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Awards & News

The Booker Prize shortlist is announced. The Guardian has coverage, as do NYT, Washington Post and CBC.

The BBC Young Writers’ Award Shortlist is announced. Locus has details.

AP shares a new report that students are reading fewer books in English class.

The University of Washington has dismissed an academic plagiarism complaint against White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo, NYT reports.

Reviews

NYT reviews Entitlement by Rumaan Alam (Riverhead; LJ starred review): “Entitlement—a psychological thriller that subtly turns into a vicious exposé of affluent liberalism—also sneaks up on you, and wins you over.” Washington Post also reviews: “A similar sense of dread infuses Entitlement, with its steady poisonous drip of racism, generational wealth, classism and real estate envy.” The Atlantic also weighs in. 

NYT also reviews One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Mother’s Story by Abi Maxwell (Knopf): “Abi Maxwell’s One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman is a cluster bomb of a memoir lobbed from the front lines of the transgender rights movement right into the heart of the contemporary culture wars”; Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin (Farrar): “The novel can feel like one long, Socratic dialogue between Anna and Clémentine, debating the value of such work, the ethics of sex and fidelity and childbearing and feminism”; and Connie: A Memoir by Connie Chung (Grand Central): “Chung’s heartbreaking career was also groundbreaking — not only in the moment and on the air, but in the ‘sisterhood of Connies’ who form a living legacy.”

Washington Post also reviews Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers by Ian O’Connor (Mariner): “There’s a lot to root for in the Aaron Rodgers story, because nothing came easy. O’Connor delivers a clear sense of his evolution as a person as well as a passer”; She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street by Paulina Bren (Norton): “Ultimately, She-Wolves is not just a story of how women got into finance, but also of how they got out”; and A Second Chance: A Federal Judge Decides Who Deserves It by Judge Frederic Block (New Pr.): “Aside from the occasional lapse into legal jargon or cliché, A Second Chance is a clear and compassionate argument for just that kind of mercy.”

LA Times reviews Runaway Train: or, The Story of My Life So Far by Eric Roberts, written with Sam Kashner (St. Martin’s): “Runaway Train the book is not some weepy expiation for past sins, a Hollywood reclamation job designed to kick-start a once-buzzy career.”

Briefly Noted

LitHub highlights 26 new books for the week. 

NYT previews 11 fashion books for fall.

Datebook suggests 6 books for National Hispanic Heritage Month.

Parade has “The 28 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2024…So Far.”

ElectricLit shares “7 Coming-Of-Age Poetry Collections That Use Form in an Innovative Way.”

BookRiot recommends 10 romantasy books.

Elle talks with Coco Mellors about her novel, Blue Sisters (Ballantine). Mellors also chats with Bustle. 

Blink-182 bassist, songwriter and vocalist Mark Hoppus announced a forthcoming memoir, Fahrenheit-182 written with Dan Ozzi (Dey Street), due out in April. People has the story.

Salon has an interview with Mirya R. Holman about her new book, The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States co-written with Emily M. Farris, (Univ. of Chicago Pr.), and why the sheriff’s office is due for reform.

Gillian Anderson discusses her new book, Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous (Abrams), with Esquire. Slate also has an interview with Anderson. People shares an excerpt.

People talks with James Middleton about his forthcoming memoir, Meet Ella: The Dog Who Saved My Life (Pegasus). 

Slate reexamines Robert A. Caro’s Pulitzer prize winning book, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Knopf), as it turns 50.

Vogue highlights Derek Jeter’s forthcoming book The Player’s Tribune: I’ve Got a Story To Tell (Assouline), due out in October. 

People offers an exclusive excerpt from Ina Garten’s forthcoming memoir, Be Ready When the Luck Happens (Crown), due out October 1. 

People shares details from actor Eric Roberts’s memoir, Runaway Train: or, The Story of My Life So Far written with Sam Kashner (St. Martin’s).

Authors On Air

NPR’s Bullseye with Jessie Thorn discusses Eve’s new memoir, Who’s That Girl? (Hanover Square). 

Emmy-winning Shōgun, based on the novel by James Clavell, will return for a second season, T&C reports.

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