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Awards & Book News

Victor Luckerson’s Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street (Random) and Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song (Atlantic Monthly) win Dayton Literary Peace Prizes.

A shortlist is announced for the Writers’ Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for 2SLGBTQ+ Emerging Writers. CBC has coverage.

The shortlist for the Writers’ Trust of Canada Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction is also announced. CBC has the news.

In LitHub, three incarcerated readers talk about censorship and ebooks in prison.

Page to Screen

September 20

A Mistake, based on the novel by Carl Shuker. Quiver. Reviews | Trailer

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, based on the novel by Rachel Joyce. Quiver. Reviews | Trailer

September 26

Killer Heat, based on the short story “The Jealousy Man” by Jo Nesbø. Amazon MGM. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

Washington Post reviews Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life by Richard Beck (Crown): “In 500 ambitious pages of pop culture, urban design, automotive trends, surveillance metadata and Batman, Beck constructs a sprawling portrait of why 9/11 is still at the heart of American life”; Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue by Sonia Purnell (Viking): “Purnell tells a brisk tale, but her book lacks the authority and judgment of Sally Bedell Smith’s Reflected Glory, the Pamela biography that appeared in 1996.”

NYT reviews a new edition of Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1 by Karl Marx, ed. by Paul North & Paul Reitter, tr. by Reitter (Princeton Univ.): “No previous English version of Capital has featured such an erudite critical apparatus or such an exacting translation. It’s a remarkable achievement that forces readers to attend to the philosophical subtleties of Marx’s argument.”

NPR’s Fresh Air reviews Entitlement by Rumaan Alam (Riverhead; LJ starred review): “Entitlement is about money, race, identity, privilege, class and consumption—inexhaustible topics that Alam has deftly and wittily explored in his earlier books. But, while there are scattered charged moments here, there’s an overall undercooked feel to this novel.”

LA Times reviews Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism by Sebastian Smee (Norton) and Monet: The Restless Vision by Jackie Wullschläger (Knopf): “Just as the Impressionists liberated easel painting from the treacly academic styles prized by the Salon, Smee and Wullschläger liberate Impressionism from the clichés of dorm-room posters and greeting-card sentimentality. These artists were—and are—radical.”

LitHub gathers the best-reviewed books of the week.

Briefly Noted

NYT has a profile of Katherine Rundell, author of Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures (Doubleday), who talks about writing books for children as well as for adults.

Vulture spills “all the semi-salacious non-scandals” in Kelly Bishop’s memoir The Third Gilmore Girl (Gallery).

Michael Cera, Colman Domingo, and Rachel Weisz will narrate the audiobook of Pedro Almodóvar’s novel The Last Dream (HarperVia), People reports.

On the eve of the U.S. publication of Intermezzo (Farrar), Time argues that “There Will Never Be Another Sally Rooney,” in terms of a woman literary fiction writer who is both popularly and critically adored.

Today Show host Sheinelle Jones will publish her first book, Through Mom’s Eyes: Simple Wisdom from Mothers Who Raised Extraordinary Humans (Putnam), in April 2025. People has the announcement.

Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, will publish a new book, People reports. Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told is due out in June 2025 from Little, Brown.

Deadline reports that JK Rowling has started writing a “futuristic” novel.

NYT has “7 New Books We Recommend This Week.”

Pat Barker, author of The Voyage Home (Doubleday), shares “The Books of My Life” with The Guardian.

Reactor identifies five SFF trilogies that have excellent middle books.

In CrimeReads, A.E. Gauntlett, author of The Stranger at the Wedding (Holt), discusses the appeal of Georges Simenon’s Inspector Maigret series.

CrimeReads has the transcript of Olivia Rutigliano’s talk on detective fiction and visual culture at New York City’s Salmagundi Club.

Mark Podwal, an illustrator who focused on Jewish themes, has died at 79; NYT has an obituary.

Authors on Air

PBS Newshour talks to civil rights attorney and former NYC mayoral candidate Maya Wiley about her new memoir, Remember, You Are a Wiley (Grand Central).

Today, NPR’s Fresh Air will talk to Carl Hiaasen about Bad Monkey, the 2013 novel that inspired the new Apple TV+ series.

Jo Nesbø is adapting his recent horror novel The Night House (Knopf) into a movie; Deadline has the news.

Amazon has greenlighted a series about Patricia Cornwell’s detective Kay Scarpetta, starring Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis, Variety reports.

Netflix has acquired a film adaptation of Alexene Farol Follmuth’s YA romance Twelfth Knight (Tor Teen), Deadline reports.

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