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Awards & Book News

Chris Whitaker’s All the Colors of the Dark (due out June 25 from Crown) is the new Read with Jenna book club pick; Kirkus has the news.

Jackie Wullschläger’s Monet: The Restless Vision (Knopf) wins the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography.

Jamaluddin Aram’s Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday (S. & S. Canada), Jérémie Harris’s Quantum Physics Made Me Do It: A Simple Guide to the Fundamental Nature of Everything (Viking), and Keziah Weir’s The Mythmakers (S. & S./Marysue Rucci) win the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes. CBC has coverage.

Shortlists are revealed for the Taste Canada Awards for the best in Canadian food writing; CBC has the news.

The lineup for the Library of Congress’s National Book Festival is announced, Kirkus reports.

“An analysis of diversity efforts in US book publishing in The Atlantic raises both successes and concerns for the industry,” Publishing Perspectives summarizes. The Atlantic article can be found here.

USA Today fact-checks the false claim that HarperCollins removed 64,000 words from an edition of the Bible.

Page to Screen

June 21

The Bikeriders, based on the photobook by Danny Lyons. Focus Features. Reviews | Trailer

Blackwater Lane, based on the novel The Breakdown by B.A. Paris. Lionsgate. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

NPR’s Fresh Air reviews Sandwich by Catherine Newman (Harper; LJ starred review): “Newman elegantly segues from Nora Ephron-like comic passages…to elegy…. Sandwich is my idea of the perfect summer novel: shimmering and substantive”; and When Women Ran Fifth Ave: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion by Julie Satow (Doubleday): “A treat for anyone like me who yearns to time travel back to some of those palaces of consumption at the height of their grandeur. But even more revelatory are the stories Satow excavates.”

Washington Post reviews Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World by Kelly Clancy (Riverhead): “A foreboding prehistory of AI. Clancy conveys how we became so in thrall to gaming that we forgot where the field of play stops and the real world begins—who gets to be a player and who is merely being played.”

NYT reviews The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing (Norton): “This isn’t a historical survey of gardening, much less a practical guide, so much as an inquiry into the idea of the garden—its history and poetics, its relationship to sex, imagination and power. Laing…is a natural hybridizer.”

LitHub gathers the best-reviewed books of the week.

Briefly Noted

John Mulaney will narrate the audiobook for former SNL writer Simon Rich’s forthcoming short story collection Glory Days; People has the news.

Carol Moseley Braun, the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate, will release a memoir, Trailblazer: Perseverance in Life and Politics, to be published by Hanover Square early next year, Kirkus reports.

DK has launched a new imprint, DK Red, focused on lifestyle publishing and narrative nonfiction, Publishers Weekly reports.

Deadline reports on the launch of Bindery Books, a publisher that has social media book tastemakers lead their own publishing imprints.

Frederick Seidel, author of So What: Poems (Farrar), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire, while Irvine Welsh, author of The Long Knives (Vintage), answers The Guardian’s “The Books of My Life” questionnaire.

CBC interviews Paul Scheer, author of Joyful Recollections of Trauma (HarperOne; LJ starred review).

LA Times talks to Emily Nussbaum, author of Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV (Random; LJ starred review).

NYT gathers “7 New Books We Recommend This Week” and six new paperbacks to read this week.

PBS Newshour shares two sets of recommended summer reads.

Actor Donald Sutherland, author of the forthcoming memoir Made Up, But Still True (due out Nov. 12 from Crown), has died at age 88. Deadline and NYT have obituaries.

Authors on Air

A director has been attached to an animated adaptation of Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi (Bloomsbury; LJ starred review); Deadline has the news.

Taika Waititi is in talks to direct a film adaptation of Percival Everett’s James (Doubleday; LJ starred review) for Universal, Deadline reports.

The rights to adapt Louis L’Amour’s 1963 Western novel Fallon have been acquired, according to Deadline. 

AudioFile’s Behind the Mic podcast talks to audiobook narrator Kate Reading.

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