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Awards & News

Fiona McFarlane wins the Story Prize for Highway Thirteen: Stories (Farrar).

Ann Regan is the winner of the Kay Sexton Award.

Gustavo Bondoni wins the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award, Locus reports.

The shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction is announced, The Guardian reports.

Recipients of the Writing Freedom Fellowship are announced. LitHub has the story.

Jenna Bush Hager selects Heartwood by Amity Gaige (S. & S.) for her April book club.

The 2025 Tournament of Books semifinal round is underway; today’s match is The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft (Bloomsbury; LJ starred review) vs. Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe (Morrow).

ALA has named Lisa Varga (executive director of the Virginia Library Association and an LJ Librarian of the Year) to succeeed Alan Inouye in leading its Public Policy and Advocacy Office, LJ reports.

Penguin Random House’s Banned on the Run initiative raises $10,000 for the Freedom To Read Foundation, Publishing Perspectives reports.

NYPL opens the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne archive today. NPR’s Morning Edition provides a glimpse, Vulture takes a look, and NYT has a feature story.

Reviews

Washington Post reviews Heartwood by Amity Gaige (S. & S.): “Gaige’s fifth novel is a thriller that could work without a recollection of the pandemic but draws its resonance from our shared memory of that ordeal.”

NYT reviews There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone (Crown): "There Is No Place for Us is a moving book. It is also appropriately enraging."

LA Times reviews Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne (Scribner): “Post-Holocaust memoirs are often quest stories, and Dunthorne juxtaposes his attempts to uncover the truth, or some approximation of it, with a fragmentary narrative of Siegfried Merzbacher’s life.”

The Guardian reviews Free: My Search for Meaning by Amanda Knox (Grand Central): “For Knox, being free isn’t just about not being behind bars—it is about being seen and understood.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Lethal Prey by John Sandford (Putnam), the top holds title of the week.

USA Today shares “5 books about forgotten female heroes.”

ElectricLit has “7 Folkloric Novels About Humans Merging with Nature.”

CrimeReads has an interview with Tess Gerritsen about senior crime solvers and her new book, The Summer Guests (Thomas & Mercer).

Seattle Times talks with Abby Jimenez about her newest book, Say You'll Remember Me (Forever; LJ starred review), which publishes next week.

Slate looks at the resurgence of interest in Neil Postman’s 1985 book, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Penguin Pr.).

Datebook dives into Sarah Wynn-Williams’s Facebook memoir, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Flatiron).

USA Today talks with Gregory Maguire about his eighth and newest “Wicked” book, Elphie: A Wicked Childhood (Morrow), out this week. People also has an interview with Maguire.

In People, Raffi Grinberg shares tips from his new book, How To Be a Grown Up: The 14 Essential Skills You Didn’t Know You Needed (Until Just Now) (Chronicle Prism).

Book Riot reflects on 20 years since the publication of Jeannette Walls’s memoir The Glass Castle (Scribner).

Washington Post profiles John Green and the tour for his new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Crash Course).

The Guardian asks: “Flannery O’Connor at 100: should we still read her?”

Authors on Air

Brian Goldstone discusses his book, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Crown), and housing insecurity" with B&N’s Poured Over podcast.

PBS Canvas talks with Graydon Carter about his new book, When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines with James Fox (Penguin Pr.).

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