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Awards & News

Anne de Marcken wins the Ursula LeGuin Prize for Fiction for It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over (New Directions). 

Margaret Owen wins the Endeavour Award for Painted Devils (Holt). 

Winners of the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards are announced. CBC has details. 

President Biden awards the 2022 and 2023 National Humanities Medals. Recipients include authors Joy Harjo Juan Felipe Herrera, Roz Chast, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Anthony Bourdain, and Jon Meacham and literacy advocate LeVar Burton. 

OverDrive has launched the new Cleveland-inspired imprint Heights Press.

The Cut writes about Grandparents for Truth, which fights against book bans.

Reviews

NYT reviews Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway (Viking): “Late in the novel we are still hearing that Smiley is dreaming of ‘a world in which the conflict between two absolutely opposed ideas of well-being was fought within limits.’” The Guardian also reviews: “You needn’t be a le Carré nut to enjoy it, though, and while we’re undoubtedly in something of a glut of sequels and reboots, it’s far from unimaginative fan service.”’

Washington Post reviews Patriot by Alexei Navalny (Knopf): “He brings a wry and sensible touch to a range of subjects, from his denunciations of corruption to his meticulous efforts to brew a decent cup of coffee in prison”; Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer (MCD): “It’s VanderMeer’s achievement to show that, when it comes to long-form horror, there’s good disappointment and bad”; and The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession by Amy Stewart (Random): “If you are already interested in trees, this is a charming, browsable book that’s filled with the color and surprise of an actual forest. If you are not, it may lure you into our leafy ranks.”

Briefly Noted

LitHub highlights 24 new books for the week. 

Parade shares “The 27 Best Coffee Table Books of 2024…So Far.”

BookRiot compiles Halloween reading lists. 

ElectricLit shares “7 Books Channeling the Mythic Horror of Girlhood.”

Autostraddle suggests “Which Queer Horror Book To Read Based on Your Favorite Scary Movie.”

At USA Today, One Tree Hill actress Bethany Joy Lenz discusses her memoir, Dinner for Vampires (S. & S.), which recounts how she ended up in a cult. LA Times also talks with Lenz about coming to terms with her past. 

LA Times has an interview with Jenny Slate about her new book of essays, Lifeform (Little, Brown). People also talks with Slate about the duality of motherhood. 

Nick Harkaway discusses “carrying on his father’s legacy with a new le Carré novel”, Karla’s Choice (Viking), at CrimeReads. 

Creator of the Well-Read Black Girl book club Glory Edim talks about her book, Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me (Ballantine), with LA Times.

People shares details from Elliot Mintz’s new book, We All Shine On: John, Yoko, and Me (Dutton).

The Daily Show host Michael Kosta announces a new memoir, Lucky Loser: Adventures in Tennis and Comedy (Harper Influence), due out in March. People has the story.

LA Times talks with Alex van Halen about his new book, Brothers (Harper).

Charles Baxter, Blood Test: A Comedy (Pantheon), takes the Lit Hub questionnaire. 

A long-lost Bram Stoker short story has been discovered. BBC has the story.

Authors on Air

A new series adaptation of Stephen King’s 1974 novel Carrie is in the works at Amazon MGM Studios. GMA has the story. 

BookRiot shares “Book-to-Screen Adaptations You Might Have Missed This Year.”

Tom Parker Bowles, Cooking and the Crown: Royal Recipes from Queen Victoria to King Charles III (Ten Speed), will appear on the Today Show.

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