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Awards & Book News

The Publishing Triangle (an association of LGBTQIA+ people in publishing) announces the finalists for its annual awards.

Sabrin Hasbun’s forthcoming memoir Wait for Her: A Family Memoir Between Italy and Palestine (due out in 2025) wins the inaugural Footnote x Counterpoints Writing Prize for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds, The Bookseller reports.

Marlene Harris (a librarian, an LJ reviewer, and the author of ReadingReality.net) and LibraryReads win RUSA’s CODES Louis Shores Awards.

EarlyWord publishes a round-up of the March 7 GalleyChat.

Page to Screen

March 29

Asphalt City, based on the novel Black Flies by Shannon Burke. Vertical Entertainment. Reviews | Trailer

A Gentleman in Moscow, based on the novel by Amor Towles. Paramount+. Reviews | Trailer

Heart of the Hunter, based on the novel by Deon Meyer. Netflix. Reviews | Trailer

The Wages of Fear, based on the novel by Georges Arnaud. Netflix. Reviews | Trailer

April 2

Someone Like You, based on the novel by Karen Kingsbury. Fathom Events. Reviews | Trailer

April 4

Ripley, based on The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. Netflix. Reviews | Trailer

The Tearsmith, based on the novel by Erin Doom. Netflix. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

Washington Post reviews three memoirs that “tell stories of struggle and resilience”: This American Ex-Wife by Lyz Lenz (Crown), Everywhere the Undrowned by Stephanie Clare Smith (Univ. of North Carolina), and The Manicurist’s Daughter by Susan Lieu (Celadon); four books about stoicism: Right Thing, Right Now by Ryan Holiday (Portfolio), The Stoic Mindset: Living the Ten Principles of Stoicism by Mark Tuitert (St. Martin’s Essentials), Stoicism for Dummies by Tom Morris and Gregory Bassham (For Dummies), and Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor by Donald J. Robertson (Yale Univ.); and The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle by Anna Shechtman (HarperOne; LJ starred review): “Shechtman, a witty and crisp stylist, evidently relishes [language’s] sensuality. She is almost lovingly attuned to all its awkward oddities.”

NYT reviews the audiobook of The Adversary by Michael Crummey (Books on Tape): “There’s something gloriously grim about Michael Crummey’s novels…. The splendor comes from Crummey’s canny doling out of plot turns and character twists, and from his language—a mix of Newfoundland peculiarities, scriptural quotations and Anglo-Saxon swearing.”

The Millions reviews Worry by Alexandra Tanner (Scribner): “Worry asks how we might change our perception of illness’s role in intimate relationships if we acknowledge that for many families, illness is the status quo.”

LitHub rounds up March’s best-reviewed fiction, nonfiction, and audiobooks.

Briefly Noted

Rebecca Yarros announces Onyx Storm, the third book in the Empyrean series, due out Jan. 21, 2025, from Entangled; People has the news.

Small Press Distribution, one of the last remaining independent distributors in the U.S., is shutting down; Publishers Weekly explores the implications.

Kirkus interviews Percival Everett, author of James (Doubleday; LJ starred review).

Vogue talks to Christina Cooke, author of Broughtupsy (Catapult).

CBC speaks with Shilpi Somaya Gowda, author of A Great Country (Mariner).

The Rumpus speaks with Susan Lieu, author of The Manicurist’s Daughter (Celadon).

NYT talks to Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Penguin Pr.).

CrimeReads interviews Brendan Flaherty about his new novel, The Dredge (Atlantic Monthly).

Bustle has a Q&A with Marie-Helene Bertino, author of Beautyland (Farrar). Electric Lit also talks to Bertino.

NYT selects “8 New Books We Recommend This Week,” six new papersbacks to read this week, and 17 new books coming in April.

LitHub recommends “5 Novels of Generational Wealth and Income Inequality.”

CrimeReads highlights “four books in which children are accused—and their parents wrestle with the truth.”

Electric Lit rounds up “9 Short Story Collections About Women’s Bodies.”

CrimeReads gets reacquainted with the novels of Elizabeth Fenwick.

Nobel Prize–winning psychologist and author Daniel Kahneman has died at 90; Publishers Weekly has an obituary.

Authors on Air

NPR interviews Alexandra Tanner, author of Worry (Scribner).

NPR’s Fresh Air talks to Nancy A. Nichols, author of Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car (Pegasus).

Universal TV acquires rights to the “Rebel Blue Ranch” romance series by Lyla Sage, Deadline reports.

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