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Awards & News

The Indiana Author Awards shortlist is announced.

The Ned Kelly Awards shortlist is announced.

The shortlist for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize is announced, The Bookseller reports.

Penguin Random House is accepting applications for its Audio Narrator Mentorship program, Publishing Perspectives reports.

Reviews

NYT reviews Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans by Bill Schutt (Algonquin): “Schutt, the author of both fiction and nonfiction titles and a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History, aims to trace not just the history of individual creatures, but of all animal life on Earth, based entirely on teeth”; and four graphic novels out in August: Mothballs by Sole Otero, tr. by Andrea Rosenberg (Fantagraphics), Boy Island by Leo Fox (Silver Sprocket), Houses of the Unholy by Ed Brubaker, illus. by Sean Phillips (Image Comics; LJ starred review), and Blurry by Dash Shaw (New York Review Comics; LJ starred review). 

Washington Post reviews The Rich People Have Gone Away by Regina Porter (Hogarth): “This is the covid novel you didn’t know you wanted to catch”; and Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World by Anupreeta Das (Avid Reader/S. & S.): “Reporters are urged to show rather than tell, but in this case the reader is left craving an unambiguous polemic—something to agree or disagree with—rather than this slightly flabby mixture of reported events and other people’s opinions.” The Guardian also reviews: “Das has found no new smoking gun, and her summation of him, as a man who switches between ‘entitled hero’ and ‘hubristic villain’, but is at heart ‘a protean creature, a Zelig who…has leveraged his money and his fame to go from one guise to the next’, is overblown.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Angel of Vengeance by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (Grand Central), the top holds title of the week. 

LJ has new prepub alerts. 

Parade shares new releases for the week.

BookRiot highlights notable new books for the week. 

AARP recommends “8 Short Novels Your Book Club Will Actually Read.”

NYT suggests six political audiobooks that provide context for the Democratic National Convention.

People has a preview and cover reveal for Torrey Peters’s forthcoming Stag Dance (Random), due out in March 2025. 

Author Joy Williams talks with Esquire about her time spent as a contributor to the magazine. Williams’s new book, Concerning the Future of Souls (Tin House), was published July 2.

NYT has an interview with environmentalist Ailton Krenak about his new book, Ancestral Future, tr. by Alex Brostoff & Jamille Pinheiro Dias (Polity).

Paolo Bacigalupi discusses his new book, Navola (Knopf), with Reactor. 

Navid Sinaki, Medusa of the Roses (Grove), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers. 

LitHub recommends “what to read next based on your favorite movie of the year (so far).”

T&C shares 20 of the best best memoirs by Olympians.

Authors on Air

NPR’s Fresh Air reairs an interview with Safiya Sinclair, whose memoir How To Say Babylon (S. & S.) published in paperback in July. 

Deadline previews the release schedule for Apple TV+’s Bad Monkey series, based on the book by Carl Hiassen. 

Christy Hall, who produced and adapted It Ends with Us from Colleen Hoover’s novel, talks with Salon about “aging up the characters and gaslighting the audience on purpose.”

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