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Awards & News

The Dublin Literary Award longlist is announced. 

Jose Ando and Yui Suzuki win Japan’s Akutagawa literary prize, and Shin Iyohara wins the Naoki Prize.

The Indie Book Awards shortlists are announced. Books+Publishing has details.

The Millions releases its “Great Winter 2025 Preview.”

Neil Gaiman responds to misconduct allegations, NYT reports. NPR, Washington Post, The Guardian and Entertainment Weekly, and People also cover the story. 

Diamond Comic Distributors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Publishers Lunch reports. The Verge also has coverage. 

Reviews

NYT reviews Going Home by Tom Lamont (Knopf): “Though at times the plot can feel a tad tidy, the sight of a few seams doesn’t take away from this funny and poignant, bittersweet and moving—yet never maudlin—debut.”

Washington Post reviews Good Girl by Aria Aber (Hogarth): “Good Girl is a brooding, claustrophobic story of alienation and erotic obsession, but plotting in the traditional sense is not a priority for Aber. This is more a wallowing than a journey.”

The Guardian reviews Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed To Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman by Brooke Shields with Rachel Bertsche (Flatiron): “For those readers in the throes of middle age, Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed To Get Old won’t change their life, but it might make them feel a little more understood.”

Datebook reviews We Do Not Part by Han Kang, tr. by e. yaewon & Paige Aniyah Morris (Hogarth; LJ starred review): “This novel is a rewarding endeavor, especially for readers familiar with Han’s oeuvre who can recognize it as a mosaic that artfully pieces together her long-simmering ideas on reckoning with historical atrocities, fighting to expose state-concealed truths and finding connection in our shared humanity despite inevitable suffering.”

Star Tribune reviews Three Days in June by Anne Tyler (Knopf): “Even if you’re new to Tyler’s work, you are likely to find it deeply familiar. Her deceptively simple style captures the cadence of the everyday, and you’ll want to stay in the warmth of her storytelling. Let it hug you, too, and don’t be afraid to give it a snuggle back."

LJ names four reviewers of the year for 2024.

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney (Flatiron), the top holds title of the week.

BookRiot predicts book trends for 2025.

Electric Lit suggests “9 Poetry Collections That Build Immersive Narrative Worlds.”

Marie Claire previews new and forthcoming mystery-thrillers.

NYT offers a guide to thrillers in 2025.

Aria Aber, author of Good Girl (Hogarth), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers. 

USA Today shares five takeaways from Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed To Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman by Brooke Shields with Rachel Bertsche (Flatiron). 

NPR shares five details from Pope Francis’w autobiography, Hope (Random). 

Rebecca Yarros talks with Elle about fame, Fourth Wing and her forthcoming novel, Onyx Storm (Entangled: Red Tower), due out next week.

Shane Burcaw and Hannah Burcaw talk with People about their newly published book, Interabled: True Stories About Love and Disability from Squirmy & Grubs and Other Interabled Couples (Roaring Brook).

Fox News Digital talks with Jinger Duggar Vuolo about her new memoir, People Pleaser: Breaking Free from the Burden of Imaginary Expectations, written with Julie Lyles Carr (Thomas Nelson). People also shares details from the book. 

Josh Gad announced he will donate a portion of the proceeds from his memoir In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some (Gallery) to wildfire victims. People has the story.

People shares an excerpt from Suzanne Collins’s forthcoming “Hunger Games” novel, Sunrise on the Reaping (Scholastic), due out March 18.

NYT talks with Gay Talese about his latest collection of writings, A Town Without Time: Gay Talese’s New York (Mariner Classics).

BBC has an interview with tidying guru Marie Kondo about how her 2014 book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up “cast its spell.”

Megan Collins, author of Cross My Heart (Atria), writes about the female stalker novel at CrimeReads.

Authors on Air

NPR’s Book of the Day highlights Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound by Kate Kennedy (Pegasus).

Gizmodo previews eight upcoming Stephen King adaptations.

The LitHub Podcast suggests some of the most anticipated books of 2025.

Jinger Duggar Vuolo, author of People Pleaser: Breaking Free from the Burden of Imaginary Expectations (Thomas Nelson), visits CBS Mornings.

Keke Palmer, author of Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative (Flatiron), visits GMA.

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