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Awards & News

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anne Applebaum is awarded the German Book Trade Peace Prize. Her newest book, Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want To Run the World (Doubleday), publishes July 23.

Patrick deWitt wins the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour for his novel The Librarianist (Ecco). Leacock also won the award in 2012 for The Sisters Brothers. CBC has coverage. 

Alicia Elliott’s And Then She Fell (Dutton) and Brandi Bird’s The All + Flesh: Poems (House of Anansi) are among the winners of the Indigenous Voices Awards. CBC has details.

Hillary Clinton will release a new book, Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty (S. & S), on September 17. AP reports.

Seattle Times reports on the fallout from the Seattle Public Library’s network outage after a ransomware attack last month.

Reviews

NYT reviews Bear by Julia Phillips (Hogarth): “Bear ends with a bang, and with the intriguing notion that sisterhood (or sisters?) may be as unknowable and unpredictable as anything else in nature.” Datebook also reviews: “All ursine shenanigans aside, Bear is an intimate look at misery and what it means to feel unhinged.”

NYT also reviews A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue by Dean Jobb (Algonquin): “Instead of analyzing this ‘prince of thieves’ psychologically, Jobb examines the culture that celebrated him—noting, for example, how popular fictional characters (even some that Barry claimed he’d never heard of) paved the way for a real-life version”; and Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ’70s New York by Guy Trebay (Knopf): “Advertised as a coming-of-age story, Trebay’s beautiful book is more like a coming-to-terms story about his own fugitive needs.”

Washington Post reviews Jackie by Dawn Tripp (Random; LJ starred review): “Tripp’s book stands out for its psychological acuity, although I reckon the former first lady, as she aged, became far more clear-eyed about her first husband than the author allows. Still, Jackie is also notable for its admirable emphasis on the intelligence and grace of this valiant American woman”; and Gretel and the Great War by Adam Ehrlich Sachs (FSG Originals): “What seems at first to be occasionally echoing but largely unconnected stories turns out to be the more coherent narrative of a society in the process of coming unglued.”

Briefly Noted

LitHub highlights 20 new books out today. 

Parade shares 24 new books publishing this week.

BookRiot has new releases for the week. 

CrimeReads suggests seven debut novels out this month. 

Authors Steven Rowley, Nekesa Afia, Andrea Bartz, and others recommend LGBTQ+ books for Pride Month, in People.

Francine Prose discusses her new book, 1974: A Personal History (Harper; LJ starred review), with ElectricLit.

Dean Butler, who portrayed Almonzo Wilder on the television show Little House on the Prairie, talks about his new memoir, Prairie Man: My Little House Life & Beyond (Citadel; LJ starred review), with People. 

Vox considers Miranda July’s All Fours (Riverhead) alongside this “summer’s age-gap escapist fantasies.”

Emily Nussbaum talks about her new book, Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV (Random; LJ starred review), in an interview with Vogue. 

Kristy Woodson Harvey writes about the puppy who appears in her latest book, A Happier Life (Gallery), for Parade. 

Today shares an excerpt from Dishonestly Yours by BookTok favorites Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie (Berkley), due out next week. 

People previews the re-release and new cover for Alexis Hall’s Pansies (Sourcebooks Casablanca), which publishes November 5. 

ElectricLit shares “9 Experimental Books That Break Narrative Norms.”

“Frederick Crews, Withering Critic of Freud’s Legacy, Dies at 91.” NYT has the obituary. 

Authors on Air

Washington Post takes a look at a new stage adaptation of James Joyce’s “impossible novel,” Ulysses.

Yasmine Cheyenne, Wisdom of the Path: The Beautiful and Bumpy Ride to Healing and Trusting Our Inner Guide (HarperOne), will visit Today.

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