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Awards & Book News

The National Book Critics Circle Award winners are announced. NYT has the news.

Daniel Finkelstein wins the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize for Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival (William Collins). The Bookseller has coverage.

Chris Newens’s Moveable Feasts: Paris in Twenty Meals, which will be published in 2025, wins the Jane Grigson Trust Award for New Food and Drink Writers, The Bookseller reports.

“Dreamscape’s Audiobook Program Expands Its Ambit.” Publishers Weekly has details.

Page to Screen

March 22

Sleeping Dogs, based on the novel The Book of Mirrors by E.O. Chirovici. The Avenue. Reviews | Trailer

March 26

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2, based on the books by A.A. Milne. ITN Distribution. Reviews | Trailer

March 28

We Were the Lucky Ones, based on the novel by Georgia Hunter. Hulu. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

Washington Post reviews Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler (Farrar): “Most everything Butler writes in their latest is true, but not all of it is instructive—not because we ought to be ‘deplatforming’ bigots, almost all of whom have platforms it is not within our power to revoke, but because the arguments that Butler tackles are flimsy and facile”; Wolf at the Table by Adam Rapp (Little, Brown): “Wolf joins a fine (if fading) tradition of robust American family sagas mastered by Jonathan Franzen, Jane Smiley and—especially—Joyce Carol Oates, the baroness of bad news in Rust Belt burgs”; America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators by Jacob Heilbrunn (Liveright: Norton): “Throughout this litany of conservative self-debasement, Heilbrunn’s writing is consistently lucid and springy. He provides vivid potted biographies of unfamiliar names and displays a real talent for unearthing potent and ironic quotations from the archive”; and The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System by Dante S. Lauretta (Grand Central): “This muscular tale of bravado and conquest is the story one expects from The Asteroid Hunter, but it isn’t the most interesting story in the book. Instead, what makes Lauretta’s memoir compelling is the vein of fragility that runs through it.”

NPR reviews Replay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family by Jordan Mechner (First Second): “Though Replay’s many twists and turns underscore the pervasive impact of the past, including painful traumas and unbearable losses, the emphasis is ultimately on the connectedness that remains in the present.”

NYT reviews On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America by Abrahm Lustgarten (Farrar): “Lustgarten’s narrative sometimes bogs down with data and research arcana…. What consistently enlivens the book are the author’s eloquent personal insights”; the audiobook of Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein (Macmillan Audio): “Rather than alienating the ‘other side,’ as it were, Klein uses the doppelgänger rubric as a way of pulling the unfamiliar closer, seeking out thoughtful and thorough context for how seemingly irreconcilable factions arrived at their extremes”; debut novels from Hanna Johansson, Julia Malye, Scott Alexander Howard, and Scott Guild; “three new books track[ing] the pain that persists among American soldiers and diplomats in the aftermath of war” by David Finkel, Ron Kovic, and Charles Trueheart; and four graphic novels by Jordan Mechner, Beth Hetland, Sergio Aragonés, and David Small in which something is horribly amiss.

Briefly Noted

This fall Doubleday will publish Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions, John Grisham’s first nonfiction title since 2006 (coauthored by Jim McCloskey), Kirkus reports.

The Millions talks to Yomi Adegoke, author of The List (Morrow; LJ starred review).

CrimeReads hosts a conversation between Kate Thompson, author of The Wartime Book Club (Forever: Grand Central), and K.D. Alden, author of Lady Codebreaker (Forever: Grand Central).

Poets & Writers speaks with Francisco Aragón, director of Letras Latinas at the University of Notre Dame, which has a mission to “enhance the visibility, appreciation, and study of Latinx literature.”

Kirkus interviews Sandra Guzmán, editor of Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (Amistad).

NYT selects “8 New Books We Recommend This Week” and six paperbacks to read this week.

LitHub brings together seven stories of robot-human relationships and six ghost stories from across Latin America.

The Guardian rounds up five of the best books about the Victorians.

Reactor recommends speculative poetry.

Authors on Air

Today, Good Morning America will talk to Kate Bowler, author of Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens (Convergent), Drew Barrymore Show will host Molly Baz, author of More Is More: Get Loose in the Kitchen (Clarkson Potter), and Real Time with Bill Maher will interview Kara Swisher, author of Burn Book: A Tech Love Story (S. & S.).

Fox News talks to former MLB outfielder Eric Byrnes about his new book, Let Them Play: A Parenting and Coaching Guide to Youth Sports (BookBaby).

AudioFile’s Behind the Mic podcast talks to Alan Minskoff, a longtime AudioFile reviewer.

MSNBC Films’ spring/summer slate will include a Dave Eggers documentary about book-banning, Deadline reports.

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