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Awards & Book News

English PEN Translates winners are announced.

NYT announces its readers’ picks for best books of the 21st century.

The winners of the Oklahoma Book Awards are revealed.

Emerald ᏃᏈᏏ GoingSnake and Kira Hayen win Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Awards for Indigenous writers, Poets & Writers announces.

David Nicholls, Colm Tóibín, Elif Shafak, Kamila Shamsie, and Sarah Winman will pen new introductions to five novels by E.M. Forster, being reissued in hardcover this fall by Sceptre, The Bookseller reports.

Page to Screen

July 19

Widow Clicquot, based on The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It by Tilar J. Mazzeo. Vertical. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

NPR reviews This Great Hemisphere by Mateo Askaripour (Dutton; LJ starred review): “When it comes to [worldbuilding], Askaripour certainly delivers. However, the story is also a twisty political thriller with elements of crime and mystery—and those genres demand a faster, tighter pace, which the novel never delivers.”

Washington Post reviews two mystery novels that make perfect summer reads: Cabaret Macabre by Tom Mead (Mysterious Pr.) and Another Day’s Pain, the final Rocksburg novel by the late K.C. Constantine (Mysterious Pr.), and the month’s best audiobooks: Nero by Conn Iggulden (RB Media), Long Island by Colm Tóibín (Books on Tape), and Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum (Books on Tape).

NYT reviews three books about obstacles to gender equality in the workplace: Fair Shake: Women and the Fight To Build a Just Economy by Naomi Cahn, June Carbone & Nancy Levit (S. & S.), Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net by Jessica Calarco (Portfolio), and Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation by Leslie T. Chang (Random).

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

Briefly Noted

Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea will be reimagined as a graphic novel by artist Fred Fordham, to be published in March 2025 by Clarion, Reactor reports.

Actor Ruth Wilson will narrate new audiobooks for Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” series, Deadline reports.

NYT talks to Jasmin Graham, author of Sharks Don’t Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist (Pantheon; LJ starred review). Graham will also be interviewed on NPR’s Science Friday today.

People interviews Howard Blum, author of the true crime book When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders (Harper).

Lorrie Moore, the author of I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home (Knopf), answers The Guardian’s “The Books of My Life” questionnaire.

Electric Lit asks three debut authors—Santiago Jose Sanchez, Uchenna Awoke, and Yasmin Zaher—how their first books came together.

NYT gathers “6 New Books We Recommend This Week.”

Electric Lit recommends seven books about Jamaica by Jamaican authors.

CrimeReads selects the best debut novels of July.

Conservative talk show host and author Lou Dobbs has died at age 78; People has an obituary.

Authors on Air

Greenwich Entertainment has acquired The Critic, a period thriller starring Ian McKellen and based on Anthony Quinn’s novel Curtain Call; Deadline has the news.

Amazon MGM Studios has acquired the psychological thriller film Sasha, based on a short story by Suzanne Rindell, Deadline reports.

Author J.D. Barker is writing a new novel, Flatliners Resurrection, that will revive the IP for the 1990 horror film Flatliners, Deadline announces. Publication details have not been revealed.

Omid Scobie and Robin Benway’s upcoming novel Royal Spin has landed at Universal TV for series development, Deadline reports. There are no details yet about the book’s publication.

Kirkus highlights the literary adaptations that have been nominated for Emmys.

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