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Awards & News

Robyn Schiff has won the 2024 Four Quartets Prize for her poetry collection Information Desk: An Epic (Penguin Bks.).

The September Indie Next list is out, featuring #1 pick Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Scribner). 

Author John Scalzi has signed a major 10-book deal with Tor Publishing Group and Tor UK. Reactor has the story.

Publishers Weekly highlights the news from Comic-Con. Gizmodo lists 10 winners and five losers from the event.

Publishing Perspectives recaps a new first half year report from Circana BookScan.

A bankruptcy court has approved B&N’s purchase of the Denver-based bookstore Tattered Cover, Shelf-Awareness reports.

Reviews

NPR reviews The Most by Jessica Anthony (Little, Brown): “Jessica Anthony’s new novel, The Most, blindsided me with its power, much like the cunning tennis strategy from which it gets its title. I don’t say this often, but this superb short novel, about a marriage at its breakpoint, deserves to become a classic.”

Datebook reviews Someone Like Us by Dinaw Mengestu (Knopf): “Maybe that’s his grand experiment—to write a novel that shows more than tells just how meaningful but truly disparate and often opaque any one immigrant’s story can be.”

Washington Post reviews Beep by Bill Roorbach (Algonquin): “Anyway, Beep can’t be a cult classic if it’s for everybody. You know who you are.”

Star Tribune reviews The Wedding People by Alison Espach (Holt; LJ starred review): “I would bet that’s why Espach called her novel The Wedding People instead of The Wedding Party or The Wedding Guests. Conviviality isn’t part of the picture. It’s bound to be a train wreck, and you’re invited.”

Autostraddle reviews Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory by Solomon J. Brager (Morrow): “Brager’s weaving of their family’s story and this historical and theoretical analysis works seamlessly throughout Heavyweight.”

WSJ shares the 12 best book reviews of July. 

BookMarks recaps the best reviewed books of the month.

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for The Wedding People by Alison Espach (Holt; LJ starred review), the top holds title of the week. 

LJ has new prepub alerts. 

Parade highlights new releases for the week. 

LA Times previews 10 books for August.

BookRiot suggests 10 new mystery, thriller, and true crime books for August. 

Reactor has “Six Closed Circle Mysteries To Ensnare Your Brain.”

HipLatina shares “11 Empowering Body Positivity Books by WOC.”

Soma Mei Sheng Frazier talks with ElectricLit about her new book, Off the Books (Holt), “and how being a parent has made her a better writer.”

Riley Keough announced a fall book tour for her mother Lisa Marie Presley’s forthcoming posthumous memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir (Random), due out October 8. People has the story. 

Ebony talks with Jay Ellis about his new book, Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood (One World). 

TikTok influencer and podcaster Drew Afualo talks with Wired about her new book, Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve (AUWA). 

The Rumpus has a conversation with Claire Oshetsky about their novel Poor Deer (Ecco). 

Vox considers “the short shelf-life of the White House tell-all.”

Bret Anthony Johnston, We Burn Daylight (Random), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers.

Authors on Air

Jessica Anthony discusses her book The Most (Little, Brown) with B&N’s Poured Over podcast.

NPR’s Code Switch podcast explores how book bans affect Indigenous literature.

Entertainment Weekly lists the 29 best book to screen adaptations of all time. 

Essence highlights author and politician Stacey Abrams’s new weekly podcast, Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams, which launches August 15. 

Jay Ellis, Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood (One World), visits GMA today, as does Robert Jobson, Catherine, the Princess of Wales (Pegasus).

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