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Awards & News

The shortlist for the inaugural PEN Heaney Prize is announced. 

The Voss Literary Prize shortlist is announced, Books+Publishing reports.

Under a new agreement, Simon & Schuster will distribute ACC Art Books; Publishers Weekly has the news. 

Reviews

LA Times reviews Something Close to Nothing by Tom Pyun (Amble): “Ultimately, this is a novel about the darkly hilarious side of our never-satisfied American dreams. What feels most American about it is how stuffed it is with ideas and energy, with rage and hope, with rash and selfish decisions that leave chaos and hurt in their wake.”

WSJ reviews All the Presidents’ Money: How the Men Who Governed America Governed Their Money by Megan Gorman (Regalo): “There seems to be no correlation between a president’s effectiveness in office and his success in personal finance”; and Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León (Viking): “There is valuable material in his book. We learn at firsthand how vulnerable migrants are to exploitation and how near to social collapse their countries of origin.”

Briefly Noted

LitHub highlights 20 new books for the week. 

Parade suggests 22 new books that publish this week.

CBC shares “Canadian books we can’t wait to read this November.”

ElectricLit shares Indie booksellers’ favorite books publishing this fall and the best adult books about horses.

Sharon Wahl, Everything Flirts: Philosophical Romances (Univ. of Iowa), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers. 

CBC looks at a new memoir, Who We Are: Four Questions For a Life and a Nation (McClelland & Stewart), by Murray Sinclair, a Canadian judge, senator, and Truth and Reconciliation Commission chair who died yesterday at the age of 73. 

BBC reflects on “how Lady Chatterley’s Lover was banned—and became a bestseller.”

Esquire puts J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings books in order.

Martha Stewart’s 100th cookbook, Martha: The Cookbook; 100 Favorite Recipes, with Lessons and Stories from My Kitchen (Clarkson Potter; LJ starred review), arrives this week, along with a new Netflix documentary on her life. Eater looks at Stewart’s other 99 cookbooks.

Broadway actor Stephanie J. Block will conarrate the audiobook of Cher: The Memoir, Part One, People reports. 

Politico writes about how Jon Grinspan’s 2021 book, The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought To Fix Their Democracy, 1865–1915 (Bloomsbury; LJ starred review), has become a cult favorite among members of Congress.

The Rumpus talks with Jennifer Case about her new book, We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood (Trinity Univ.). 

Bustle shares an excerpt from Ilana Kaplan’s new book, Nora Ephron at the Movies: A Visual Celebration of the Writer and Director Behind When Harry Met Sally, You’ve Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, and More (Abrams).

Authors On Air

USA Today highlights Salma Hayek’s new series adaptation of Laura Esquivel’s novel Like Water for Chocolate.

BookRiot previews November book-to-screen adaptations.

BookRiot the Podcast discusses B&N’s Book of the Year Finalists and PW’s Books of the Year.

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