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Awards, News & New Books

The German Book Prize longlist is announced.

Parade highlights new releases for the week. 

Star Tribune suggests five new books for September.

NYT explores “How the Push to Diversify Publishing Fell Short.” 

New College of Florida’s library dean has been placed on leave after disposing library books sparked controversy, USA Today reports.

Reviews

Washington Post reviews Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Scribner): “Bore through this noir posing and wry satire of radical politics, and you feel something vital and profound prowling around in the darkness beneath”; Displaced: Civilians in the Russia-Ukraine War by Valery Panyushkin, tr. by Brian James Baer & Ellen Vayner (Europa): “But as valuable as his perspective is, and as moving and illuminating as the stories he tells are, he doesn’t seem particularly optimistic that the divide between the people of his country and the one it invaded can be bridged, even long after this war ends”; and The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play by Frank Andre Guridy (Basic Books): “Turning to policy recommendations in his conclusion, he strives to ensure that the civic mission of the stadium lives on. But the whole of his book also makes a strong historical argument that it should.” LA Times also reviews: “At its heart, The Stadium is a story of access and representation in the most public and crowded of places, where rituals of community and, often, patriotism are played out for all to see.”

NYT reviews A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson by Camille Peri (Viking): “Peri’s narrative offers a balanced appreciation of her role in the partnership, so that we understand the gifts she provided to her husband: in his words, ‘honor, anger, valor, fire.’” Plus, there are short reviews of new speculative fiction about universities.

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Spirit Crossing by William Kent Krueger (Atria), the top holds title of the week.

LJ has new prepub alerts.

torrin a. greathouse, DEED (Wesleyan Univ.), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers. 

People previews two forthcoming “For Dummies” books about the MCU: Marvel Comics For Dummies and Captain America For Dummies. Both will publish in February.

Slate takes a walk with author Ian Frazier whose new book, Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough (Farrar), is out this week.

In People, Today Show host Sheinelle Jones previews her forthcoming book, Through Mom’s Eyes: Simple Wisdom From Mothers Who Raised Extraordinary Humans (Putnam), due out in April.

Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals (St. Martin’s; LJ starred review), suggests East Asian authored books featuring “women characters who transgress against societal norms,” at CrimeReads.

Charles R. Cross, biographer of Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix, has died at the age of 67. NYT has an obituary.

Authors on Air

Frank Andre Guridy discusses his new book, The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play (Basic), with NPR’s Fresh Air.

Jodi Picoult talks about her new book, By Any Other Name (Ballantine), on the First Draft podcast.

Agents and producers debate book adaptations at the Edinburgh TV Festival. Deadline has the panel recap. 

Anya Taylor-Joy will star in a Netflix series adaptation of Bella Mackie’s How To Kill Your Family (Abrams), Variety reports.

Vanity Fair gives an inside look at the new adaptation of Stephen King’s Salems Lot.

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