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Awards & Book News

Ferdia Lennon wins the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for Glorious Exploits (Holt; LJ starred review), The Guardian reports.

Lisa Jewell’s None of This Is True (Atria), Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing (Entangled: Red Tower), and Laurie Gilmore’s The Pumpkin Spice Café (One More Chapter) win TikTok Book Awards, BBC reports

Longlists for the Polari Prizes for LGBTQIA+ literature are announced.

Page to Screen

July 26

Deadpool & Wolverine, based on associated titles. Marvel Studios. Reviews | Trailer

Mothers’ Instinct, based on the novel by Barbara Abel. Neon. Reviews | Trailer

Starve Acre, based on the novel by Andrew Michael Hurley. BFI Distribution. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

LA Times reviews The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982 by Chris Nashawaty (Flatiron): “There’s a whole lot going on in The Future Was Now—at times, too much. A study of eight movies will almost by definition be diffuse, and it sometimes feels like Nashawaty is just starting to get to the heart of one subject when he feels compelled to move on to the next.”

NYT reviews four new horror novels: The Deading by Nicholas Belardes (Erewhon), The Drowning House by Cherie Priest (Poisoned Pen), Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle (Tor Nightfire; LJ starred review), and Stay on the Line by Clay McLeod Chapman (Shortwave).

LitHub rounds up the best-reviewed books of the week.

Briefly Noted

In honor of the Olympics opening ceremony tonight, LitHub looks back on Mary Renault’s The Last of the Wine (Vintage), and what it reveals about athletes, ancient and modern.

CrimeReads interviews Peter Houlahan, author of the true crime book Reap the Whirlwind: Violence, Race, Justice, and the Story of Sagon Penn (Counterpoint).

Joshua Perry, author of Seraphim (Melville House), argues in CrimeReads that “we need more crime fiction by defense attorneys.”

Electric Lit talks to Liars author Sarah Manguso (Hogarth).

The Rumpus speaks with Hala Alyan about her new poetry collection, The Moon That Turns You Back (Ecco).

Elise Bryant, author of It’s Elementary (Berkley), answers Shelf Awareness’s “Reading With…” questionnaire, while Claire Kilroy, author of Soldier Sailor (Scribner), shares “The Books of My Life” with The Guardian.

NYT lists “6 new books we recommend this week” and “6 paperbacks to read this week.”

Electric Lit rounds up “9 Books That Blur the Boundaries Between Novel and Story Collection” and “7 Books Reimagining Queer Histories.”

CBC gathers 12 Canadian SFF books to escape into this summer.

Authors on Air

CBC’s Q with Tom Power talks to filmmaker Naomi Jaye, whose movie Darkest Miriam, about a Toronto librarian, is based on Martha Baillie’s novel The Incident Report (Coach House).

BBC has coverage of the Netflix series based on Bocaccio’s The Decameron.

A comedy series based on Grady Hendrix’s The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, an LJ Best Book, has landed at HBO, Deadline reports.

Netflix has greenlighted His & Hers, a psychological thriller limited series adapted from Alice Feeney’s novel; Deadline has the news.

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