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Awards & News

Former collection development librarian Terah Shelton Harris, author of Long After We Are Gone (Sourcebooks Landmark), has been named Target’s author of the year. Rolling Stone has the story. The Women by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s) is named book of the year.

The Elgin Awards winners are announced. Locus has details. 

The Guardian touts Chinese author Can Xue as a favorite to win the Nobel prize in literature. Watch the announcement live on Thursday.

NYT takes a look recent lawsuits involving the weeding process in an article and video, "How Book Bans Happen Under the Radar."

Reviews

NYT reviews From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir by Lisa Marie Presley with Riley Keough (Random): “Is this a book for addicts? Their families? Elvis fans? Hard to say.” Washington Post also reviews: “The book is of two minds: It’s an unadorned, conversational memoir that’s more matter of fact than gossipy, little interested in preserving what her father’s biographer Peter Guralnick once called ‘the dreary bondage of myth.’ And it’s a frank, almost unbearably heavy meditation on grief.”

NYT also reviews Comrade Papa by Gauz’, tr. by Frank Wynne (Biblioasis): “Comrade Papa incorporates many small shards of history and storytelling—some flat and dull, others dazzling—into an overall gleaming mosaic”; Salvage: Readings from the Wreck by Dionne Brand (Farrar): “In short, Brand shows that learning to read English literature involved learning not to notice who, or what, was missing.”

Washington Post reviews Best Possible Place, Worst Possible Time: True Stories from a Career in Hollywood by Barry Sonnenfeld (Hachette): “In that sense, Best Possible Place, Worst Possible Time may be the truest Hollywood memoir of all: Garrulous, funny, smart—and also light, superficial, inconsequential. An easy, breezy lunch date at the Polo Lounge. I’ll have what he’s having.”

LA Times reviews The Plot Against Native America: The Fateful Story of Native American Boarding Schools and the Theft of Tribal Lands by Bill Vaughn (Pegasus): “Given Vaughn’s personal connection to the boarding school story, one can interpret The Plot Against Native America as his modest attempt at reparations. But like so many other such efforts, it falls dramatically short.”

Briefly Noted

LitHub highlights 25 new books for the week. 

The Millions revisits Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf), 10 years after its publication. 

CrimeReads shares the best medieval crime novels. 

Reactor highlights “5 Underrated Books Set During WWII.”

BookRiot shares 8 under the radar picks from last year.

Essence rounds up new lifestyle and wellness books for the month.

Publishing Perspectives writes on “The Fast, Exuberant Rise of Comics in Italy.”

The New York Times Magazine has a feature profile on French author Michel Houellebecq.

USA Today reveals details from Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir with Riley Keough (Random). 

Authors Charles Bock, Kay Chronister, Mike Fu, Kate Greathead, and Sarah LaBrie take LitHub’s monthly author questionnaire.

Christopher Steele discusses his new book, Unredacted: Russia, Trump, and the Fight for Democracy (Mariner), with Washington Post. 

Authors On Air

Barry Sonnenfeld talks with NPR’s Bullseyewith Jesse Thorn podcast about his new book, Best Possible Place, Worst Possible Time: True Stories from a Career in Hollywood (Hachette).

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty (Crown) will get a new series adaptation, Deadline reports.

Colleen Hoover’s Reminders of Him (Montlake) will be adapted for film, GMA reports. Deadline rounds up all the latest on Hoover’s book to screen adaptations. 

Library Journal has announced a new partnership with the Libraries Lead podcast.

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