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Awards & Book News

Susan Cooper wins the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America’s Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. Reactor has coverage.

EmpathyLab has unveiled its 2024 Read for Empathy book collection, The Bookseller reports.

The Verge writes that Spotify is introducing more listeners to audiobooks.

Publishing Perspectives reports on Purpose-Led Publishing, a new coalition of nonprofit physics-society publishers in the U.S. and the UK that will put all of its revenues back into research.

Arcadia Publishing acquires Belt Publishing, which will give the publisher of books about local history and interest a larger footprint in the Midwest, Publishers Weekly reports.

Page to Screen

February 9

Drift, based on the novel A Marker To Measure Drift by Alexander Maksik. Utopia. Reviews | Trailer

Here, based on the graphic novel by Richard McGuire. Cinema Guild. Reviews | Trailer

It Ends with Us, based on the novel by Colleen Hoover. Sony Pictures. Reviews | Trailer

Lisa Frankenstein, based on Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Focus Features. Reviews | Trailer

The Taste of Things, based on The Passionate Epicure by Marcel Rouff. IFC Films. Reviews | Trailer

February 14

Madame Web, based on associated titles. Sony Pictures. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

Washington Post reviews Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries and Just One More Page Before Lights Out (Hanover Square: Harlequin): “In exploring the comfort and companionship books offer us, Reed gives her reader those gifts, as well”; Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh (Farrar): “Ghosh’s impressive history of the opium industry is an attempt to acknowledge ‘the historical agency of botanical matter’—to understand the drug ‘as an actor in its own right’”; and The Women by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s): “Reading Hannah’s books may be a masochistic pastime, but it’s also a hugely popular one.”

NYT has a joint review of Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds by Michelle Horton (Grand Central; LJ starred review) and My Side of the River: A Memoir by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez (St. Martin’s), plus a review of the audiobook of Day by Michael Cunninngham, narrated by Julianne Moore (Books on Tape).

LA Times reviews Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spuford (Scribner): “Part world building, part detective noir, part savage critique of our country’s (real) history, Spufford builds his creation on the foundations of a real place that grew, thrived and then vanished.”

Briefly Noted

Viking will publish Anthony Fauci’s memoir On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service in June, Kirkus and People report.

Mariner will publish The Blue Hour, a new thriller from Paula Hawkins, on October 8, Publishers Weekly reports.

Cognitive Books has launched a series of for people with dementia featuring narration from Bill Nighy, The Bookseller reports.

To celebrate its 75th anniversary, Thames & Hudson will launch a new publishing program, book design award, and branding, Publishers Weekly writes.

The Millions speaks with Debra Magpie Earling, author of The Lost Journals of Sacajewea (Milkweed Editions), about “reclaiming Native women’s agency.”

The Rumpus interviews Ani Gjika, author of An Unruled Body (Restless).

Publishers Weekly speaks with Roxane Gay about “the daring, sensuous” writing of Marguerite Duras and with Kaveh Akbar about “the delightful disorientation” of Amos Tutuola.

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

LitHub highlights “The Best-Reviewed Books of the Week.”

Publishers Weekly highlights three new debut novels by Black women authors, three new biographical histories emphasizing social justice, and February 2024 book club picks.

NPR suggests: “Pregame the Super Bowl with our favorite football fiction.”

Electric Lit recommends “8 Stories About Cultural Alienation and the Search for Belonging” and “7 Texas Novels About Mother-Daughter Relationships.”

People shares Emily Henry’s choices for the top five books on love.

CrimeReads appreciates “two cleverly deceptive tales by mystery’s greatest showman,” Hake Talbot, and shares a guide to the crime novels of Laurie R. King.

Authors on Air

Deadline has the news that Truth Is a Flightless Bird by Akbar Hussain (Iskanchi) is being developed as a series.

Prime Video will develop Tia Williams’s Seven Days in June (Grand Central) as a series, Deadline reports.

Ryan Reynolds and Paramount are working on an adaptation of John Scalzi’s Starter Villain (Tor; LJ starred review). Reactor has the news.

On Fox News, Jared Cohen, Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House (S. & S.), looks at today's campus controversies against the backdrop of unrest at Thomas Jefferson’s University of Virginia during the ex-president’s later years.

Today, NPR’s Science Friday will interview Uché Blackstock, author of Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine (Viking).

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