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Awards, News & Bookclubs

Shortlists for the An Post Irish Book Awards are announced. 

Winners of the National Translation Awards are announced. LitHub has coverage, plus an essay on why “close reading is an essential part of literary translation.”

The World Fantasy Award winners were announced during the 2024 World Fantasy Convention, Locus reports. 

RBC Bronwen Wallace Awards adds a new prize category for creative nonfiction, CBC reports.

This Motherless Land by Nikki May (Mariner) is the November Read with Jenna pick.

Like Mother, Like Mother by Susan Rieger (Dial) is B&N’s November pick. 

Ingram's Consortium adds seven new publishers for distribution, Shelf Awareness reports. 

Reviews

LA Times reviews Carson the Magnificent by Bill Zehme, with Mike Thomas (S. & S.; LJ starred review): “Jumping around in time and space, Zehme’s eagerness to make the case for the book’s title (often with breathless parentheticals) both propels the narrative and, at times, slows it down.”

NYT reviews Sister Deborah by Scholastique Mukasonga, tr. by Mark Polizzotti (Archipelago): “As they search, strive, wait and hope, they disrupt their own lives as well as longstanding systems of patriarchy and colonialism; and this remarkable, recursive book about the power of belief—like its heroines—finds new form again and again.”

The Rumpus reviews Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality by Lyta Gold (Soft Skull): “Dangerous Fictions is an examination of the phenomenon in Western culture whereby anxiety about the negative effects of made-up stories lead to efforts to control access to those stories, especially among vulnerable groups.”

Briefly Noted

LitHub highlights 18 new books this week.

Parade lists 23 new releases for the week. 

The Guardian rounds up the month’s best crime thrillers. 

Food & Wine has “The 35 Best Cookbooks of All Time.”

The Root’s “It’s Lit” suggests November’s best books by Black authors. 

Marie Claire ranks Kristin Hannah’s bests books. 

J-14 shares “The Best Romantasy Books of 2024.”

ElectricLit has an interview with Cebo Campbell, author of Sky Full of Elephants (S. & S.). 

Salon chats with Chef Nini Nguyen about her new cookbook, Dac Biet: An Extra-Special Vietnamese Cookbook (Knopf; LJ starred review). 

Novelist and poet Paul Bailey has died at the age of 87. The Guardian has an obituary.

Authors on Air

Eliza Griswold discusses her new book, Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church (Farrar), with NPR’s Fresh Air.

PBS Canvas talks with poet Mosab Abu Toha about the origins of his new collection, Forest of Noise (Knopf; LJ starred review). 

NBA All-Star DeMar DeRozan joins NPR’s Bullseye with Jesse Thorn to talk about about his new book, Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm, written with Dave Zarum (Harmony). 

Kirkus has “4 New Adaptations To Watch in November.”

Eva Longoria shares recipes from her new cookbook, My Mexican Kitchen: 100 Recipes Rich with Tradition, Flavor, and Spice (Clarkson Potter), on GMA. 

Nick Offerman joins the cast of Apple TV+’s Margo’s Got Money Troubles, based on the book by Rufi Thorpe. Hollywood Reporter has the news. 

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