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Awards & News

The Kirkus Prize finalists are announced. Shelf-Awareness has coverage, as does AP.

Tracey Slaughter wins the Moth Short Story Prize.

Time previews the most anticipated books of this fall.

Hearne launches Horned Lark Press. Locus reports. 

Mango Publishing Group launches a new imprint, Books That Save Lives. PW has the news.

Founder and longtime head of Barnes & Noble Leonard Riggio has died at the age of 83. WSJ has an obituary. NPR also has an obituary, and Publishers Weekly shares a tribute. 

Reviews

NYT reviews Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—and Pocketed $40 Million by Tanya Smith (Little, Brown): “The narrative is propulsive, the pacing is fantastic and the accumulated events land with real weight.” There are also short reviews of four new crime novels: The Devil Raises His Own by Scott Phillips (Soho Crime; LJ starred review), The Divide by Morgan Richter (Knopf), The Queen City Detective Agency by Snowden Wright (Morrow), and The River View by Jamie Harrison (Counterpoint). 

Washington Post reviews That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America by Amanda Jones (Bloomsbury; LJ starred review): “Because while the book makes clear the importance of libraries, what it makes even more clear is the importance of conscientious citizens, like Jones, willing to speak up and stand up for their libraries.”

LA Times reviews Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Scribner): “Creation Lake confronts the horror of industrialization, the desire to retreat in the face of conflict, and the need to remain present for all that’s to come.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Daydream by Hannah Grace (Atria), the top holds title of the week. 

LJ has new prepub alerts. 

Publishers Lunch shares new books publishing this week.

Elisa Albert, The Snarling Girl and Other Essays (CLASH), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers. 

At People, Hannah Selinger previews her forthcoming memoir, Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly (Little, Brown), due out in March.

Vogue talks with Charlotte Shane about her new book, An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work (S. & S.). 

CrimeReads has “8 Brooding Gothic Mysteries Set On the British Isles.”

Authors on Air

O.O. Sangoyomi and Rita Woods talk about reclaiming history in their work on the Voyage Into Genre! podcast.

NPR’s Code Switch examines “what James Baldwin can teach us about Israel, and ourselves.”

NPR's Morning Edition talks with Brad Wilcox about his new book, Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization (Broadside).

Maggie Smith and Shze-Hui Tjoa discuss new ways of thinking about memoir on the Write-minded podcast.

Bad Bunny has joined the cast of Caught Stealing, based on the novel by Charlie Huston, Deadline reports.

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