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Awards & News

The 2023 Colorado Book Awards winners are announced.

LJ previews the 2023 ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago. ALA’s Call Number podcast also has a guide to the city.

Elizabeth Gilbert’s decision to remove her forthcoming novel, set in Russia, from publication garners significant media coverage. NYT, People, NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, and the Washington Post all have coverage.

A new Illinois law will outlaw book bans in public and school libraries. AP reports.

Publishing Perspectives reports from the Beijing International Book Fair.

Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan steps down after nine years. PBS Canvas reports.

Reviews

NYT reviews Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie (Algonquin): “Peace Adzo Medie uses the metaphor of financial debt and its collection to describe the domestic disputes and traumas within a trans-Atlantic clan that stretches from provincial Ghana to the capital, Accra, to the suburbs of Washington, D.C.”; My Stupid Intentions by Bernardo Zannoni, tr. by Alex Andriesse (NYRB): “The novel’s musings about free will and suffering are murky, but there’s a powerful, cold clarity in Archy’s deadly encounters with other animals and the reflexive malice he brings to them”; A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation by Rachel Louise Martin (S. & S.): “Given the constant threat of racism to our democracy, including worsening school segregation in districts across the country and the bans in certain states on books about systemic inequality, who is to say that Martin is wrong to leave her readers so overwhelmed by despair?”; Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah Willis (Norton): “Every detail is sharply placed by Willis, who has a scorching sense of humor and a soft spot for humanity down here on Earth”; Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America’s Revolutions by Mattie Kahn (Viking): “The book is packed with stories of young women like her, girls whose efforts were documented but have not been popularized, and whose introductions leave you wanting more”; and I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore (Knopf): “Moore stretches for deeper themes in this novel, and of course they’re there: It’s a book about loss, and about the patience and endurance it takes to treat the dying with respect, and about the shaggy and multiform varieties of love.” Plus, there are short reviews of three debuts which deal with the cost of belonging.

The Washington Post reviews Reproduction by Louisa Hall (Ecco): “It becomes more difficult to see Hall’s novel’s lack of focus as meaningful, however, once she attempts to mirror Shelley’s portrait of the dangers of scientific advancement.”

NPR reviews “5 new mysteries and thrillers for the start of summer.”

Briefly Noted

USA Today highlights Paul McCartney’s new book of photographs, 1964: Eyes of the Storm (Liveright: Norton; LJ starred review). Esquire also explores the new book of never-before-seen photos.

LA Times talks with Christine Pride and Jo Piazza about their writing partnership and new novel, You Were Always Mine (Atria).

NYT has a feature on Rose Styron and her new memoir, Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart (Knopf).

Datebook has an interview with Frances Haugen about her new book, The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook (Little, Brown), and the dangers of social media.

Luis Alberto Urrea, Good Night, Irene (Little, Brown), writes about “Learning to Tell My Mother’s War Story,” at Time.

LitHub shares 26 new books for the week.

The Guardian rounds up the best recent thrillers.

Parade lists “11 New Romance Books for Anyone Who Loves Love.”

LitHub has a “Reading List of Novels Inspired by Other Art Forms.”

Authors On Air

Christian Cooper discusses his new book, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World (Random), and being “a Black man in the natural world,” with NPR’s Fresh Air.

NPR’s Morning Edition talks with Paul McCartney about his new book of photographs, 1964: Eyes of the Storm (Liveright: Norton; LJ starred review).

Pulitzer- and Tony Award–winning playwright and composer Michael R. Jackson gives his “Brief but Spectacular Take” on writing, on PBS Canvas.

Dick Clark Productions, Eldridge acquire Golden Globes; HFPA will wind down. GMA reports.

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