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Awards & Book News

The shortlists for the British Fantasy Awards are announced.

Poets & Writers publishes its annual selection of the best memoirs and essay collections of the year.

The National Book Foundation issues $350,000 in new grants; Publishing Perspectives has the news.

Betty A. Prashker, a top editor at Doubleday and Crown and an advocate for women in publishing, has died at age 99; NYT has an obituary.

Page to Screen

August 16

Rob Peace, based on The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs. Republic Pictures. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

Washington Post reviews There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven: Stories by Ruben Reyes Jr. (Mariner): “Even if some of the stories fall short of the grand ambitions Reyes brings to his delicious, implausible conceits, that he swings so hard for the farthest fences is no small feat. And when he manages a true and thrilling and heart-wrenching home run, you find yourself in the hands of a terrifically talented storyteller”; Peggy by Rebecca Godfrey (Random): “As a novel, Peggy invites the reader to glimpse things partly visible, almost but not entirely obscured by layers of interpretation and implication. It is beautifully written, boldly imagined and full of holes”;

NPR reviews Another Day: Sabbath Poems, 2013–2023 by Wendell Berry (Counterpoint): “Like Berry’s fierce essays and luminous novels, these poems offer gifts of vision, of knowing that there is another way to live now on this Earth: a way that honors love, the land, and all beings.”

LA Times reviews Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home by Chris La Tray (Milkweed): “In reckoning with his and his tribe’s history of repeated trauma, La Tray finds new beauty, like the green shoots and wildflowers that grow in the wake of a forest inferno.”

Briefly Noted

Kirkus speaks with Louise Erdrich, author of The Mighty Red (Harper).

People talks to Jodi Picoult about her new novel, By Any Other Name, due out from Ballantine on August 20.

CrimeReads interviews Stella Sands, author of Wordhunter (Harper Paperbacks).

NYT has “6 New Books We Recommend This Week,” “6 New Paperbacks To Read This Week,” and “4 Long Books To Sink Your Teeth Into.”

The Guardian selects five of the best books about Indian politics.

Entertainment Weekly recommends their seven favorite romance novels of the summer that “shine a light on oft-ignored characters.”

Reactor rounds up “Six Enchanting Retellings of ‘Beauty and the Beast.’”

CrimeReads has a taxonomy of Vermont noir and crime fiction about food and wine.

Vulture publishes part one of its book club conversation about Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Long Island Compromise (Random; LJ starred review).

Kristen Arnett’s new novel, Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One, is due out from Riverhead in March 2025, People reports.

Authors on Air

Today, NPR's Science Friday will interview Anthony Fauci, author of On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service (Viking).

PBS News Hour has “a look at James Baldwin’s enduring influence on art and activism.”

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