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Awards, Buzzy Books & Adaptation News

Fred C. Trump, a nephew of Donald Trump, will publish a memoir, All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way (Gallery), on July 30, NYT reports.

Cécile Wajsbrot wins the Tišma International Literary Prize. Publishing Perspectives has the story.

The Frank R. Paul Award Nominees are announced. Locus has details. 

Publishers Weekly rounds up book club picks for June, as does BookRiot.

Earlyword’s June GalleyChat spreadsheet is out now.

Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are in talks to star in a Practical Magic sequel, Deadline reports. The original film was directed by Griffin Dunne and adapted from Alice Hoffman’s 1995 novel. USA Today and GMA also have coverage.

Reviews

NYT reviews Ask Me Again by Clare Sestanovich (Knopf): “Sestanovich can be wonderfully observant about sexual dynamics, as in an exactingly described round of post-breakup sexting and a surprising election-night hookup; and, as in her stories, her protagonists’ palpable disappointment with the world is endearing, even if its source isn’t always clear”; One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon (Knopf): “One of Our Kind is a slim book with short chapters and a freight-train feel. It fits in with a recent wave of Black social horror that includes novels like The Other Black Girl and movies like Get Out—works that contrast the camaraderie of the Black community with the terror of the darker parts of the Black experience in America through a slightly speculative lens”; Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe (Morrow): “She sells us on both the characters and the plot, and her refusal to moralize, her ability to get behind her characters despite their mess and fecklessness—if Thorpe gives up her day job, she’d make a great counselor—means that there are no tonal lurches”; and The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir by Cory Leadbeater (Ecco): “There’s a gentle restraint to Uptown Local—a quick read, at barely over 200 pages—that partly redeems it. Such a book could easily exploit the hunger for revelations about Didion, but Leadbeater avoids that impulse.” Washington Post also reviews: “This book’s well-wrought sentences mostly carry it forward despite loose plotting, but there are times when it stumbles due to uneven pacing.”

Washington Post reviews Tiananmen Square by Lai Wen (Spiegel & Grau): “While lengthy, the novel is worthwhile, and not just because of the anniversary of one of the most infamous protest crackdowns in modern history”; Exhibit by R.O. Kwon (Riverhead): “Kwon is reserved; she doesn’t give her reader any more than what’s required, and Exhibit is brief, at just about 200 pages. This kind of writing can disguise an athletic literary talent”; Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution by Anne Higonnet (Norton): “To look at their intertwined lives together is an innovative and productive approach, and they couldn’t ask for a more passionate champion than Higonnet”; and The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne (Penguin Pr.): “Griffin mainly occupies the role of son and brother—a bit player in his own story—allowing his larger-than-life parents and the life they constructed to take the lead. Now 69, a husband and father with a long string of professional achievements to his credit, Griffin can afford to let the light shine on his storied family.”

NPR reviews Consent: A Memoir by Jill Ciment (Pantheon): “You don't have to read Half a Life to appreciate Consent. In fact, the second memoir, which both scrutinizes and amplifies what Ciment first wrote about her relationship with Arnold, is a far more interesting book.”

LA Times reviews Bruce Willis: Celebrating the Cinematic Legacy of an Unbreakable Hollywood Icon by Sean O'Connell (Applause): “It’s hard not to read O’Connell’s book as a valediction of sorts, though it is also, as the title suggests, a celebration.”

Briefly Noted

LitHub highlights 26 new books for the week.

BookRiot also has notable new releases this week, as does Parade.

People selects “Dad Books for Father’s Day.”

BookRiot highlights LGBTQIA+ romantasy books, 10 STEM romances, and new SFF for June. 

ElectricLit has “10 Feminist Crime Novels Subverting the Dead Girl Trope.”

The Guardian shares the best crime thrillers of the month.

People selects the best Elin Hilderbrand books for the summer.

ElectricLit talks with Clare Sestanovich about her new novel, Ask Me Again (Knopf), and how her short stories impacted it.

Esquire talks with Zach Williams, Beautiful Days: Stories (Doubleday), about “Why It’s a Vital Time for Short Stories.”

Damali Peterman, Negotiating While Black: Be Who You Are To Get What You Want (Putnam), shares master negotiating tips at Ebony.

People talks with comedy writer Ian Karmel about his memoir, T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People (Rodale).

CBC shares that Ursula K. Le Guin’s home will become a writers residency.

CrimeReads considers “Queering Crime Stories: Establishing a New Order in Mysteries and Thrillers.”

NYT marks the legacy of Thomas Harris’s Hannibal, which published 25 years ago. 

Authors on Air

Griffin Dunne talks about his book The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir (Penguin Pr.) on NPR’s Fresh Air.

LitHub has “The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in June.”

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