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Awards & News

The Washington State Book Award Winners are announced.

The Dream Foundry Award winners are announced. Locus has details. 

Elly Griffiths wins Author of the Year at the BA Conference Awards, The Bookseller reports.

Publishing Perspectives provides commentary on the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award shortlist. 

AAP and the Authors Guild have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging Texas’s House Bill 1181, Publishing Perspectives reports. 

Aspen Words will partner with Book of the Month to launch the inaugural Aspen Literary Festival in September 2025. 

Publishers Weekly previews the New York Comic Con, scheduled for October 17–20, 2024.

Reviews

Washington Post reviews The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk, tr. by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Riverhead): “Tokarczuk’s novel is a grand fantasy of revenge. Here the women absented by life, circumstance or history have not departed but only changed form.”

NYT offers short reviews of three new romance novels: The Pairing: Special 1st Edition by Casey McQuiston (St. Martin’s Griffin; LJ starred review), The Finest Print by Erin Langston (self-published ebook), and Hot Earl Summer by Erica Ridley (Forever: Grand Central). 

NPR reviews Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Farrar): “Intermezzo, her fourth novel, is her most fully developed and moving yet.”

The Guardian reviews Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst (Random): “And he is above all an appreciator, taking pleasure in the inexhaustible particularity of what people do and make and see. That capacity for appreciation acquires new emotional and political meaning here, in the finest novel yet from one of the great writers of our time.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Farrar), the top holds title of the week. 

LJ has new prepub alerts. 

Marie Claire has 30 mysteries and thrillers to read this fall.

NYT has an interview with Janice Hallett, The Examiner (Atria), and explores how she crafts her murder mysteries. 

CrimeReads talks with Elyse Graham about her new book, Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II (Ecco).

Actor and filmmaker Ed Burns chats with FoxNews Digital about his debut novel, A Kid from Marlboro Road (Seven Stories). 

Musician Kenny G talks with USA Today about his new memoir, Life in the Key of G: One Note at a Time (Blackstone). 

Vanity Fair shares an excerpt from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book, The Message (One World), which publishes next week. 

Vogue asks: “Why Are All the Characters in Sally Rooney’s Novels So Thin?”

Vanity Fair talks with Ashley Spencer about her new book Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel’s Tween Empire (St. Martin’s). People also shares details from the book.

People shares an excerpt from Wally Lamb’s forthcoming novel, The River Is Waiting (S. & S./Marysue Rucci), due out May 6.

USA Today talks with author David Sedaris about his new book tour. 

Afabwaje Kurian, Before the Mango Ripens (Dzanc), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers. 

T&C suggests 30 books about witches. 

NYT delves into the “Strega Nona September” TikTok trend, inspired by the children’s books by Tomie dePaola. 

Authors on Air

NPR’s Fresh Air talks with Aaron Zebley, coauthor of Interference: The Inside Story of Trump, Russia, and the Mueller Investigation, written with James Quarles & Andrew Goldstein (S. & S.), who “explains why his team didn’t indict the president in 2017.”

PBS Canvas speaks with Wright Thompson about his new book, The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi (Penguin Pr.), and the “people and forces behind Emmett Till’s murder.”

The Kingdoms of Savannah by George Dawes Green (Celadon) will be adapted for television, Deadline reports.

NYT has a feature on the opera adaptation of Garth Greenwell’s novel What Belongs to You (Picador).

Deadline provides a first look at Glenn Close starring in The Summer Book, based on the novel by Tove Jansson. 

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