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Awards & Book News

Winners of the Publishing Triangle Awards for LGBTQIA+ books are revealed, Shelf Awareness reports.

NYPL announces the finalists for the Young Lions Fiction Award.

A lawsuit filed against the Rutherford County Board of Education by the ACLU of Tennessee aims to stop book bans in the county’s school libraries, Publishers Weekly reports.

Mystery writer Peter Lovesey has died at age 88, The Bookseller reports.

Page to Screen

April 18

The Order, based on The Order: Inside America’s Racist Underground (originally published in 1989 as The Silent Brotherhood: The Chilling Inside Story of America’s Violent, Anti-Government Militia Movement) by Kevin Flynn & Gary Gerhardt. Vertical Entertainment. Reviews | Trailer

April 19

The Room Next Door, based on the novel What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez. Netflix. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

NYT reviews The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission To Infiltrate the West by Shaun Walker (Knopf): “Walker, a reporter for The Guardian, has done the kind of deep archival spelunking and source-cultivating that makes editors nervous about expense accounts”; and Sorrowful Mysteries: The Shepherd Children of Fatima and the Fate of the Twentieth Century by Stephen Harrigan (Knopf): “Harrigan, who admits he never derived much spiritual or intellectual nourishment from his lapsed Catholicism, wonders near the end of Sorrowful Mysteries how ‘rational people’ could accept the suggestion that a divine message meant to warn about a world-shattering catastrophe would be delivered by such convoluted means.”

LA Times reviews Atavists: Stories by Lydia Millet (Norton): “But Millet’s deftly told tales—in Atavists, as in her other novels and collections—demonstrate how a narrative framework creates meaning for human life. We seek the kind of meaning that divides time into manageable fictions like eras or generations. The conceit of the short story allows Millet to show how personalities assert themselves and simultaneously explore our interconnectedness as a species”; and The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood by Matthew Specktor (Ecco): “But Specktor is trying to do something subtler and more slippery than cataloging boldfaced names and bellyaching about how commerce has strangled art. The Golden Hour is a determinedly artful and novelistic memoir, recalling the ebb and flow of millions in Hollywood in the past half-century, not to account for winners and losers but to better understand his parents’ psyches, and his own.”

The Guardian reviews The Elephant in the Room: How To Stop Making Ourselves and Other Animals Sick by Liz Kalaugher (Univ. of Chicago): “Her book reads as a kind of shadow history of human endeavour and innovation, tracing the calamitous price that trade, exchange and intensive farming have exacted on everything from frogs to ferrets. It’s a measured and detailed account, but below the calm surface you can hear an anguished cry imploring us to open our eyes and see how our own health is intertwined with that of other species”; and Days of Light by Megan Hunter (Grove): “The early parts of the novel are a vividly immersive delight. The world of 1930s bohemian privilege is well-trodden literary ground, but Hunter summons it afresh, evoking with exquisite precision this vanished world and the devastation of loss.”

LitHub gathers the best-reviewed books of the week.

Briefly Noted

NYT explores the ethics of publishing the late Joan Didion’s intimate personal writing about therapy in the forthcoming Notes to John (Knopf).

Washington Post has a profile of Jasmine Guillory, author of Flirting Lessons (Berkley).

USA Today speaks with Dana Perino of Fox News, author of I Wish Someone Had Told Me…: The Best Advice for Building a Great Career and a Meaningful Life (Harper).

Ariana Reines, author of Wave of Blood (Divided), shares her “Annotated Nightstand” with LitHub.

NYT has “Everything You Need To Know About Emily Henry,” author of Great Big Beautiful Life (Berkley; LJ starred review). People talks to Henry about who she wants to see in the adaptations of her books.

Dolly Parton announces a new, career-spanning book, Star of the Show: My Life on Stage, due out from Ten Speed on Nov. 11, People reports.

Director Martin Scorsese and musician Robbie Robertson’s friendship will be explored in Robertson’s posthumous memoir Insomnia, due out from Crown on Nov. 11; People has the news.

NYT suggests “8 New Books We Recommend This Week.”

CBC recommends “35 Great Canadian Books To Read This Spring.”

LitHub offers “Five Novels About Coming of Age When You’re Old Enough To Know Better.”

Authors on Air

LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast talks to Vauhini Vara, author of Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age (Pantheon; LJ starred review).

There’s a new episode of AudioFile’s Behind the Mic podcast, featuring a review of A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas, narrated by Kate Reading.

There’s a new episode of The LitHub Podcast, with Cave Canem executive director Lisa Willis discussing the new report “Magnitude and Bond: A Field Study on Black Literary Arts Organizations.”

Today, NPR’s Science Friday will interview Josh Miele, author of Connecting Dots: A Blind Life, written with Wendell Jamieson (Grand Central). Fresh Air will speak with Joy-Ann Reid, author of Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America (Mariner).

Shelf Awareness rounds up the schedule for this weekend’s Book TV on C-SPAN 2.

Jennifer Lopez will star in the movie adaptation of Liv Constantine’s 2017 novel The Last Mrs. Parrish, People reports.

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