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Awards and News

Congress unveils a new USPS forever stamp honoring Civil Rights icon and author John Lewis. Essence has details. ABC News reports.

The 2023 Yoto Carnegie Medals winners are announced. The Guardian has coverage. 

The Academy of American Poets names Ricardo Alberto Maldonado its next executive director and president. NPR reports. 

Richard Hurowitz partners with Mubadala Investment Co. on a bid for Simon & Schuster. WSJ reports. 

Formerly shuttered literary magazine Bookforum will return to print in August with new partner The Nation. NYT reports. Bookforum announced its relaunch today. 

Footnote x Counterpoints announces a new prize for narrative nonfiction for for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds. The Guardian reports.

NYT remembers the legacy of romance author Julie Garwood, who died last week.

New Title Best Sellers

Links for the week: NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers |NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers 

Fiction

The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand (Little Brown; LJ starred review) checks in to No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

1964: Eyes of the Storm by Paul McCartney (Liveright: Norton; LJ starred review) snaps up the No. 4 spot on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments by Hadley Vlahos, R.N. (Ballantine) arrives at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman (Penguin Pr.) eyes No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper (Random) spies No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

The Washington Post reviews To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories by Sarah Viren (Scribner): "It is in speaking the truths that are hardest to voice and to hear — like the fall of an idol, like the urge for retaliation when wronged — that we find our way out of the darkness of deceit. She may be a memoirist in style, but she remains an epistemologist at heart."

NYT reviews Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street by Jackson Lears (Farrar): "Even those unwilling to grant the presence of animal spirits in the dance hall crazes of the past or the corporate mindfulness programs of the present will be edified by this eloquent book."

NPR reviews Rich White Men: What It Takes to Uproot the Old Boys' Club and Transform America by Garrett Neiman (Legacy Lit): “Drawing from a collection of captivating anecdotes and supported by extensive data…makes a compelling argument that inequality harms us all.” NPR also pairs a review of Brandon Taylor’s The Late Americans (Riverhead) with Such Kindness by Andre Dubus III (Norton), two books which “illustrate just how hard it is to find a foothold in America.”

BookMarks shares “The 5 reviews you need to read this week.”

Briefly Noted

Clémence Michallon, The Quiet Tenant (Knopf), talks about the ethics of writing about violence with CrimeReads. 

Hayley Kiyoko discusses “dodging Drag bans and writing her first novel”, Girls Like Girls (Wednesday Books), at Vulture. 

Aisha Harris talks about her book, Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me (HarperOne), with LA Times. 

Elliot Page discusses gender dysphoria, Trans joy, and his new book, Pageboy: A Memoir (Flatiron: Macmillan), at Autostraddle. 

Fabio criticizes “soft masculinity” featured in modern romance novels and readers react. USA Today reports. 

Len Deightnon talks about outdated travel guides for NYT’s “By the Book.”

Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter (Gallery), and the Friends and Fiction community are featured in NYT’s “Inside the Best-Seller List.”

Simon & Schuster will release the first audiobook adaptation of Classic DS9 Star Trek novel, A Stitch in Time, August 1st. Andrew Robinson, who wrote the book and played Garek on the series, narrates. Gizmodo has the story.

Entertainment Weekly previews Rachel Lynn Solomon’s forthcoming novel, Business or Pleasure (Berkley), and shares an excerpt.

NYT debates and defines “The 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature.”

Tor lists “Ten Essential Short Stories by Trans Authors.”

CrimeReads has the best 5 debut novels of the month. 

Esquire shares “The 20 Best LGBTQ Books of 2023 (So Far).”

The Washington Post suggests 8 overlooked titles. 

Slate speculates why big New York publishers rejected Richard North Patterson’s new novel.

Authors On Air

Jennifer Ackerman discusses her new book, What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds (Penguin Pr.), with B&N’s Poured Over podcast. 

Keziah Weir talks about her new book,The Mythmakers (S. & S./Marysue Rucci), on The Maris Review podcast. 

Emma Törzs talks about her novel, June book club pick, Ink Blood Sister Scribe (Morrow; LJ starred review), with GMA. 

NPR’s Fresh Air remembers acclaimed editor Robert Gottlieb.

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