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Awards, News & Events

Ann Cleeves reveals that her next Vera Stanhope book will be the last; The Bookseller has the story. 

Kevin Quigley, Kaitlynne Lowe, Sarah Moore, and Brianna Wolfe win the Donner Prize for best Canadian public policy book for Seized by Uncertainty: The Markets, Media, and Special Interests That Shaped Canada’s Response to COVID-19 (McGill-Queen’s Univ.). 

Publishers Lunch’s Fall/Winter Fiction Buzz Panel is available to watch now.

Publishing Perspectives reports from the Torino International Book Fair.

Supreme Court recusals in book publisher case Baker Jr. v. Coates affect quorum, resulting in affirmation of a lower court ruling. Washington Post has the story.

New editions of Claire Legrand’s “Empirium” trilogy will be issued for adult readers by Sourcebooks under its Casablanca imprint, PW reports.

Reviews

NYT reviews Bear Witness: The Pursuit of Justice in a Violent Land by Ross Halperin (Liveright: Norton): “Halperin tells the story with an immersive narrative voice reminiscent of Tracy Kidder, allowing the reader to peer over the shoulder of people trying to fight the good fight in near-impossible conditions”; Spent by Alison Bechdel (Mariner; LJ starred review): “Her genuine affection for her characters—with the possible exception of the one who bears her own name — gives Spent a sweetness that makes even its cheapest shots feel good-natured”; The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien (Norton): “Try to read without weeping profusely”; To Smithereens by Rosalyn Drexler (Hagfish): “Like a collage, or a fight, To Smithereens is at its heart about relationships, and the conflict and contact that is their lifeblood, or their ruin”; and three new thrillers: Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz (Harper; LJ starred review), The Death of Us by Abigail Dean (Viking), and Ruth Run by Elizabeth Kaufman (Penguin Pr.). 

Washington Post reviews The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America by Mark Whitaker (S. & S.): “Whitaker’s book is a fascinating exploration of the many ways that three generations of Americans have embraced the image, if not always the substance, of Malcolm X. Readers will have to consult other sources to fully understand why they did so.”

Briefly Noted

LitHub highlights 26 new books for the week. 

NPR spotlights 5 new books this week. 

Entertainment Weekly has 5 spring romance novels.

The Guardian ranks Margaret Atwood’s 10 best books. 

Washington Post shares “6 audiobooks for your summer travels.”

ElectricLit lists eight pre-apocalyptic novels.

BookRiot highlights new books for AAPI month.

The Atlantic asks: “What Is Alison Bechdel’s Secret?”

NYT catches up with “The Dresden Files” series author Jim Butcher after 25 years and 14 million books sold.

Alexis Bledel will narrate the 50th-anniversary audiobook of Natalie Babbit’s Tuck Everlasting (Macmillan Young Listeners), which publishes September 2, People reports. 

Washington Post explores “How Miranda July’s All Fours took on a life of its own.”

Chris Pavone, The Doorman (MCD), explores the New York crime novel at CrimeReads. 

Authors On Air

Karen Hao talks with NPR's Morning Edition about her new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI (Penguin Pr.).

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson discuss their book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice To Run Again (Penguin Pr.), with NPR’s All Things Considered. 

At Vogue, Mara Brock Akil shares nine  books that inspired her hit Netflix adaptation of Judy Blume’s Forever.

HBO Max’s Welcome to Derry, a prequel to Stephen King’s It, gets a trailer today, Variety reports.

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