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Awards & Book News

The shortlist is announced for the EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) Literature Prize for European literary fiction translated to English; The Bookseller has coverage.

After an Alabama board voted to defund the Fairhope Public Library over teen books, Read Freely Alabama raised over $40,000 to keep the library open, Washington Post reports.

French Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal has been sentenced to prison in Algeria, allegedly for criticizing the country, The Guardian reports.

Page to Screen

March 28

The Friend, based on the novel by Sigrid Nunez. Bleecker Street. Reviews | Trailer

The Life List, based on the novel by Lori Nelson Spielman. Netflix. Reviews | Trailer

The Penguin Lessons, based on the memoir The Penguin Lessons: What I Learned from a Remarkable Bird by Tom Michell. Lionsgate. Reviews | Trailer

A Working Man, based on the novel Levon’s Trade by Chuck Dixie. Amazon MGM. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

Washington Post reviews Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan Morrison (Random; LJ starred review): “For a book with this much access, [Lorne] is far from a hagiography. Morrison, an editor at the New Yorker and one of the original editors at Spy magazine in the 1980s, tells a story that arcs over 50 years of American pop culture and New York City high life”; and When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines by Graydon Carter with James Fox (Penguin Pr.): “And then there’s the relief Carter provides in not making us face the current oligarchs. The only Zuck in the book is Mort Zuckerman, and the only Musk is Muskoka, a place in Ontario.”

NYT reviews “thrilling, lush new historical fiction”: Fagin the Thief by Allison Epstein (Doubleday), The Delicate Beast by Roger Celestin (Bellevue Literary), A Fool’s Kabbalah by Steve Stern (Melville House), and Moral Treatment by Stephanie Carpenter (Central Michigan Univ.).

LA Times reviews Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus by Elaine Pagels (Doubleday): “Some of the passages in this illuminating and essential work are tough going. Pagels is conversant with every version of the gospels—even the most obscure—and wades through them with forensic thoroughness. Like a detective, she’s always on the lookout for contradictory gospels about Jesus’ origin story. But it’s worthwhile hanging in: As the chapters unfold, the plot thickens.”

Briefly Noted

Salman Rushdie will publish a new collection of stories; The Eleventh Hour is due out from Random House on Nov. 4, 2025, The Guardian reports. Publishers Weekly also has coverage.

Bestselling YA author Ayana Gray’s first adult novel, I, Medusa, will be published by Random House on Nov. 18; People has the news.

Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson’s next work will be a historical novel; The Wayfinder is due out from Farrar on Oct. 14, 2025, People reports.

DJ and music producer Mark Ronson is writing a memoir; Night People: How To Be a DJ in ’90s New York City will be published by Grand Central on Sept. 23, People reports.

Cynthia Ozick, author of In a Yellow Wood (Everyman’s Library), shares “The Books of My Life” with The Guardian.

LA Times interviews casting director Tess Sanchez, author of We’ve Decided To Go in a Different Direction: Essays (Gallery).

CrimeReads talks to Saratoga Schaefer, author of Serial Killer Support Group (Crooked Lane), and Ashley Winstead, author of This Book Will Bury Me (Sourcebooks Landmark; LJ starred review).

NYT shares “8 New Books We Recommend This Week.”

Shannon Chakraborty, author of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Harper Voyager), recommends her favorite historical fantasy novels.

LitHub has AudioFile’s most anticipated audiobooks of April and the 13 best book covers of March.

University of Georgia Press announces a new series, “African Language Literatures in Translation,” which will publish English translations of classic and contemporary literature originally written in various African languages.

NYT examines the cultural impact of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in time for the 100th anniversary of its publication. NYT also looks at newly discovered documents that tell a different story of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s drunken brawl in Rome than the one in his book Tender Is the Night.

Washington Post looks at Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne’s papers, which are now housed at NYPL.

Authors on Air

Alex Higley, author of True Failure (Coffee House), talks to LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast.

NPR’s Wild Card interviews John Green, author of Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Crash Course).

A new episode of Behind the Mic podcast discusses the Earphones Awards.

There’s a new episode of The LitHub Podcast, featuring the Windham-Campbell Prizes and a new literary tabloid.

NPR’s Fresh Air re-airs a 2019 interview with Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend, whose film adaptation comes out today.

Today, Good Morning America will host Tamsen Fadal, author of How To Menopause: Take Charge of Your Health, Reclaim Your Life, and Feel Even Better Than Before (Balance).

The Jennifer Hudson Show will interview Chelsea Handler, author of I’ll Have What She's Having (Dial; LJ starred review).

Shelf Awareness rounds up the schedule for this weekend’s Book TV on C-SPAN 2 at the Savannah Book Festival.

LitHub recommends literary film and TV to stream in April.

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