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Awards & Pride Booklists

2022's Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize shortlist is announced.

Arnolda Dufour Bowes wins the 25th annual Danuta Gleed Literary Award, recognizing the best first collection of short fiction by a Canadian author.

Autostraddle has rainbow reading for Pride Month.

The Root provides 18 books for Pride Month.

Lambda Literary has “June’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature.”

NYPL shares “New LGBTQ Fiction for Pride 2022” and “New LGBTQ Nonfiction for Pride 2022.”

BookRiot writes “What to do when you see Pride displays in libraries this month.”

Page to Screen

June 3:

The Phantom of the Open, based on the book The Phantom of the Open: Maurice Flitcroft, The World’s Worst Golfer by Simon Farnaby and Scott Murray. Sony Pictures Classic. Reviews| Trailer

Fire Island, based on Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Netflix. Reviews| Trailer

Hollywood Stargirl, based on associated titles. Disney+. No reviews | Trailer

The Boys, based on a comic book by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Prime. No reviews | Trailer

P-Valley, based on the play by Katori Hall. Starz. No reviews | Trailer

June 6:

Roswell, New Mexico, based on the Roswell High book series by Melinda Metz. CW. No reviews | Trailer

June 7:

All Rise, inspired by the book Courtroom 302 by Steve Bogira. OWN. No reviews | Trailer

The Policeman's Lineage, based on the book Blood of the Policeman by Joh Sasaki. VOD. Reviews | Trailer

June 8:

Ms. Marvel, based on associated titles. Disney+ No reviews | Trailer

Reviews

NYT reviews Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone (MCD): “Although Pavone fans may find Two Nights in Lisbon quite a stretch, this smart, calculating author remains many notches above others in his field.” And The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy by David Gelles (S. & S.): “All his clichéd and colorful prose bits — ‘empires of yore,‘risible assertion,’ ‘gilded lifestyle,’‘helicopter pilot with supermodel looks,'‘pinstriped conquistador with the spoils to prove it’— might be forgivable if accompanied by fresh ideas or by deep, revelatory reporting.”

The Washington Post reviews The Foundling by Ann Leary (Scribner: Marysue Rucci Books): “Yes, The Foundling is a harrowing story of our sexist, racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic past, with certain striking and depressing resemblances to the present day. It’s also a beach read. Bring your own sunglasses.”

The Guardian reviews The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings by Geoff Dyer (Farrar): “In another writer, Dyer’s tendency to self-centredness could easily be wearying. But the minutiae he pulls out for display – the free tennis login, taking shampoo from hotels on an industrial scale – ring true to life and embody a kind of openness.”

Book Marks has "The Best Reviewed Books of the Week."

Briefly Noted

June’s Costco Connection is out featuring By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register by Piper Huguley (William Morrow Paperbacks). The buyers’ picks include The Boardwalk Bookshop by Susan Mallery (MIRA), and The H. G. Wells Collection: Deluxe 6-Volume Box Set Edition by H. G. Wells (Arcturus).   

Publishing Perspectives provides context for "Amazon’s Plan to Take the Kindle Off the Chinese Market."

Entertainment Weekly has a preview and excerpt from Nora Ephron: A Biography by Kristin Marguerite Doidge (Chicago Review Pr.), due out next week.

Patrice Nganang discusses his trilogy of historical novels about Cameroon, including A Trail of Crab Tracks trans. by Amy B. Reid (Farrar), with NYT.

LA Times talks with Susan Hartman about her new book, City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town (Beacon Pr.). There is also an interview with Keith Gessen about his parenting book, Raising Raffi: The First Five Years (Viking).

Vulture has a profile and interview with writer Imogen Binnie, and considers the enduring appeal of her novel Nevada, which is being reissued by Farrar next week.

Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk (Henry Holt and Co.), talks about writing his “ultimate road trip novel” with ElectricLit.

Gizmodo offers a first-look at the forthcoming third installment in the ‘Chronicles of the Avatar’ series, Avatar, The Last Airbender: The Dawn of Yangchen by F. C. Yee (Amulet), due out July 19th.

NYT recommends 11 books for the week.

Time has "The Best Books of 2022 So Far."

OprahDaily has 12 steamy reads for summer.

Buzzfeed suggests 34 summer books.

CBC shares 20 Canadian books to read in June.

Shondaland has “The Best Books for June 2022.”

USA Today has 20 Afrofuturism books, and explores the week's best sellers.

NPR recommends “5 books that try to help explain the unexplainable: the U.S. gun violence epidemic.”

The Millions asks: “Is It So Wrong to Accessorize with Books?”

Authors On Air

Kim Kelly, Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor (Atria; LJ starred review), discusses her new book and “how to fix the working conditions in book publishing” on The Maris Review podcast.

Audiofile’sBehind the Mic podcast celebrates 2022 Golden Voice Narrator Juliet Stevenson, and highlights her essential narrations.

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