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Awards & Book News

Homer Aridjis’s Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence (New Directions), tr. by George McWhirter, wins the Griffin Poetry Prize, CBC reports.

Kevin Sinfield wins the top Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Award for The Extra Mile (Century). See all the winners here.

Alicia Elliott wins the Amazon Canada First Novel Award for And Then She Fell (Dutton).

Louise Penny wins the International Thriller Writers’ Silver Bullet Award for public service.

A new “Hunger Games” book and movie are announced, Washington Post reports. Scholastic will publish Sunrise on the Reaping in March 2025; the movie will be released in 2026.

Cengage, Elsevier, Macmillan Learning, and McGraw Hill have sued Google for allowing ads to run on sites that pirate textbooks, Publishers Weekly reports.

Page to Screen

June 7

Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, based on Kaiser Karl: The Life of Karl Lagerfeld by Raphaëlle Bacqué. Disney+. Reviews | Trailer

Handling the Undead, based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist. Neon. Reviews | Trailer

Queenie, based on the novel by Candice Carty-Williams. Hulu. Reviews | Trailer

Robot Dreams, based on the comic by Sara Varon. Neon. Reviews | Trailer

Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything, based on the novel by Daniela Krien. Strand Releasing. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

Washington Post reviews The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma (Hogarth): “His books…charge headfirst into the thorniest areas of human existence. His exhilarated readers carry the cuts and scratches”; a 50th-anniversary edition of the 1974 book The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy Gallwey (Random): “The message of The Inner Game gave me faith. It convinced me that I only needed to get out of my own way and allow my autodidactic game free rein”; Swift River by Essie Chambers (S. & S.): “This merging of sitcoms, sadness and generational trauma is emblematic of how Chambers weaves irony and gut-punch emotion throughout this gorgeous debut”; and books that pay tribute to Kafka.

NPR reviews Fire Exit by Morgan Talty (Tin House): “This is a story about very complicated things that is very easy to read. That beautiful simplicity is no easy task.”

LitHub gathers the best-reviewed books of the week.

Briefly Noted

NYT gathers “7 New Books We Recommend This Week” and six new paperbacks to read this week.

LA Times talks to Griffin Dunne about his book The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir (Penguin Pr.); LitHub also talks to Dunne.

LitHub has a Q&A with John Kaag, author of American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation (Farrar).

CBC recommends “30 must-read books to learn about the Indigenous experience in North America.”

LitHub asks 10 debut LGBTQ+ authors about the books that shaped them as writers.

Emma Donoghue, author of Learned by Heart (Back Bay), answers The Guardian’s “The Books of My Life” questionnaire.

In Europe, young people are choosing to read in English “even if it is not their first language because they want the covers, and the titles, to match what they see on TikTok and other social media,” NYT reports.

Authors on Air

NPR’s Short Wave talks to Kyne Santos, author of Math in Drag (Johns Hopkins Univ.).

NPR interviews Sam Forster, author of Seven Shoulders: Taxonomizing Racism in Modern America.

Audiobook narrator Dominic Hoffman, a 2024 Golden Voice winner, speaks to AudioFile’s Behind the Mic podcast.

Gillian McAllister’s Just Another Missing Person has been acquired for adaptation to a TV series, Deadline reports.

A Sigma Force TV series, based on the books by James Rollins, is in the works at Amazon, Deadline reports.

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