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Awards & News

Shehan Karunatilaka wins the Booker Prize for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Norton). NYT has coverage, as does USA Today, and The Guardian.

Kim de l’Horizon wins the 2022 German Book Prize for Blood Book. Publishing Perspectives has details.

Violet Kupersmith wins the Bard Fiction Prize for Build Your House Around My Body (Random).

LibraryReads releases the top ten books published in November 2022, including top pick Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail by Ashley Herring Blake (Berkley).

Harper Collins union votes for second strike. Publishers Lunch reports. 

Reviews

NYT reviews README.txt: A Memoir by Chelsea Manning (Farrar): “This particular 'README' has hard lessons to impart; it is less instruction manual than frightening cautionary tale.” And, The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland (Harper): “includes harrowing details about Auschwitz that still have the power to shock. But the reactions to Vrba’s testimony by those in power — ranging from lack of interest to outright antisemitism — are nearly as horrifying.” Also, Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story by Joe Coscarelli (S. & S.; LJ starred review): “What emerges is a rap game that eschews the purist and largely regional divide between 20th-century East and West Coast rap music and disrupts the romantic mythos of rapper as poet, the diligent street griot with a rhyme book.” Plus, Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life by Margaret Sullivan (St. Martin’s): “Sullivan has avoided the traps for the most part, combining highlights and lowlights of her glass-ceiling-defying career with an opinionated but fair and accessible tour of the big debates roiling the ‘reality-based press,’ as she calls mainstream newsrooms.”

The Washington Post reviews Coffee with Hitler: The Untold Story of the Amateur Spies Who Tried To Civilize Hitler by Charles Spicer (Pegasus; LJ starred review): “This is a complex tale, but as skillfully narrated by Spicer, it moves along briskly. His main characters are not easy to characterize either, but he brings them to life, with all their contradictions.”

OprahDaily reviews The Passenger and Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf): “McCarthy’s art is transcendent even as it takes no prisoners. His work will enthrall us into the future, even as it frightens, flummoxes, bewitches.”

Briefly Noted

John Irving talks with the LA Times about his latest book, The Last Chairlift (S. & S.), and says he wants “to die with my head on my desk in the middle of a sentence.”

USA Today talks with Tom Felton about his new book, Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard (Grand Central: Life & Style), his escape from rehab, and his bond with Emma Watson. 

Journalist Katherine Corcoran discusses her new book, In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press (Bloomsbury), which “aims to uncover the truth behind Martinez’s murder while also underscoring the larger implications for civil society,” with LA Times.

Ralph Macchio, author of the new memoir Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me (Dutton), talks about Cobra Kai and his relationship with Pat Morita with USA Today. Macchio also talks with FoxNews about why he turned down the Karate Kid remake.

Parade chats with Tamera Mowry-Housley about her new memoir, You Should Sit Down for This: A Memoir about Life, Wine, and Cookies (Legacy Lit).

USA Today has a feature on Gabrielle Stanley Blair and her new book, Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion (Workman).

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe will will write a memoir about the six years she spent in jail in Iran and the campaign for her release.The Guardian reports.

LitHub has 13 books for the week.

The Millions shares notable new releases this week.

The Washington Post suggests 10 short story collections.

CrimeReads previews the best international crime fiction for fall.

Buzzfeed recommends 19 True Crime audiobooks and podcasts for after watching Dahmer on Netflix.

HipLatina has "13 Magical Realism & Horror Books by Latina Writers Perfect for Fall."

Authors On Air

NPR’s Morning Edition talks with Jon Meacham about his new book, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle (Random; LJ starred review).

NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Chelsea Manning, README.txt: A Memoir (Farrar), about her “childhood, her long struggle with gender dysphoria, her entry into the Army and the events that landed her in prison.”

NPR’s Morning Edition talks with ex NBA star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf about his autobiography, In the Blink of an Eye, written with Nick Chiles (Kaepernick Publishing).

Geena Davis, Dying of Politeness (HarperOne), discusses lessons learned on A League of Their Own, with Good Morning America.

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