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Awards, News & Oprah’s Book Club

Oprah selects The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin (S. & S.) for her book club.

Debra Magpie Earling wins the Montana Book Award for The Lost Journals of Sacajewea (Milkweed Editions). 

CBC previews this year’s Canada Reads, which kicks off March 4. 

Small Press Distribution expands services with SPD Next program. Publishers Weekly has details. 

Reviews

NYT reviews Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange (Knopf): “Orange’s ability to highlight the contradictory forces that coexist within friendships, familial relationships and the characters themselves, who contend with holding private and public identities, makes Wandering Stars a towering achievement.” NPR also says: “Wandering Stars more than fulfills the promise of There There.”

NYT reviews King Nyx by Kirsten Bakis (Liveright): “The intriguing setup is buried under this avalanche of unfortunate events. Bakis summons her gift for atmospheric prose in a few memorable scenes, but otherwise King Nyx feels flat. Even Charles Fort might be challenged to rationalize its climax”; and Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff (Knopf): “Targoff’s intent is to scrape away the layer of literary obscurity from Shakespeare’s sisters and present the pentimento as transcendent survivors. Their work indeed lives on. And yet, I was left with the crushing sensation of women who tried to flee but were buried alive.” There is also a paired review of Green Dot by Madeleine Gray (Holt) and Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman (Norton), two books which “skewer the modern workplace.”

Washington Post reviews Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher (S. & S.): “In all, it’s a lively read from a sui generis figure, provided you don’t mind rolling your eyes now and then at how often the moral of a given encounter turns out to be that Swisher was right all along. To her credit, she’s self-aware and often funny about it.”

NPR reviews Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Philip Gefter (Bloomsbury; LJ starred review): “Liz and Dick were the prototypes of the parade of celebrity couples who now dominate public consciousness. Their stardom heightens the movie’s profile the way Princess Di and Charles elevated the dreary British monarchy.”

Briefly Noted

Seattle Times has a feature on Kara Swisher’s new book, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story (S. & S.). The Atlantic also examines Swisher’s book. 

Salon has an interview with journalist Hala Gorani about her new book, But You Don’t Look Arab: And Other Tales of Unbelonging (Hachette), and “the toll of covering the Gaza war.” 

LitHub highlights 24 new books for the week. 

Eater has the best food books for spring. 

ElectricLit shares “7 Books About the Stigma of Menstruation.”

Reactor suggests “5 Underrated Romantasy Books.”

BookRiot explains horrormance.

Vox explores “How Sarah J. Maas became romantasy’s reigning queen.”

Aaron Lansky retires from the Yiddish Book Center, NYT reports. 

An uncorrected proof copy of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone sells for £11,000 at auction, BBC reports. 

Authors on Air

Education activist Pashtana Durrani talks with PBS NewsHour about her book, Last To Eat, Last To Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women, written with Tamara Bralo (Citadel). 

Charan Ranganath talks with NPR’s Fresh Air about his new book, Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power To Hold on to What Matters (Doubleday).

Maurice Carlos Ruffin discusses his new book, The American Daughters (One World), on B&N’s Poured Over podcast. 

People rounds up this spring’s Broadway musicals based on books.

Tiffy Chen, Tiffy Cooks: 88 Easy Asian Recipes from My Family to Yours (Ten Speed), will visit GMA. 

Radhi Devlukia-Shetty, JoyFull: Cook Effortlessly, Eat Freely, Live Radiantly (S. & S./Simon Element), visits Today.

Poet Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry: Poems (Viking), and cellist Jan Vogler will visit The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. 

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