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Awards & Book News

Costanza Casati’s Clytemnestra (Sourcebooks Landmark) wins the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, The Bookseller reports.

David Waldstreicher wins the George Washington Prize for The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence (Farrar).

Winners of the Alberta Book Publishing Awards are announced.

Page to Screen

September 27

Apartment 7A, based on Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin. Paramount+. Reviews | Trailer

Hellboy: The Crooked Man, based on associated titles. Millennium Films. Reviews | Trailer

Lee, based on The Lives of Lee Miller by Antony Penrose. StudioCanal. Reviews | Trailer

Rez Ball, based on Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation by Michael Powell. Netflix. Reviews | Trailer

October 3

Salem’s Lot, based on the novel by Stephen King. Max. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

Washington Post reviews Life in the Key of G: One Note at a Time by Kenny G with Philip Lerman (Blackstone): “This is an exceedingly strange book, by a disquietingly strange man who holds a uniquely strange place in popular music. Readers may be struck by the heavy thud of dropped names, the quiet boasting, the many lame sax jokes…and Mr. G’s insistent, tone-deaf habit of referring to himself in the third person”; and Stench: The Making of the Thomas Court and the Unmaking of America by David Brock (Knopf): “The book swells with outrage and sometimes overstatement, which will presumably appeal to some readers, but a more somber, measured approach might have convinced an even greater number.”

LitHub gathers September’s best-reviewed fiction and “five book reviews you need to read this week.”

Briefly Noted

Fox Sports commentator and former NFL player Emmanuel Acho talks with Washington Post about his books, including Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man (Flatiron).

The Millions has a Q&A with Lauren Elkin, author of Scaffolding (Farrar).

CrimeReads hosts a conversation between Lilliam Rivera, author of Tiny Threads (Del Rey), and Delilah S. Dawson, author of Guillotine (Titan).

Garth Greenwell, author of Small Rain (Farrar), shares his “Annotated Nightstand” with LitHub.

Elizabeth Strout, author of Tell Me Everything (Random), shares “The Books of My Life” with The Guardian.

Washington Post examines the new younger generation that’s reading Robert Caro’s The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Vintage).

Graydon Carter’s memoir, When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines, will be published by Penguin Press in spring 2025, Kirkus reports.

NYT has “7 New Books We Recommend This Week.”

NYT rounds up 21 new books coming in October.

CrimeReads gathers September’s best psychological thrillers.

Authors on Air

The new episode of The LitHub Podcast talks about banned books and “Rooneymania.”

Netflix has greenlit a limited series based on John Steinbeck’s East of Eden; Deadline has the news.

The rights to Amy Chozick’s forthcoming novel Some Part of Her have been acquired, Deadline reports.

LitHub recommends “The Literary Film and TV You Need To Stream in October.”

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