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Awards & News

Former President Barack Obama shares his ever-popular summer reading list. This year’s list includes Percival Everett’s James (Doubleday; LJ starred review), Lisa Ko’s Memory Piece (Riverhead), and Liz Moore’s The God of the Woods (Riverhead; LJ starred review).

Tommy Orange is picked as the 11th writer to contribute to the Future Library project, which invites an author each year to produce a manuscript to be stored under lock and key until 2114. The Guardian has the story. 

The Aurora Awards winners are announced. CBC has coverage. 

The Analog AnLab and Asimov’s Readers’ Awards winners are announced. Locus has details. 

The Sidewise Award winners are announced. 

DarkLit Press appears to shutter under controversial circumstances, Publishers Weekly reports.

Baker & Taylor Publisher Services will sell and distribute three publishers including Amber Books,Waxwing Books, and Terminus Media, Shelf Awareness reports. 

Librarian Mychal Threets will be featured on a new limited-edition library card at the Berkeley Public Library. Datebook has the story. 

Reviews

NYT reviews The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya (Pantheon): “As in her 2021 debut novel, Three Rooms, Hamya is attuned to the precarity that young women inherit, the realization that no amount of privilege, education or artistic chops could confer the freedom or power they desire”; How To Leave the House by Nathan Newman (Viking): “I lost count of the number of times Natwest, the protagonist of Nathan Newman’s deft and uproarious debut novel, dropped his phone throughout the course of its 24-hour narrative”; and Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock by Christoph Dallach (Faber & Faber): “Nationality is a constant question in Dallach’s revelatory and propulsively arranged book, and it sent me running back to these bands — to their sparkling melodies, infinite grooves and rigorous ethics.”

Washington Post reviews Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir by Anna Marie Tendler (S. & S.): “To properly interpret Anna Marie Tendler’s debut memoir, one must have basic literacy in celebrity gossip.” Vulture also reviews: “While Tendler’s confessional writing style is reminiscent of a long email from a friend or dishy voice note, her memoir is anything but a gossipy tell-all.”

StarTribune reviews Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers by Ian O’Connor (Mariner): “O’Connor’s interview with Rodgers doesn’t seem to have produced much new, off-the-field information, but if an insightful look at the magic he has made on the gridiron is what you seek, Out of the Darkness could be for you.”

Briefly Noted

LitHub highlights 24 new books for the week. 

NYT explores the appeal of “shadow daddies” in romantasy. 

T.J. Newman talks with USA Today about her latest thriller, Worst Case Scenario (Little, Brown), and what comes next. 

LA Times highlights Moon Unit Zappa’s forthcoming memoir, Earth to Moon (Dey Street), due out next week. 

NYT looks into how AI is accelerating the field of ancient-texts scholarship.

People shares details from the new book What’s Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service by Melissa Fitzgerald & Mary McCormack (Dutton). 

Leslie Jamison talks with LA Times about completing her friend Rebecca Godfrey’s novel, Peggy (Random), following Godfrey’s death from lung cancer in 2022.

Snowden Wright, author of The Queen City Detective Agency (Morrow), writes about Elmore Leonard and the evolution of the Western for CrimeReads. 

People chats with Julianne Hough about her new novel, Everything We Never Knew, written with Ellen Goodlett (Sourcebooks Landmark).

ElectricLit talks with Navid Sinaki about his book, Medusa of the Roses (Grove), “fortune tellers, genre films, and that secret language between lovers.”

BookRiot highlights “12 of the Funniest Science Fiction and Fantasy Books.”

ElectricLit has “7 Books About the Reverberating Impact of the Partition of India and Pakistan.”

Authors on Air

Joe Moore discusses his new book, White Robes and Broken Badges: Infiltrating the KKK and Exposing the Evil Among Us (Harper), with NPR’s Fresh Air.

NPR's Indicator podcast offers up “beach reads with a side of economics.”

Deadline compiles all the Colleen Hoover books that are becoming movies, while BBC writes about the domestic abuse portrayed in It Ends with Us, based on Hoover’s novel.

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