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Awards & Books News

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly & Zach Weinersmith (Penguin Pr.) wins the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, The Guardian reports.

The ALA announces the longlists for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. Publishers Weekly has coverage.

The shortlist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction is released, The Guardian reports.

Finalists for the Kitschies, for “the year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining fiction that contains elements of the speculative or fantastic,” are announced, Locus reports.

Page to Screen

October 25

Conclave, based on the novel by Robert Harris. Focus Features. Reviews | Trailer

Venom: The Last Dance, based on associated titles. Sony Pictures. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

Washington Post reviews The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (Avid Reader/S. & S.): “A novel about opening—the opening of a home, then a heart and then, most painfully, awareness. And it will probably open you, too: It is the only book I have read this year that has made me cry.”

LA Times reviews No One Gets To Fall Apart: A Memoir by Sarah LaBrie (Harper) and My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir by Sarah Moss (Farrar): “In two extraordinary memoirs, Sarah LaBrie and Sarah Moss chronicle the ways in which mental illness carves canyons and chasms in a life.”

NYT reviews My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir by Sarah Moss (Farrar) as well: “Moss has indeed spent much of this inventive narrative trying to think her way through her illness, tracking its origins, personal and cultural, and has taken us down many brilliant pathways.”

NYT also reviews Waiting for the Fear by Oguz Atay, tr. by Ralph Hubbell (NYRB Classics): “Neither aspiring to perfect coherence nor succumbing to the deepest darkness of incomprehensibility, Waiting for the Fear is an astonishing, deeply wry example, a collection of eight short stories by one of the most influential and inventive Turkish writers of the 20th century”; and Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East by Robert Fisk (Fourth Estate): “My sense is that Fisk fell in love with his own legend. He felt he had a higher mission than reporting facts: He was waging a war of his own against the colonial arrogance of the West.”

LitHub has “5 Book Reviews You Need To Read This Week.”

Briefly Noted

Electric Lit interviews Danzy Senna, author of Colored Television (Riverhead).

Washington Post talks to pseudonymous thriller writer Frieda McFadden, author of The Boyfriend (Poisoned Pen).

NYT discusses the collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, which will send one of Limón’s poems into space.

Novelist Lissa Evans shares “The Books of My Life” with The Guardian.

NY Mag introduces “Book Gossip,” a monthly literary newsletter.

NYT has “7 New Books We Recommend This Week.”

LitHub recommends “the 10 Best Books on Guns in America” and “10 Books on Maritime Disasters and Ecological Collapse.”

CrimeReads selects the best psychological thrillers of October 2024 and “Six Chilly And Then There Were None–Inspired Thrillers Perfect for Winter.”

Chilean novelist Antonio Skármeta has died at age 83; NYT has an obituary.

Movie producer Lynda Obst, author of Sleepless in Hollywood: Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business, has died at age 74; NYT has an obituary.

Authors on Air

PBS News Hour speaks with Michael Tackett, author of The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America and Lost His Party (S. & S.).

Fox News interviews Scott Huver, author of Beverly Hills Noir: Crime, Sin & Scandal in 90210 (Post Hill).

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