highlights 24 new books out today. 

BookRiot previews 11 forthcoming cookbooks and 10 nonfiction books for the month.

ElectricLit shares “7 Books About the Triumphs and Tragedies of Mountain Climbing” and “9 Novels to Read if You Loved Saltburn.”

Vanity Fair asks: “Who Were the Swans? A Deep Dive into Truman Capote’s Best Frenemies.” Feud: Capote vs. The Swans streams on FX. 

“Robie Harris, Often-Banned Children’s Author, Is Dead at 83.” NYT has an obituary. 

Author and scholar Christopher Priest has died at the age of 80. Locus has an obituary.

Authors on Air

Sheila Heti discusses her new book, Alphabetical Diaries (Farrar), on B&N’s Poured Over podcast. 

CBC Radio’s Unreserved reflects on 10 years of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Milkweed). 

Michele Norris talks about Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity (S. & S.), with NPR's Fresh Air.

PBS Canvas has an interview with by Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr! (Knopf).

T&C previews the Outlander prequel Blood of My Blood, based on the series by Diana Gabaldon.

Reactor shares the winners of the 2024 Saturn Awards.

Suzy Krause’s forthcoming novel, I Think We’ve Been Here Before (Lake Union), will be adapted for TV. Deadline reports.

South African star of “Strictly Come Dancing” Johannes Radebe’s memoir JoJo: Finally Home gets a film adaptation with musical numbers, Deadline reports.

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