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Awards, Events, & News

The Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist is announced. The Guardian and The Bookseller have coverage. 

Tom Doherty, founder of Tor Books, wins the Robert A. Heinlein Award. Locus has details. 

Audiofile announces the March Earphones Winners.

The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards shortlist is announced.

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera (Celadon) is the new GMA book club pick. 

Locus shares updates about the Hugo Awards tampering scandal.

CBC recaps day 2 of Canada Reads.

Haruki Murakami’s first book in six years, The City and Its Uncertain Walls, will arrive in November. BookRiot has the story and offers a Murakami reading pathway. 

World Book Day is tomorrow.

Oxford University Press will close its systems for “a number of weeks” from mid-March to mid-April, The Bookseller reports.

Reviews

NPR reviews five new romance novels by black authors: This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan (Forever: Grand Central), A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams (Grand Central; LJ starred review), The Partner Plot by Kristina Forest (Berkley), Sex, Lies and Sensibility by Nikki Payne (Berkley; LJ starred review), and Lore of the Wilds by Analeigh Sbrana (Harper Voyager).

Washington Post reviews Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi (Riverhead): “The post-communist Prague that attracted so many creative types it was dubbed the ‘Left Bank of the ’90s’ may have transformed into a glitzier, more sanitized version of itself, but it clearly still has plenty of stories to tell. Those it gifted to Oyeyemi are true gems.”

NYT reviews Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar): “Marilynne Robinson’s Reading Genesis is a writer’s book, not a scholar’s; it has no footnotes. Its power lies in the particular reading it gives us of one of the world’s foundational texts, which is also one of the foundations of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s mind and faith.”

Slate reviews Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham (Hogarth): “Huge swaths of his life—the stuff that most people consider central to their own identities—can barely be glimpsed in Great Expectations. But that doesn’t make the spectacle of this pilgrim’s progress any less captivating.”

The New Yorker has four brief book reviews.

Briefly Noted

LJ has new prepub alerts.

Bustle previews 44 books for spring.

Esquire shares “The Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024 (So Far).”

NYT highlights 15 new books for March. 

People suggests books for Women’s History Month.

Vanity Fair shares 13 books for the month.

LA Times recommends birding books. 

Datebook suggests 22 books for spring. 

Variety shares five books about the Oscars.

Poet Cindy Juyoung Ok, Ward Toward (Yale Univ.), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers. 

People shares details of a fatherly Luke Perry from Margaret Wappler’s new book, A Good Bad Boy: Luke Perry and How a Generation Grew Up (S. & S.). 

Washington Post takes a deeper dive into Frank Herbert’s Dune. 

ElectricLit talks with Sarah Beth Childers about her new book, Prodigals: A Sister’s Memoir of Appalachia and Loss (Univ. of Georgia). 

Time investigates “Why We Still Read Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations.”

NYT explores the posthumous publication of Until August by Gabriel García Márquez, tr. by Anne McLean (Knopf), including “questions about how literary estates and publishers should navigate posthumous releases that contradict a writer’s directives.”

FoxNews reports on a new survey which suggests that people select vacation spots by reading books.

“Rabbi Ellen Bernstein, Who Saw Ecology as God’s Work, Dies at 70.” NYT has an obituary. 

Authors on Air

Rod Nordland discusses “facing mortality from war and cancer” in his new memoir, Waiting for the Monsoon (Mariner), with NPR’s Fresh Air. 

The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA by Liza Mundy (Crown) will get a series adaptation, Deadline reports.

A Gentleman in Moscow, based on the novel by Amor Towles, gets a trailer. Deadline has the news.

House of the Dragon season 2, based on George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (Bantam), will debut on HBO in June. Variety reports.

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