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Awards & News

The 2024 Colorado Book Award winners are announced.

The 2024 RSL Christopher Bland Prize shortlist is announced.

Lambda Literary announces new fellows for the 2024 Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. 

In a deal with Marvel, Dark Horse Comics will publish new art books, “including a new imprint for the works of legendary Marvel Comics characters and creators.” iCv2 has details.

Lindsay Sagnette has been appointed editor-in-chief of Putnam, Publishers Weekly reports.

The 2024 ALA Annual Conference kicks off tomorrow in San Diego. Trevor Noah will headline the general opening session on Friday.

Reviews

NYT reviews Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum (Random; LJ starred review): “With muscular prose and an exacting eye for detail, Nussbaum, a staff writer for The New Yorker, outlines how such shows united high and low art into a potent concoction, ranging from ‘celebreality’ soap opera to grand social experiments that explore romance, competition and ethics” ; So What: Poems by Frederick Seidel (Farrar): “Much of So What is as vigorous, insightful, moving and disturbing as his work has ever been: lots of politics, noise, luxury, literature, disease, war and strife” ; and The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil (Viking): “Kurzweil’s predictions may be of use to investors and science fiction novelists (at least until they are replaced by A.I. in five years), but the greatest value of The Singularity Is Nearer is to articulate, with bracing candor, the technocrat’s view of humanity.”

Washington Post reviews The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing (Norton): “Any of the stories in The Garden Against Time could inspire a full-length book, but it’s one of Laing’s talents to corral them in one place without alienating the reader.”

NPR’s Fresh Air reviews four crime and suspense novels: The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead; LJ starred review), The Expat by Hansen Shi (Pegasus), Blessed Water by Margot Douaihy (Gillian Flynn Bks.), and Ash Dark as Night by Gary Phillips (Soho Crime). 

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (Crown), the top holds title of the week. 

LJ has new prepub alerts. 

Investor Ray Dalio adapts from his 2021 book Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail (Avid Reader/S. & S.) in a new essay for Time.

FoxNews profiles Fredrik Backman, author of The Winners (Atria; LJ starred review). 

Editors of The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films (Skyhorse) share how readers “can celebrate women in horror all year round,” at CrimeReads.

SpringHill will publish a new coffee table book inspired by the Emmy-winning series The Shop in September, featuring a foreword by Lebron James. People has the story. 

ElectricLit has “7 Books that Unpack a Complicated Family Inheritance.”

People shares an excerpt from Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan (Little, Brown), due out next week.

Tara M. Stringfellow, Magic Enuff: Poems (Dial), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers.

Authors on Air

Jennifer Lopez’s production company will adapt Emily Henry’s novel Happy Place (Berkley; LJ starred review) as a TV series. People has the story. 

Lindy Ryan’s Bless Your Heart (Minotaur: St. Martin’s) will be adapted for TV, Deadline reports. 

Director Nick Cassavetes and author Nicholas Sparks talk about The Notebook’s legacy as the film adaptation turns 20, at Entertainment Weekly. 

HBO greenlights Lantern, a forthcoming series based on the DC comics, with assoc. titles. Hollywood Reporter has details.

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