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Awards & Book News

The longlist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year is announced.

Poets & Writers releases its seventh annual selection of the best new memoirs and essay collections.

“Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” by R.S.A. Garcia (Uncanny, 7/23) wins the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short science fiction story; Locus has coverage.

Acclaimed Cree novelist Darrel J. McLeod, author most recently of A Season in Chezgh’un (Douglas & McIntyre), has died at age 67. CBC has an obituary.

Steve Silberman, author of Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity (Avery), has died at age 66; NYT has an obituary.

Page to Screen

September 6

The Thicket, based on the novel by Joe R. Lansdale. Samuel Goldwyn Films. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

LA Times reviews Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World by Parmy Olson (St. Martin’s): “Olson deserves praise for the remarkable journalistic accomplishment of chronicling a business battle while it is still taking place—indeed, still in its infancy. For all the timeliness of Supremacy, the question may be whether it has arrived too soon.”

Washington Post reviews Babe in the Woods: Or the Art of Getting Lost by Julie Heffernan (Algonquin):  “The art is intense and textured, and boasts a level of detail not often found in comics, for better or for worse…. The sheer magnitude of textures and overabundance of visual information become an invitation to linger, but to what end?”; America’s Deadliest Election: The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History by Dana Bash & David Fisher (Hanover Square): “In snappy and accessible prose, Bash and Fisher distill key themes…. America’s Deadliest Election is the kind of book that might generate fresh interest in our country’s brief post-Civil War attempt at creating a multiracial democracy”; and A New Philosophy of Opera by Yuval Sharon (Liveright: Norton): “A refreshing, reassuring book about an old art form’s bright future. As Yuval Sharon sees it, anyone who goes to an opera solely for the music might be indifferent to the performance’s other elements.”

The Guardian reviews Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd (Atlantic Monthly): “The book is a vivid re-creation of the early 1960s, and one of the pleasures it offers is a feeling of agreeable time travel to fascinating corners of a vanished world. These are conveyed with a filmic vibrancy.”

Briefly Noted

BBC interviews actor Gillian Anderson about the new essay collection she edited, Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous (Abrams).

The Rumpus talks to Sofia Samatar, author of Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life (Soft Skull).

Washington Post has a feature on Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, author of the memoir Lovely One (Random).

LitHub has a Q&A between poet Cynthia Zarin, author of Next Day: New and Selected Poems (Knopf), and her daughter, painter Rose Seccareccia.

NYT has “6 New Books We Recommend This Week.”

The Guardian recommends five of the best books translated from Polish.

Electric Lit lists 10 great books about the sea by writers of color.

Reactor rounds up “Six Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Books for Infinite Reading Possibilities.”

NYPL’s blog shares “what to read if you love Only Murders in the Building.”

Journalist Scott Huver will publish Beverly Hills Noir: Crime, Sin & Scandal in 90210 (Post Hill) on October 1, Deadline reports.

Page Street Publishing makes its first foray into adult fiction with a new line of horror titles for spring 2025, Publishers Weekly reports.

Authors on Air

CBC rounds up 25 movies inspired by books that are airing at TIFF 2024.

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