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Awards & Publishing News

Shankari Chandran wins the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her book, Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. The Guardian also has coverage.

The 2023 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards are announced. The Night Eaters, Book 1: She Eats the Night by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Abrams ComicArts) and Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly) take top prizes.

The PANZ Book Design Awards 2023 finalists are announced.

George R.R. Martin updates fans on Winds of Winter, amid HBO deal suspension. Entertainment Weekly has the story. LA Times also has coverage, as does AV Club.

Publishing Perspectives provides analysis from AAP’s May StatShot, showing a flat U.S. book market.

Harper Focus launches a new Spanish language publishing imprint, Harper Enfoque. Publisher’s Lunch reports.

Blackstone Publishing will distribute Canadian Indie publisher, Rising Action Publishing.

NYCLU’s Lee Rowland will take the helm as executive director of the National Coalition Against Censorship. PW reports.

Abrams restructures its marketing and publicity groups. Publishers Lunch has details.

Reviews

NYT reviews Disruptions: Stories by Steven Millhauser (Knopf): “Several of the stories are among his best; a few are midlevel Millhauser; a handful of others don’t rise above craft. So it goes with books of short stories”; and Theoderic the Great: King of Goths, Ruler of Romans by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, tr. by John Noel Dillon (Yale Univ. Pr.): “His text is academic, but rich. It expertly reveals the constraints that governed different strata of late antique society, and in revealing the sinews of Theoderic’s state, it captures the unassuming side of social change and the subtle workings of mutual adaptation.”

Datebook reviews Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo (Ecco): “Acevedo eloquently captures the rich tenor of the Dominican American experience, both in Family Lore and in her books for young adults.”

NPR reviews Someone Who Isn’t Me by Geoff Rickly (Rose Bks.): “Taken alone, Rickly’s book is a solid and promising literary debut. Placed in the context of his entire body of creative work, Someone Who Isn't Me is likely to be the raw, opening salvo of a impressive new career.” Plus, NPR’s Fresh Air has paired reviews of Still Laughing: A Life in Comedy from the Creator of Laugh-in by George Schlatter & Jon Macks (Unnamed Pr.), and Ernie in Kovacsland: Writings, Drawings, and Photographs from Television’s Original Genius (Fantagraphics): “

The Guardian reviews Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake (Harper): “I would tell you there is something epiphanic about Tom Lake, only that adjective won’t do at all, for the understanding comes, not in some soaring climax, but cumulatively, across many moments, each one brimful of the half glimpsed, the almost understood.”

The Washington Post reviews Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles by Kate Flannery (Holt): “Though Flannery is clear-eyed about the exploitation and pettiness of American Apparel under Charney …she avoids the pitfalls of easy dogmatism, weaving in the sneaking suggestion that perhaps every company is just as exploitative, if not quite so nakedly”; and My Name Is Iris by Brando Skyhorse (Avid Reader Pr.: S & S): “As Skyhorse’s clever satire accelerates into a truly terrifying thriller, the most insidious functions of racism appear illuminated in an eerie new light.”

LA Times reviews The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear by Nat Segaloff (Citadel; LJ starred review): “In his dutiful, soup-to-nuts book about the movie and its legacy, Segaloff, who was publicity director for a Boston theater chain where the movie showed during its original run, addresses the question of what made so many Exorcist viewers throw up.”

Briefly Noted

Entertainment Weekly shares five revelations from The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear by Nat Segaloff (Citadel; LJ starred review).

Silvia Moreno-Garcia discusses Silver Nitrate (Del Rey: Ballantine), the “golden age of Mexican cinema, occultism, and the pitfalls of ethnocentrism,” at Shondaland.

USA Today previews Jada Pinkett Smith’s forthcoming memoir, Worthy (Dey Street), due out on October 17.

At People, Trevor Noah previews his forthcoming graphic novel, Into the Uncut Grass illus. by Christopher Myers (One World), due out October 31.

Colin Walsh pens an essay for CrimeReads about the noir influences that shaped his new novel, Kala (Doubleday).

LitHub highlights 21 new books for the week.

BookRiot shares 25 best romance series, 10 horror books about dolls, and 9 gentle self-help books.

Shondaland offers “8 Books to Turn to When Life Gets Overwhelming.”

BookRiot has a reading pathway for author Aya de León’.

The Atlantic suggests books for learning new skills.

OprahDaily shares five books Barbie would have in her dream house.

Seiichi Morimura, author of The Devil’s Gluttony, has died at the age of 90. USA Today has an obituary.

Authors on Air

Colson Whitehead talks about Crook Manifesto (Doubleday), with NPR’s Fresh Air.

NPR's Book of the Day talks with Nishanth Injam about her new story collection, The Best Possible Experience (Pantheon).

Richard Russo chats about his latest book, Somebody’s Fool (Knopf), on B&N’s Poured Over podcast.

Ted Anton, author of Programmable Planet: The Synthetic Biology Revolution (Columbia Univ. Pr.), is a guest on the Keen On podcast.

Roxane Gay appears on the Talk Easy podcast.

Chloe Gong, Immortal Longings (Gallery: Saga), discusses the use of AI in writing, with io9.

BookRiot’s All the Books! podcast talks about this week’s new releases.

The Summer Book, based on the novel by Tove Jansson, gets a SAG-AFTRA waiver to continue shooting during the actors' strike. Deadline has the story.

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