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Awards, News & Previews

The Millions shares “The Great Spring Preview.”

LJ provides a graphic novel preview and online listing of forthcoming titles.

May’s LibraryReads list arrives, featuring top pick The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers, with Alex Kiester (Bantam).

The Guggenheim Memorial Foundation class of fellows are announced. LitHub has coverage.

The Aurealis Awards shortlist is announced.

Finalists for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards are announced.

NPR reviews an official memo sent to U.S. Army libraries, ordering books with a focus on DEI or “gender ideology” to be removed.

Seven Stories Press has acquired Two Dollar Radio, Publishers Weekly reports.

Simon & Schuster will distribute C&T Publishing in the U.S. and Canada starting June 1, Shelf Awareness reports.

Reviews

NYT reviews I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts That Helped Them Escape the Holocaust by Julian Borger (Other Pr.; LJ starred review): “Julian Borger’s haunting, revelatory book exists in the shadow of a parent who, like many survivors, spoke little about his past. Part of Borger’s task is to illuminate that anguishing tension between forgetting and remembering.”

Washington Post reviews Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus by Elaine Pagels (Doubleday): “Regardless of what you believe—or don’t believe—this is an author hoping to convince you of nothing but the ‘outburst of hope’ conveyed by the multitudinous voices of Jesus’s early followers—voices that have too often been unfairly, ignorantly and sometimes violently misrepresented.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Strangers in Time by David Baldacci (Grand Central), the top holds title of the week.

NPR highlights five notable new books for the week.

CrimeReads shares the five best debut crime novels of the month.

People recommends “10 Mystery Novels Inspired By Real Events.”

BookRiot previews spring releases by Latine authors.

Electric Lit suggests nine books of long poems.

Reactor has “Five Books Featuring World-Changing Visionaries.”

People previews and shares a cover reveal for Happy People Don’t Live Here by Amber Sparks (Liveright), due out October 14.

At OprahDaily, author Jean Hanff Korelitz offers “six tips for starting (and maintaining) a thriving book club.”

Julia Elliott, Hellions: Stories (Tin House), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers.

USA Today highlights The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose (Blackstone).

Authors on Air

Melinda French Gates talks with NPR’s Fresh Air about her new memoir, The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward (Flatiron). French Gates also answers Elle’s “Shelf Life” literary questionnaire.

Jenn Hildreth and Aimee Leone, coauthors of Tough as a Mother: Women in Sports, Working Moms, and the Shared Traits That Empower Us All (Triumph), discuss their book with Fox & Friends.

Will Leitch’s novel Lloyd McNeil’s Last Ride (Harper) will be adapted for the big screen, Deadline reports.

Authors Laura Lippman and Megan Abbott will cowrite a TV series adaptation of Lippman’s Tess Monaghan books. Deadline has the story.

Actress Jessica Chastain will star in an adaptation of Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman (Del Rey). Deadline has details.

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