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Awards & Book News

Naomi Shihab Nye wins the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award for lifetime achievement, and Evie Shockley wins the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, LitHub reports.

The shortlist has been unveiled for the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers.

Kate McKinnon will host the 75th National Book Awards, Publishers Weekly reports.

Han Kang declined a celebratory press conference for her Nobel Prize in Literature amid global wars, the Korea Herald reports.

Page to Screen

October 18

Kensuke’s Kingdom, based on the children’s book by Michael Morpurgo. Blue Fox Entertainment. Reviews | Trailer

Rivals, based on the novel by Jilly Cooper. Hulu. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

NPR’s Fresh Air reviews Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán, tr. by Sophie Hughes (Riverhead): “There are so many sentences in this closely observed novel where an image or comment suddenly swerves matters from the mundane to the revelatory.”

NYT reviews The Absinthe Forger: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal, and the World’s Most Dangerous Spirit by Evan Rail (Melville House): “Along with the promised detective story, delivers a lively stand-alone seminar on temptation—as well as the culture and history of the much-maligned liquor and its reputation for causing madness and murder.”

LA Times reviews The Indian Card: Who Gets To Be Native in America by Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz (Flatiron): “Schuettpelz gathers the testimonies of individuals about bonds that tie them to their tribe and how membership grounds them.”

Washington Post reviews Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut by Elsa Richardson (Pegasus): “In addition to its many charms as a source of information, Rumbles is a compelling compendium of ideas. Its discussion of gut disease as an emblem of modernity leaves readers with much to digest”; and Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions by John Grisham & Jim McCloskey (Doubleday): “Yet what makes this book important reading isn’t the shock value advertised in the title. It’s the exposure of the infuriating, recurrent factors involved in so many unrighteous convictions.”

LitHub gathers “5 Book Reviews You Need To Read This Week” and the best-reviewed books of the week.

Briefly Noted

Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of The Third Realm, tr. by Martin Aitken (Penguin Pr.; LJ starred review) shares “The Books of My Life” with The Guardian.

NYT explains how Sanora Babb’s interviews about the Dust Bowl informed Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, the subject of a new book by Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb (Univ. of California).

Siri Hustvedt is writing a memoir about her late husband, Paul Auster, The Guardian reports.

Random House will publish YA novelist Ayana Gray’s adult fantasy debut, I, Medusa, in fall 2025; Publishers Weekly has the news.

Suleika Jaouad’s forthcoming The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life (due out from Random House in spring 2025) will explore the art of journaling, People reports.

Marvel Premier Collection, a new line of trade paperbacks aimed at providing an accessible entry point for comics newcomers, will launch in February with classic works by Frank Miller and Ta-Nehesi Coates, Publishers Weekly reports.

The University of Cincinnati Press will shut down operations on June 25, Publishers Weekly reports.

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

LitHub recommends “The 10 Best Books for Understanding the Opioid Crisis.”

CrimeReads has a list of “witchy” books.

USA Today shares “9 sports romance books perfect for fall football season reading.”

Authors on Air

The LitHub Podcast has a conversation about reading horror and “other weird books.”

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