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Awards & News

The Publishing Triangle Awards finalists are announced.

The Kurd Laßwitz Preis shortlist is announced. Locus has details.

PEN America’s World Voices Festival and Literary Awards events will return this year after being cancelled in 2024; Publishers Weekly has the story.

AAP submits AI recommendations to the White House regarding the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Action Plan, Publishers Weekly reports. Publishing Perspectives and Publishers Lunch also have coverage.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer postpones several book events for Antisemitism in America: A Warning (Grand Central), citing security concerns, USA Today reports.

Reviews

NYT reviews Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic): “It is with great pleasure, then, that I can report that Sunrise on the Reaping is a propulsive, heart-wrenching addition to The Hunger Games, adding welcome texture to the cruel world of Panem.” NPR says: “If Collins’s political commentary is glaringly obvious, yet undeniably effective, so are the retcon-esque connections drawn between Haymitch and a number of familiar characters.” The Guardian also reviews: “Nothing reaches the heights of exhilaration of the first Hunger Games, but Sunrise on the Reaping contains enough both to snare new readers and to satisfy the most bloodthirsty fans”; as does People: “But what I really took from Sunrise on the Reaping is a reminder that Collins is awfully good at what she does—the sharp descriptions, the heart-pounding battles, the creative punishments and machinations in the Arena that make me wonder what goes on between her ears—and that readers of all ages would do well to take another trip to Panem.”

NYT also reviews Abundance by Ezra Klein (Avid Reader): “Klein and Thompson call for a renewed commitment to ‘the fiery creation of the new,’ suggesting that the opposite of austerity is an embrace of invention as a collective way of life. But they also seem ambivalent about whether creativity matters for its own sake or for the utopia it brings about”; Changing My Mind by Julian Barnes (Notting Hill): “To its credit, Changing My Mind never soars into Cloud Cuckoo Land. And to its detriment”; Firstborn: A Memoir by Lauren Christensen (Penguin Pr.): “The great accomplishment of this book is that I feel I have gotten to know and care for both tenacious people—perhaps Simone a little more than her mother, through her mother’s book”; and Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Riverhead; LJ starred review): “Gurnah’s stoic prose isn’t always well suited to the tragic, even operatic events that unfold as Karim, Fauzia and Badar make their way in 1980s Tanzania; the author’s genteel formality can feel anachronistic and awkward.” The Guardian also reviews Theft: “Set between his birthplace, Zanzibar, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, it’s a quietly powerful demonstration of storytelling mastery, at once coming-of-age chamber piece and wide-angled postcolonial panorama, pegged to the inner lives of its central trio—all teenagers followed into adulthood.”

NPR reviews The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (S. & S.; LJ starred review): “I said this is Stephen Graham Jones’s masterpiece because the prose is gorgeous and the plot is complex, engaging, and multilayered, but we have seen these elements from him before. Maybe I should say this is the novel in which Jones does all the things he does but even better than before.”

Washington Post reviews The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue (S. & S.: Summit): “If the steam engine is an astonishing feat of engineering, so is Donoghue’s propulsive and thought-provoking 16th novel”; and These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned To Talk and What It Means by Christopher Summerfield (Viking): “Those looking for heated arguments over AI’s moral valence can find it easily enough on social media. For those who want to better understand its workings, These Strange New Minds is a good place to start.”

Autostraddle reviews Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One by Kristen Arnett (Riverhead): “Arnett’s preternatural ability to construct narratives that gracefully and successfully remind us of the everyday absurdities of our humanity without fully condemning the way we wade through the muck of those absurdities is especially highlighted throughout the narrative.”

Briefly Noted

April’s LibraryReads List features top pick The Sirens by Emilia Hart (St. Martin’s).

LitHub highlights 25 new books for the week.

BookRiot suggests new books publishing this week.

ElectricLit shares seven comics about trauma.

People previews and shares a cover reveal of Jennifer Probst’s forthcoming “Outer Banks” novel The Reluctant Flirt (Blue Box), due out July 15.

Star Tribune looks at David Sheff’s new biography of Yoko Ono, Yoko: A Biography (S. & S.).

Emma Donoghue, The Paris Express (S. & S.: Summit), discusses writing for the page, screen, and stage with People.

Norwegian writer Dag Solstad has died at the age of 83; The Guardian has an obituary.

Authors on Air

Journalist Clay Risen talks with NPR’s Fresh Air about his latest book, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America (Scribner).

Martha Stewart chats with NPR’s Morning Edition about her 101st book, Martha Stewart’s Gardening Handbook: The Essential Guide to Designing, Planting, and Growing (Harvest). Stewart will also appear on Today tomorrow.

Macy’s has optioned Julie Satow’s When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion (Doubleday) for TV, Deadline reports.

A stage musical based on Eoin Colfer’s best-selling 2001 YA novel Artemis Fowl is in development, Playbill reports.

Hilton Carter, Wild Creations: Inspiring Projects To Create, Plus Plant Care Tips & Styling Ideas for Your Own Wild Interior (CICO), drops by The Tamron Hall Show tomorrow.

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