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Awards & News

The CWA Dagger Award winners are announced.

The Toronto Book Awards longlist is revealed. CBC has details. 

The Mo Siewcharran Prize longlist is released, Locus reports. 

Reviews

Washington Post reviews True Gretch: What I’ve Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between by Gretchen Whitmer (S. & S.): “In True Gretch, we meet one of the few politicians who might be equipped, and possibly even willing, to tackle what’s ahead. The book is welcome reassurance that someone might be courageous and capable enough to run toward the fire that’s making kindling of our democracy.”

NYT reviews The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas (Bloomsbury): “Even the most humdrum events resonate with importance when viewed through Savas’s meticulous and layered prose and plotting”; and The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry by Stacey D’Erasmo (Graywolf): “What D’Erasmo and her friends ultimately teach us is that the ‘how’ of an artist’s existence is as individual as the work itself—an act of creation.”

Autostraddle reviews Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable by Sarah Gerard (Zando): “Gerard’s pursuit of the truth and of understanding is not only evident in her adept and powerful storytelling but in the tenderness and ferocity with which she approaches every single aspect of her recounting.”

The Rumpus reviews Liars by Sarah Manguso (Hogarth): “Manguso’s prose is, as ever, nimble and precise. She writes Liars in the first person from Jane’s perspective, a choice fitting for a protagonist who internalizes most of the anger, shame, and humiliation that she feels.”

Briefly Noted

LitHub highlights 27 new books out this week.

NYT recounts “The Most Memorable Literary Moments of the Last 25 Years.”

BookRiot lists “10 of the Best Books for Gen Z Readers,” “8 of the Best Perimenopause Books,” and “7 Books to Read for Disability Pride Month.”

Vogue highlights cookbooks to own. 

Autostraddle previews “46 Most Anticipated Queer Books Coming Out This July and August.”

ElectricLit offers “10 Books to Read When You Can’t Stop Thinking About That Ex” and “10 Books About Women Colliding with Wild Creatures.”

Ebony highlights Black authors to read this month. 

AVClub suggests 10 books to read in July. 

Parade features the best shark books of all time. 

The Guardian rounds up the best crime and thriller books of the month.

The Atlantic shares 8 books to change your perspective.

Esquire considers what AI means for publishing and goes behind the scenes of celebrity book clubs.

Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride (Morrow), recommends six books that update fairytales, at Parade. 

USA Today has a Q&A with Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer about her new book, True Gretch: What I’ve Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between (S. & S.).

Margalit Fox talks about the woman at the center of her new book, The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss (Random), with CrimeReads.

Actors Tyler Posey and Mary Mouser join the cast of the original audiobook, Know Your Newlywed by Elena Armas, Heather Taylor, and Hillary Nussbaum (S. & S.), due out December 10. Deadline reports. 

People shares an excerpt from The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us by Rachelle Bergstein (Atria: One Signal), which publishes next week.

Courtney Sullivan, The Cliffs (Knopf), takes Elle’s “Shelf Life” literary questionnaire.

Olympic soccer midfielder Rose Lavelle shares her love of reading with PopSugar.

Authors on Air

Taffy Brodesser-Akner discusses her new novel, Long Island Compromise (Random; LJ starred review), with NPR’s Fresh Air.

A sequel to The Devil Wears Prada, based on the book by Lauren Weisberger, is in development at Disney, Variety reports. The musical adaptation, starring Vanessa Williams and featuring music by Elton John, will be staged at London’s Dominion Theater in October.

Actors Richard E. Grant and Tom Ellis join the cast of Netflix‘s upcoming film adaptation of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series. Hollywood Reporter has the story. 

T&C recommends 10 shows to watch for fans of Bridgerton.

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