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Awards, News & Events

The Joyce Carol Oates Prize finalists are announced.

Manya Wilkinson wins the Wingate Literary Prize for Lublin (And Other Stories).

Oprah selects The Tell: A Memoir by Amy Griffin (Dial) for her book club.

Bloomsbury announces a new science fiction and fantasy imprint, Bloomsbury Archer, which will publish Samantha Shannon’s Among the Burning Flowers in September.

Rebecca Yarros’s bestselling “Empyrean” series will be released as graphic novels in a new six-book deal with Ten Speed Graphic, Piatkus, and Entangled Publishing, The Bookseller reports.

Penguin will publish a definitive annotated edition of Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch. The Bookseller has the story.

LA Times Festival of Books, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, previews its author lineup.

The Guardian reveals the Hay Festival lineup.

USA Today shares an infographic on banned books.

Julia Sommerfeld is named Amazon’s worldwide publisher, Publishers Weekly reports.

Reviews

NYT reviews The Antidote by Karen Russell (Knopf; LJ starred review): “Russell’s ambitious and exciting novel, like all good historical fiction, makes a powerful case for never forgetting. Erasure is a form of combat, but so is remembering”; Brother Brontë by Fernando A. Flores (MCD): “The dystopia situated in Three Rivers, Texas, in Fernando A. Flores’s marvelous new novel, Brother Brontë, is a recognizable, if hyperbolic (and not by much), facsimile of today’s flagrant realities”; and The Next One Is for You: A True Story of Guns, Country, and the IRA’s Secret American Army by Ali Watkins (Little, Brown): “In The Next One Is for You, an informative and well-researched account of the Troubles—the lenient name attached to a bitter internecine struggle—and their reverberations in America, the New York Times reporter Ali Watkins describes the treaty as a ‘devil’s bargain’.”

Washington Post reviews Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories by Torrey Peters (Random): “Under a government intent on erasing trans people, Peters’s book is important, but putting aside for a moment the weight of that unasked-for responsibility, Stag Dance is a marvelous follow-up to a tremendous debut”; and We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine by Alissa Wilkinson (Liveright: Norton): “There are enough such moments to make We Tell Ourselves worthwhile to Didion stans and lay readers alike, but one can’t help but wish for the very things Didion herself might have abhorred: a little more looseness and freedom in the telling, and a little less control.”

LA Times reviews O Sinners! by Nicole Cuffy (One World): “One of the most engrossing elements of Nicole Cuffy’s second novel, O Sinners!, is how it dwells comfortably in the fuzziness, making for both a clever literary mystery novel and a meditation on the nature of faith.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman (Putnam), the top holds title of the week.

Reactor shares “5 Underrated Books About Bad-Ass Women.”

Eater highlights “The 20 Best Cookbooks of Spring.”

ElectricLit has “7 Novels About Women Over 40.”

NPR recommends new books for the week.

CBC previews 27 Canadian comics publishing this spring.

BookRiot suggests 12 book club picks for the month.

People previews Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns’s forthcoming book, The American Revolution: An Intimate History (Knopf), which publishes November 11, five days ahead of its companion six-part PBS documentary series.

Mariam Rahmani, Liquid: A Love Story (Algonquin; LJ starred review), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers.

Torrey Peters talks with People about her new book, Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories (Random), and “the realities of trans representation.”

Elliot Ackerman, author of 2054 (Penguin), which arrives in paperback this week, recommends books about war and duty at The Week.

Matt Kracht, A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever (Chronicle), ranks his five least favorite birds at People.

Authors on Air

NPR’s Fresh Air chats with NYT editor David Enrich, Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful (Mariner), about recent legal challenges to journalists.

NPR’s Code Switch talks with Betty Shamieh about her novel Too Soon (Avid Reader).

Stephen King’s bestselling novel Cujo will be adapted into a new feature film at Netflix, Deadline reports.

Director Paul Feig talks with People about his forthcoming adaptation of Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid (Grand Central).

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