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Kakwenza Rukirabashaija is named the 2021 PEN Pinter International Writer of Courage for The Greedy Barbarian. The Guardian reports.

New Title Bestsellers

Links for the week: NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers | NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers | USA Today Best-Selling Books

Fiction

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (Viking) drives to No. 1 on both the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar; LJ starred review) arrives at No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 11 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Butler by Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press) serves at No. 5 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list and No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

2 Sisters Detective Agency by James Patterson and Candice Fox (Grand Central) starts at No. 7 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco (Hachette) rules No. 9 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Foul Play by Stuart Woods (Putnam) slices to No. 12 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Three Sisters by Heather Morris (St. Martin’s) debuts at No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Chainsaw Man, Vol. 7 by Tatsuki Fujimoto (VIZ Media) cuts to No. 7 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

The Storyteller by Dave Grohl (Dey St.; LJ starred review) debuts at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 2 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci (Gallery Books) eats No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 13 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

I’ll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House by Stephanie Grisham (HarperCollins) starts at No. 4 on both the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Dying Citizen by Victor Davis Hanson (Hachette) kills at No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003–2020) by David Sedaris (Little, Brown; LJ starred review) scores No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century by Fiona Hill (Mariner) locates No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

A Confederacy of Dumptys: Portraits of American Scoundrels in Verse by John Lithgow (Chronicle Prism) rises to No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

The Washington Post reviews Oscar Wilde: A Life by Matthew Sturgis (Knopf): “Sturgis’s biography is now the fullest one-volume account of the iconic fin-de-siècle writer, aesthete, wit and gay martyr. It draws on the most up-to-date manuscript discoveries and scholarship, but deliberately sticks closely to Wilde’s life, unlike Ellmann’s magnum opus, which includes substantial commentary on the major works.” Also, The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James’s, 1938-1940 by Susan Ronald (St. Martin’s): “In Ronald’s hands, Kennedy feels distant. Sometimes he completely disappears for pages in favor of dense European history.”

NYT reviews Whore of New York by Liara Roux (Repeater: Penguin Random House): “This is a memoir by a young person about a life in progress, and if it occasionally feels like an unfinished work, that doesn’t detract from the book’s powers as an original reflection on joy, anguish, sex, love and labor.”

Locus Magazine reviews Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985, edited by Andrew Netter and Iain McIntyre (PM: Ingram): “No single volume can ever do justice to the froth and fervor of the New Wave and the many societal uprisings and destabilizations it reflected, but this is an excellent primer that differentiates itself from other treatises through its many-voiced perspectives and its gorgeous accompanying artwork.”

Book Marks shares "5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week."

Briefly Noted

People shares multiple articles about Katie Couric’s memoir Going There (Little, Brown, & Co.) including: her struggles with bulimia, rumors about being replaced by Ashleigh Banfield, and being ‘shocked’ by the behavior of Matt Lauer. Also, the “strange Kennedy connection to Truman Capote’s ashes: a Bel Air Halloween bash to Marilyn Monroe’s crypt” found in Laurence Leamer’s book Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era (Putnam). Also, Lit Hub’s Laurence Leamer explores “Capote’s fascination with fabulously rich women.”

The Los Angeles Times explores Douglas Wolk’s All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told (Penguin Random House) and his mapping of the Marvel universe.

Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food (Gallery Books), shares “his grandmother’s famous tomato sauce recipe” with Lit Hub. Also, an excerpt of Jeanette Winterson's 12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next (Grove) and an excerpt of Life Sciences by Joy Sorman (Restless: Ingram). Poets & Writers shares an excerpt of The Art of Revision: The Final Word by Peter Ho Davies (Graywolf: Macmillan).

Amazon Original Stories will release a story collection collaboration between Keke Palmer and Jasmine Guillory in November called Southern Belle Insults. Entertainment Weekly gives a first look and cover reveals for all five stories. Also, the 3rd chapter of Wanda M. Morris’ All Her Little Secrets (William Morrow: HarperCollins).

Artist-Photographer Kali will have a four-volume book collection by Powerhouse Books, titled Kali. Variety reports.

Tor.com has a cover reveal for The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean (Tor Books: Macmillan).

Fox News shares an interview with Trisha Yearwood about her new cookbook, Trisha's Kitchen: Easy Comfort Food for Friends and Family (Mariner Books). Also, Britney Spears is considering a memoir. People has also covered this story.

NYT delves into "how books led a young Jane Goodall to live among the chimps" with an interview about her newest The Book of Hope (Celadon: Macmillan).

The Millions celebrates “Wednesday New Release Day: Starring Ball, Orlean, and More” featuring The Pessimists by Bethany Ball (Grove) and On Animals by Susan Orlean (Avid Reader).

Tor.com provides “Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction for September 2021.”

Oprah Daily lists “New Books in Translation.”

Lit Hub has “18 new books to get you excited about reading again” and a reading list for “tracing the Filipino Diaspora in the arc of the Global Age.”

Authors on Air

Netflix is launching a book club for it’s upcoming screen adaptations, hosted by Uzo Aduba, with their November pick Passing by Nella Larsen (Penguin Random House) according to People. 

Alexandra Kleeman, Something New Under the Sun (Hogarth: Crown), talks about why she “nods to Hamlet in her novel about climate change” on the Otherppl podcast.

Susan Orlean speaks to The Maris Review Podcast about her book On Animals (Avid Reader) and navigating the various human relationships with animals.

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