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Awards & Book News

Hisham Matar’s My Friends (Random) and Matthew Longo’s The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain (Norton) win Orwell Prizes, The Guardian reports.

Poets & Writers publishes its 24th annual roundup of the summer’s best debut fiction.

South Carolina censorship law goes into effect, Kirkus reports.

OverDrive launches its “Check Out Your Library” initiative, which aims to reacquaint Americans with the resources and stories housed within their public libraries.

Page to Screen

June 28

Mother, Couch, based on the Swedish novel Mamma i soffa by Jerker Virdborg. Film Movement. Reviews | Trailer

A Sacrifice, based on the novel Tokyo by Nicholas Hogg. Vertical. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

NPR reviews The Liquid Eye of a Moon by Uchenna Awoke (Catapult): “Awoke presumes the reader’s knowledge of this complex background. He declines to translate Igbo terms, sharpening his message that Igbo cultural and political history form the novel’s warp and weft.”

NYT reviews four new horror novels: Middle of the Night by Riley Sager (Dutton), The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim (Erewhon; LJ starred review), youthjuice by E.K. Sathue (Soho), and Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima (Tor; LJ starred review).

Washington Post reviews The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead; LJ starred review): “For those susceptible to its pull, The God of the Woods, like The Secret History, transports readers so deeply into its richly peopled, ominous world that, for hours, everything else falls away.”

Briefly Noted

Uzo Aduba will publish a memoir this fall, The Road Is Good: How a Mother’s Strength Became a Daughter’s Purpose (Viking), People reports.

Daniel Handler, author of And Then? And Then? What Else? (Liveright: Norton), answers The Guardian’s “The Books of My Life” questionnaire.

NYT gathers “6 New Books We Recommend This Week” and 16 new books coming in July.

LitHub rounds up June’s best-reviewed fiction and nonfiction and AudioFile’s best audiobooks of June.

Time recommends “the 12 New Books You Should Read in July.”

CrimeReads shares “great novels of subtle espionage” and “the dark appeal of the assassin genre.”

Authors on Air

Netflix is developing Tillie Cole’s bestselling A Thousand Boy Kisses for film, Deadline reports.

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