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Awards & News

The British Book Awards are announced; Publishing Perspectives has coverage. Percival Everett is named Author of the Year and his book James (Doubleday; LJ starred review) also wins Fiction Book of the Year. Patriot by Alexei Navalny (Knopf) wins Overall Book of the Year and narrative nonfiction book of the year. Asako Yuzuki is awarded the debut fiction prize for Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder (Ecco: HarperCollins). Margaret Atwood discussed the threat to words as she accepted the Freedom To Publish Prize, The Guardian reports.

The PEN America Literary Awards winners are announced.

The Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist is announced.

The shortlist for Wales’s Book of the Year is announced. BBC has details.

Finalists for the DAG Prize for Literature are announced.

HarperVia will launch a pocket-sized paperbacks imprint, Nomad Editions, in November, Publishers Weekly reports.

Trump has named a new acting librarian of Congress, NPR reports. Washington Post has coverage. Infodocket rounds up details.

AAP’s CEO Maria A. Pallante weighs in on the LOC and Copyright Office firings at Publishing Perspectives. Politico reports on questions over the moves from congressional leaders.

Reviews

NYT reviews Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson (Ecco): “Run for the Hills is a touching and generous romp of a novel, a sort of lighthearted family heist in which the anticipated grift is simply a meeting (or confrontation?) with the characters’ father”; A Sharp Endless Need by Marisa Crane (Dial): “Most of the book focuses on the misery and destruction of desire, but despite its title, A Sharp Endless Need offers the possibility that unsatisfied wanting does not always have to cut and curse, at least not endlessly”; two books on the paramilitary Wagner Group: Death Is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare by John Lechner (Bloomsbury) and Putin’s Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia’s Collapse into Mercenary Chaos by Candace Rondeaux (PublicAffairs); and Mark Twain by Ron Chernow (Penguin Pr.; LJ starred review): “Chernow’s biography has clothes and buttons galore but misplaces the man. The whip of Twain’s wit is here, but it’s laid out like slides in a biology class.” The Atlantic also reviews the latter: “Ron Chernow’s biography dwells more on the wreck of a man than on his sublimely comic work.”

The Guardian reviews The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong (Penguin Pr.): “Heartbreaking, heartwarming yet unsentimental, and savagely comic all at the same time, The Emperor of Gladness is about just how wobbly things can become.”

Briefly Noted

LitHub highlights 27 new books for the week.

NPR shares six new books out this week.

BookRiot recommends new releases and six meet-cute romances.

Shelf Awareness shares the top-selling self-published titles last week.

CrimeReads suggests six great puzzle novels.

ElectricLit highights “9 Books That Center Asexuality.”

Washington Post takes a tour of Isabel Allende’s home library.

People previews and shares a cover reveal of comedian and former doctor Adam Kay’s forthcoming debut novel, A Particularly Nasty Case (Mulholland), which arrives September 16.

LA Times talks with Michelle Huneven about losing two homes to wildfire and her forthcoming novel, Bug Hollow (Penguin Pr.), which publishes on June 17.

At Vanity Fair, Molly Jong-Fast shares an excerpt from her forthcoming book, How To Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir (Viking), due out June 3.

Authors on Air

Barry Diller discusses his forthcoming memoir, Who Knew (S. & S.), with CBS Sunday Morning. CBS shares an excerpt of the book, which publishes next week.

Ocean Vuong discusses The Emperor of Gladness (Penguin Pr.) on B&N’s Poured Over podcast.

A forthcoming novel by Beauty and the Beast writer Evan Spiliotopoulos, The Museum of Cursed Artifacts, will be adapted for film, Variety reports.

Independent Film Company has acquired the North American rights to the adaptation of Isabel Greenberg’s bestselling graphic novel The One Hundred Nights of Hero (Little, Brown). Variety has the story.

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