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Awards & News

Jo Callaghan wins the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year for her novel In the Blink of an Eye (Random).

Kamala Harris’s book The Truths We Hold (Penguin Pr.) gets a significant sales bump at Amazon. Rolling Stone has coverage, while BookRiot shares a booklist by and about Vice President Kamala Harris.

GOP vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Harper) is currently Amazon’s #1 bestselling book.

The Imadjinn Award winners are announced. Locus has details. 

Sabrina Fielding wins the inaugural Montreal Fiction Prize. CBC has details. 

The Glasgow Hugo Administration released a statement yesterday regarding the disqualification of fraudulent votes cast in the final ballot.

Orbit launches a new horror imprint, Run for It. 

Reviews

NYT reviews Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (One World): “Cornejo Villavicencio revisits themes she covered in her nonfiction work, the National Book Award finalist The Undocumented Americans, but here, in Catalina, she enlarges her canvas, luxuriating in the freedom found in fiction.” Washington Post also reviews: “Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s debut novel requires no comparative exhortation. It is a singular, owned, undaunted achievement.”

NYT also reviews Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman (Atria: One Signal): “The cauldron of fornication, fundamentalism and Florida Man high jinks is a steamy promise; ultimately ‘the alligators made a great punchline’”; Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls by Susan Seidelman (St. Martin’s; LJ starred review): “For the most part, her book skips over anything painful, preferring to focus on the magical side of a life in films. For a director who’s never been afraid of a Hollywood ending, this feels like truth”; and The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook (Crown): “Where the book shines is in creating empathy for a group of people frequently dismissed or misunderstood, and for their grieving and divided families.”

Washington Post reviews The Material by Camille Bordas (Random): “The Material could best be described as comedic in the Dantesque sense. Characters become emblems of their own tragic flaws while chasing the carrot of success, which may turn out to be plastic.” Plus, there are short reviews of three new thrillers. 

NPR reviews Liars by Sarah Manguso (Hogarth): “Bitterness is never attractive. But good writing is. Liars makes an old story fresh.”

The Guardian reviews The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves & China Miéville (Del Rey): “Miéville’s supple, inventive imagination gets stretched thin on the rack of Reeves’s original idea. Enter the Miétrix, but be prepared to be underwhelmed.”

Autostraddle reviews The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing (Norton): “Like so many of us, Laing dreams of a world where people are not only free to garden—or create art or read books or do nothing—without the anxiety of finding a way to survive but one where we’ve completely restructured it to make sure we can all share equally in the gifts our world provides us.”

Briefly Noted

LitHub highlights 19 new books for the week. 

Parade shares the “60+ Best Summer Beach Reads of 2024.”

BookRiot shares 10 summer ghost stories. 

ElectricLit has “8 Novels About the Dangerous Pursuit of Youth and Beauty.”

People shares an exclusive audio clip of Joe Morton’s narration of T.J. Newman’s forthcoming novel Worst Case Scenario (Hachette Audio), due out in August.

People shares details from film director Jon M. Chu’s new book, Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen (Random).

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio talks with HipLatina about her new novel, Catalina (One World), and the undocumented college experience. 

Keanu Reeves discusses his first novel, The Book of Elsewhere, written with China Miéville (Del Rey), with BBC News.

The Rumpus has an interview with Lyn Patterson, The Postcards I Never Sent (Black Lawrence), about the “complexities of Black poetics.”

Author N.K. Jemison argues why “We Need Speculative Fiction Now More Than Ever” in an essay for Esquire.

Authors on Air

Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient Civilization by Liel Leibovitz & Matthew Miller (Norton) will be adapted for film. Deadline reports. 

Colson Whitehead reflects on his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Underground Railroad (Knopf; LJ starred review) for NYT Book Review podcast. 

Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark (Crown), visits Today.

Keanu Reeves & China Miéville, The Book of Elsewhere (Del Rey), will stop by GMA today.

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