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Awards & News

The Kirkus Prize winners are announced, including Trust by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead) for fiction, and In Sensorium: Notes for My People by Tanaïs (Harper), for nonfiction. LitHub reports. 

The shortlist for the Waterstones Book of the Year is announced.

Elon Musk buys Twitter.  Vanity Fair weighs in on the deal, as does NPR, WSJ, and NYT. 

PRH Audio expands partnership with Peachtree Publishing. Publishers Lunch reports. 

NPR reports that Keri Blakinger’s memoir of her jail time, Corrections in Ink: A Memoir (St. Martin’s), has been banned from Florida prisons. 

Page to Screen

October 28:

All Quiet on the Western Front, based on the book by Erich Maria Remarque. Netflix. Reviews |Trailer

Wendell & Wild, based on an unpublished book by Henry Selick and Clay McLeod Chapman. Netflix. Reviews| Trailer

Stars at Noon, based on the book by Denis Johnson. A24. Reviews |Trailer

The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself, based on the book Half Bad by Sally Green. Netflix. No reviews | Trailer

November 1:

Hot Blooded: Once Upon a Time in Korea, based on the book by Kim Un-su. VOD. No reviews | Trailer

November 2:

The Wonder, based on the book by Emma Donoghue. Netflix. Reviews| Trailer

November 3:

The Suspect, based on the book by Michael Robotham. Sundance Now. Reviews| Trailer

Titans, based on associated titles. HBO Max. Reviews| Trailer

Vulture shares “60 New Page-to-Screen Adaptations to Add to Your 2022 Reading List.”

Reviews

NYT reviews The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (Norton): “Offers a very palatable combination of literary-political-ethical challenges, enjoyments and validations to its readers, including a sense of timeliness”; and Ted Kennedy: A Life by John A. Farrell (Penguin Pr.): “For the most part Ted Kennedy is a sturdy, if partisan, production. The ampleness of Farrell’s research attests to both his Ph.D. in history and his long career as a political reporter.” Plus, there are short reviews of four novellas.

The Washington Post reviews Trespasses by Louise Kennedy (Riverhead): “Kennedy has written a captivating first novel which manages to be beautiful and devastating in equal measure.”

LA Times reviews The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan (S. & S.): “For Dylan, songs aren’t just artworks to be analyzed and explicated; they’re visions that beget visions, prompts for his own madcap and macabre yarn-spinning.” The Atlantic also reviews: “It’s a work of authorship, obviously, and at the same time a critique of, and a bit of a prank on, the idea of authorship too.”

USA Today releases the best books of 2022, featuring titles that received 3.5- or 4-star reviews. Also a round-up of new rom-coms, including two Christmas romances: You’re a Mean One, Matthew Prince by Timothy Janovsky (Sourcebooks Landmark), and Once Upon a December by Amy E. Reichert (Berkley).

Book Marks shares “the Best Reviewed Books of the Month.”

Briefly Noted

Vogue explores “The Deeper Meaning Behind Prince Harry’s Memoir Title.”

Entertainment Weekly shares anecdotes from Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry (Flatiron), as Perry apologizes over Keanu Reeves remarks. 

People offers details on Sam Heughan’s memoir Waypoints: My Scottish Journey (Voracious: Hachette).

Time highlights a new biography, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown).

LA Times talks with Toni Ann Johnson about Light Skin Gone to Waste: Stories (Univ. of Georgia Pr.) and “what it was like turning her childhood into fiction.”

Ina Garten talks discusses her new book, Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook (Clarkson Potter), with USA Today.

Vulture provides “A Guide to Stephen King Audiobooks Read by Stephen King Actors.”

“A rare John Steinbeck column probes the strength of U.S. democracy.” AP reports. 

NYT recommends 15 books coming in November, and 9 new books for the week. 

USA Today suggests 10 bestselling horror books.

CrimeReads has a “hygge guide to autumn reading,” including cozy mystery recommendations. 

D.J. Waldie, Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place (Angel City Pr.: Gibbs Smith), remembers the late Mike Davis for LA Times. 

“Lucianne Goldberg, who helped expose Clinton affair, dies at 87.” NYT has more on her life.

“John Jay Osborn Jr., author of The Paper Chase, dies at 77.” NYT has an obituary. 

Authors on Air

Bono discusses his forthcoming memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story (Knopf), with NPR’s Morning Edition. Deadline reports that Bono will make his Late Show with Stephen Colbert debut on Nov. 3. 

Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs (Norton), discusses the “lack of empathetic characters in fiction” on The Maris Review podcast.

Porochista Khakpour, Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity (Vintage), talks about “the current wave of protests for women’s rights in Iran” and reads from her essay “Revolution Days” on the Fiction/Non/Fiction podast. 

Aldis Hodge will play Alex Cross in new Amazon series, based on the book series by James Patterson. Deadline reports. 

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