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Awards

The 2022 Philip K. Dick Award finalists are announced. The winner will be announced April 15, 2022 at Norwescon 44.

Sarah Enany wins the 2021 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for her translation to English of The Girl with Braided Hair by Rasha Adly (Hoopoe). Publishing Perspectives has details. 

Reviews

The Washington Post reviews Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds, illus. by Jason Griffin (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books: S. & S.): “billed as a book for ages 12 and up — is an essential read for all ages, an injection of humanity as we regroup at a threshold between possible futures.”

NPR reviews Lost & Found by Kathryn Schulz (Random): “Lost & Found is a prod toward amazement, a call to remember that ‘we are here to keep watch, not to keep’.” And, Chasing History by Carl Bernstein (Holt): “Bernstein wisely declines to turn the book into a compendium of advice for young reporters; he doesn't offer himself as a role model (or, for that matter, as a cautionary tale).”

NYT reviews The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan (S. & S.; LJ starred review): “Chan’s ideas are livid, but her prose is cool in temperature, and the effect is of an extended-release drug that doesn’t peak until long after you’ve swallowed it.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain (St. Martin’s), the buzziest book of the week.

EarlyWord releases its GalleyChat roundup for January 2022.

The Millions releases its top ten list for December 2021.

CrimeReads suggests “12 historical mysteries to look forward to in 2022.” Plus, 10 classic crime stories that entered the public domain.

UK book sales in 2021 highest in a decade. The Guardian reports.

Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin, Ain't Burned All the Bright (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books: S. & S) share their “their most memorable pop culture milestones” for the Entertainment Weekly Q&A.

Entertainment Weekly has an interview with Hanya Yanagihara, about the search for utopia in  To Paradise (Doubleday). 

LA Times talks with Antoine Wilson about the murder that shaped his life and new book, Mouth to Mouth (Avid Reader: S. & S.).

LA Times has an interview with Taylor Harris about This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown (Catapult). Harris also writes a piece, adapted from her memoir for Time. 

FoxNews interviews Lindsey Vonn about depression, media scrutiny and why she told her story in new memoir, Rise (Dey Street). Vonn also adapts portions of her memoir into an essay for Time.

Alafair Burke previews her new novel, Find Me (Harper), and recommends other thrillers at Entertainment Weekly. Burke also pens an essay about female friendship for CrimeReads.

Tor shares an excerpt from The Thousand Eyes (The Serpent Gates, Bk. 2) by A. K. Larkwood (Tor; LJ starred review), due out in February.

The Washington Post posts a list of critic Michael Dirda’s desert-island books.

LA Times has “10 books to help you understand inequality — and possible solutions.”

The Guardian has the top 10 books about amnesia. 

American Libraries has “11 Questions for ALA's new chief financial officer Dina Tsourdinis.”

Authors On Air

NPR’s Morning Edition talks with Maggy Krell, author of Taking Down Backpage: Fighting the World’s Largest Sex Trafficker (NYU Pr.).

NPR’s Book of the Day features James Goodwin and his new book, Supercharge Your Brain: How to Maintain a Healthy Brain Throughout Your Life (Pegasus).

Variety releases its SAG nomination predictions, highlighting several adaptations, including The Power of the Dog, based on the book by Thomas Savage, Dune, based on the book by Frank Herbert, and Nightmare Alley, based on the book by William Lindsay. Gresham.

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