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 Awards, News & Fall Books

The National Book Award longlists for Translated Literature and Young People’s Literature are announced. Longlists for poetry, nonfiction, and fiction will be announced tomorrow and Friday. The awards ceremony will be on November 20 at 8 p.m. ET.

Earlyword’s September “GalleyChat” spreadsheet is available now. 

Colleen Hoover’s It Ends with Us (Atria) has sold 10 million copies, Publishers Lunch reports. 

HarperCollins acquires North American rights to a forthcoming memoir from Jay Stratton, former director of the U.S government’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, Deadline reports. 

LJ’s fall cookbook preview is out now. Eater also highlights the 16 best cookbooks of fall, and Esquire shares “The Best Cookbooks of 2024 (So Far).”

Reviews

NYT reviews Joy in Service on Rue Tagore: Poems by Paul Muldoon (Farrar): “Do you need to ‘understand’ every beat of Paul Muldoon’s poetry in order to enjoy it? As with the work of John Ashbery, a lack of comprehension doesn’t necessarily impede delight.” Plus, there are short reviews of four historical fiction books: Nicked by M.T. Anderson (Pantheon), Come to the Window by Howard Norman (Norton), Our Narrow Hiding Places by Kristopher Jansma (Ecco), and Shanghai by Joseph Kanon (Scribner). 

Washington Post reviews Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout (Random): “Tell Me Everything is a novel of moods, how they govern our personal lives and public spaces, reflected in Strout’s shimmering technique.” The Guardian also reviews: “Strout understands all too well that there are tears at the heart of things; that none of us will escape untouched.”

Washington Post also reviews Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis by Ryann Liebenthal (Dey Street): “She zeroes in on how a corrupt system of coordinated indebtedness has widened inequality in this country”; Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany by Harald Jähner (Basic): “With a nod to current political uncertainties and the perception of modern democracies in crisis, his book is a stark reminder not to surrender to the auguries of false prophets. Weimar did not fail, he suggests; it was failed by its irresponsible elites”; By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle (Harper): “By the Fire We Carry is impeccably researched, with more than 70 pages of meticulous endnotes in which Nagle cites her sources for every fact, claim, quote and narrative she covers. It’s a fascinating book and an important one”; and The Women Behind the Door by Roddy Doyle (Viking): “The women in Roddy Doyle’s The Women Behind the Door are so flawed: bruised, crass, guilt-ridden, incontinent, self-centered, blunt to a fault, furious at themselves and each other and the world. And they are such wonderful company: so funny, so direct, so emotional, so surprising.”

NPR reviews Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Scribner): “Like Bruno-the-philosopher, Kushner is a dazzling chronicler of end times. The only thing that isn’t disposable in her novels is her own singular voice as a writer.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty (Crown), the top holds title of the week. 

LJ has new prepub alerts. 

People suggests new literary horror books.

Locus highlights new books for the week.

LA Times offers a booklist to ease climate anxiety. 

People shares a preview and cover reveal for Jennifer Haigh’s forthcoming novel, Rabbit Moon (Little, Brown), due out April 8. People also has interviews with Don Lemon, I Once Was Lost: My Search for God in America (Little, Brown); Stassi Schroeder, You Can’t Have It All: The Basic B*tch Guide to Taking the Pressure Off (Gallery); and Ed Burns, A Kid from Marlboro Road (Seven Stories).

Washington Post touts author Katherine Rundell as “her generation’s J.R.R. Tolkien.”

CrimeReads highlights the pleasures of Minnesota crime fiction.

Andre Hoffmann and Peter Vanham adapt from their new book, The New Nature of Business: The Path to Prosperity and Sustainability (Wiley), in an essay for Time.

Devika Rege, Quarterlife (Liveright), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers. 

People previews The Shop: Where Culture Shapes Up by Ernest Wilkins (Insight Editions), featuring a forward by Lebron James, due out next week. 

USA Today highlights former Traffic guitarist Dave Mason’s new memoir, Only You Know & I Know, written with Chris Epting (DTM Entertainment), with stories of the Beatles, addiction, and famous songs.

Authors on Air

Former British prime minister Tony Blair discusses his new book, On Leadership: Lessons for the 21st Century (Crown), with NPR’s Morning Edition. 

Jessica Pishko talks with NPR's Fresh Air about her book The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy (Dutton).

The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon (Knopf) will be adapted for TV, Deadline reports. 

A new adaptation of Georges Simenon’s iconic “Maigret” mystery series is headed to Masterpiece. Reactor has the story.

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