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Awards & News

The Audie Award winners are announced, with Surrender, written and narrated by Bono (Books on Tape), winning Audiobook of the Year.  

The AAP’s PROSE Award category winners are announced. Publishing Perspectives has details.

The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses announces its 2024 shortlist.

The 2023 BMO Winterset Award shortlist is announced. Quill & Quire has details.

Judges for the 2024 Philip K. Dick Award are announced. Locus reports.

RuPaul starts a new online book marketplace, book club and sends the Rainbow Book Bus to deliver banned books. NYT reports. People also has coverage.

CBC provides a recap of Day 1 of Canada Reads, which kicked off yesterday. 

A librarian is suing Llano County, TX, after being fired for refusing to remove banned books, USA Today reports. 

Spotify launches a new audiobooks-only access tier. 

A new publisher, Authors Equity, launches with a profit-sharing financial model. NYT has the story. Publishers Lunch and WSJ also have coverage.

PW talks with Anjali Singh about launching her new literary agency, Anjali Singh Literary.

Reviews

NYT reviews The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir by RuPaul (Dey Street; LJ starred review): “RuPaul doesn’t hesitate to mention that luck was on his side. He nods to the specter of HIV/AIDS, the crack epidemic, even his run-ins with the police, then quickly turns back to his once-in-a-generation fortune”; Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon (Scribner): “In Lyon’s capable update, Persephone becomes Cory Ansel, a recent high school graduate who has been accepted to zero colleges and is working as a camp counselor to kill time until her next move”; Tell by Jonathan Buckley (New Directions): “Tell, by the British novelist Jonathan Buckley, offers a slow-burn literary take on the missing-person whydunit, recounted in fragmentary anecdotes”; and Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car by Nancy A. Nichols (Pegasus): “For all its hard-edged machinery, gender warring and auto-business shenanigans, the emotional engine of this book is Nichols’s own poignant story.”

NPR reviews The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture by Tricia Romano (PublicAffairs): “The Voice was the living center of the marginal, the weird, the rebellious. In the space and time of reading this wild ride of a book, I returned to that creative, crazy margin, and I think many other readers will, too.”

Washington Post reviews Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story by Leslie Jamison (Little, Brown): “Confessional writers are often faulted for sacrificing truth (and their loved ones along with it) to art, but Jamison makes the inverse mistake: She transcribes inner monologues unenhanced by any of the reshaping or revision that would make them more bearable to read”; and Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez (Flatiron): “Writing with urgency and rage, Gonzalez speaks up for those who have been othered and deemed unworthy, robbed of their legacy.”

Briefly Noted

NYT has a feature on Cristina Henriquez and her new book, The Great Divide (Ecco).

Tana French talks with Esquire about her new book, The Hunter (Viking).

ElectricLit talks with Amy Lin about her new memoir, Here After (Zibby; LJ starred review), “the present tense of grief, the inadequacy of language, the gift of both seeing and been seen.”

Taylor Swift and Emily Dickinson are related, LA Times reports. 

Chicago Tribune calls Percival Everett’s new novel, James (Doubleday; LJ starred review), “a masterpiece that will help redefine one of the classics of American literature, while also being a major achievement on its own.”

BookRiot shares “15 Tiny Ways to Celebrate National Reading Month.”

LitHub highlights 25 new books out this week. 

People has the best books to read in March.

BookRiot previews 15 new romance books for March.

ElectricLit shares “7 Books Written as Letters to Family Members.”

FoxNews highlights fantasy books under 300 pages.

Reactor identifies “10 Iconic Fantasy Novels Ripe for Rediscovery.”

Epicurious looks forward to new baking and dessert books for spring and 7 new cocktail books.

Authors on Air

RuPaul discusses his new book, The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir (Dey Street; LJ starred review), with NPR's Fresh Air. He is also interviewed on GMA and in USA Today.

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