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Awards & News

Suzette Mayr wins the $100K Scotiabank Giller Prize for The Sleeping Car Porter (Coach House Books). CBC has coverage and video of the ceremony. 

The World Fantasy Award winners are announced. Locus has details.

“Amazon considers disclaimer to antisemitic film Kyrie Irving shared online.” Seattle Times reports. 

"HC Union, Management Plan for Strike," reports Publishers Weekly.

Publishing Perspectives covers trends revealed in this week’s NPD book scan, including the US market and early 2022 holidays.

Reviews

USA Today reviews Now Is Not the Time To Panic by Kevin Wilson (Ecco), giving it 4 out of 4 stars: “Frankie and Zeke are wholly original characters, their lives painful and true, and while this is a novel you can read in a single sitting, it is best devoured slowly, a treat for the heart and mind.” NYT also reviews: “What Wilson offers instead is a largehearted depiction of American teenagerhood, a period of adolescence that has not changed so drastically in the past 30 years. Or, for that matter, the past century.”

NYT reviews Free Market: The History of an Idea by Jacob Soll (Basic Books): “while I wholeheartedly endorse Soll’s conclusion that ‘faith in the market alone will not save us,’ he hasn’t really delivered the book for those who want to learn what will.” And, Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami, tr. by Ted Goossen (Knopf; LJ starred review): “Its chapters focus on subjects that should be useful to any aspiring or working writer — originality, literary prizes, publishing abroad — yet each somehow collapses in on Murakami’s experience, leaving only traces of practical advice, and a narrator who seems at once proud, complacent, tone-deaf and aggrieved.” Plus, The Lion House: The Coming of a King by Christopher de Bellaigue (Farrar): “De Bellaigue relishes luxury, spectacle and precise vocabulary. He writes with supreme confidence about power, diplomacy, clothing, avarice, war, statecraft and the exceptional brutality of the era.”

LA Times reviews The Magic Kingdom by Russell Banks (Knopf): “though Kingdom doesn’t have the harrowing force of Banks’ finest novels, including Drift and 1989’s Affliction, it’s an engrossing morality tale.”

The Washington Post reviews Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends by Linda Kinstler (PublicAffairs: Perseus): “Kinstler, however, is not a foghorn writer; she is a cross-examiner leaping in from multiple sides, probing, flipping, slicing, exposing shades of gray.”

The Atlantic reviews The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge (Liveright): “Like the studies of the Grimkes that have preceded it, the book reflects the challenges of our own time, but Greenidge, who is an assistant professor at Tufts, regards these not with optimism about possibilities for racial progress but with something closer to despair.”

Briefly Noted

USA Today talks with Joanna Gaines about overcoming perfectionism in her new book, The Stories We Tell: Every Piece of Your Story Matters (Harper Select).

FoxNews shares details from a new royal biography, The King: The Life of Charles III by Christopher Andersen (Gallery).

People previews Jinger Vuolo’s forthcoming memoir, Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear (Thomas Nelson), due out in January. 

There is new fiction from Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux in this week’s New Yorker magazine. 

The Art of Star Wars: The High Republic: (Volume One), by Kristin Baver (Harry N. Abrams), releases today. Gizmodo has a write-up. 

CrimeReads writes about the best robots in science fiction. 

Esquire has “The Best Books of 2022 (So Far).”

The Millions shares notable new releases this week. 

LitHub has 15 new books for the week. 

Tor highlights new fantasy releases for November. 

BookRiot lists new releases for the week, 13 new mystery, thriller and true crime titles, and the 25 best climate change books. 

ElectricLit shares “9 Books That Take Aim at the Myth of the American Hero.”

“Kevin O'Neill, British comic artist and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen co-creator, dies at 69.” Entertainment Weekly has more on his life. 

Authors on Air

Nikki Giovanni discusses love and radicalism on Generational Anxiety, which airs on PBS. Essence has coverage. 

Amazon Studios, George Clooney, and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse acquire screen rights to Guy Lawson's as-yet unpublished book, Hot Dog Money: Inside the Biggest Scandal in the History of College Sports. Deadline has the story. 

Vulture recaps details about the forthcoming Percy Jackson adaptation on Disney+.

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