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Awards News

Canada's Governor General’s Literary Awards are announced. Shelia Heti wins the fiction award for Pure Colour (FSG). CBC has coverage. 

Winners of the Polari book prizes are announced, including Joelle Taylor for her collection, C+nto & Othered Poems (The Westbourne Pr.). The Guardian reports. Publishing Perspectives also has coverage. 

The Andrew Carnegie Medal shortlist is announced.

Scotland’s National Book Awards shortlist is announced. 

The Tasmanian Literary Awards 2022 shortlists are announced.

The Grammy Awards nominations are announced. Nominees for Best Spoken Word Album include: Act Like You Got Some Sense by Jamie Foxx (Hachette Audio); All About Me!: My Remarkable Life In Show Business By Mel Brooks (Penguin Random House Audio); Aristotle And Dante Dive Into The Waters Of The World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, narrated by Lin-Manuel Miranda (S. & S.); Finding Me by Viola Davis (Harper Audio), and Music Is History by Questlove (RB Media). Shadow+Act highlights Viola Davis’s nomination. 

Booklists & News

December’s LibraryReads list features top pick, The Circus Train by Amita Parikh (Putnam). 

November's EarlyWord GalleyChat spreadsheet is out now. 

LJ’s Barbara Hoffert has new prepub alerts for STEM, Social Sciences, and SF/Fantasy/Horror.

NYT features newly published books for the week. 

AARP shares "The Weekly Read: What’s New in Books."

ElectricLit shares "11 Historical Novels About Women Misbehaving and Making History."

BookRiot suggests 42 fantasy books, and 21 books that went viral on TikTok. 

Margaret Atwood is banned from Russia. LitHub reports. 

Reviews

The Washington Post reviews Now Is Not the Time To Panic by Kevin Wilson (Ecco): “plumbs both the intensity of an early creative experience and the strange way such experiences get preserved in the amber of our minds. The result is another tender, moving novel by an author who understands how truly bizarre ordinary life is.”

NYT reviews Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency by Andy Greenberg (Doubleday; LJ starred review): “A reader comes away with no sympathy for the various criminals caught in the course of Greenberg’s book.” And, The Essential Dick Gregory by Dick Gregory (Amistad): "It’s a grab bag of mostly unpublished material, interviews and speeches and talks, with a few book excerpts. A big part of Gregory’s humor was in his delivery, and on the page he’s shorn of that."

LA Times reviews Pathetic Literature by Eileen Myles (Grove): “Pathetic Literature represents not so much a collection as it does an ethos: “almost a poem,” its creator observes. These texts and voices take us someplace unexpected, beyond the individual and into the realm of a collective, a tapestry of words that add up to a way of being in the world.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama (Crown), the top holds title of the week. OprahDaily has an interview with Obama, and an excerpt from the book. People shares details about Obama's book tour, as does USA Today. AARP offers 5 lessons from the book. 

NYT profiles Bonnie Garmus and the appeal of her book, Lessons in Chemistry (Doubleday).

LA Times features The World Deserves My Children by comedian Natasha Leggero (Gallery).

Entertainment Weekly highlights Cocktail Time!: The Ultimate Guide to Grown-Up Fun by Bridesmaids director Paul Feig (William Morrow Cookbooks), and shares three recipes from the book.

The Millions talks with Elissa Bassist about her book, Hysterical (Hachette), in a “lightly stylized like a medical questionnaire” interview. 

Paulina Porizkova discusses her book, No Filter: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful (The Open Field), and "redefining herself in middle age," with Shondaland. 

FoxNews Digital talks with Harris Faulkner about her new book, Faith Still Moves Mountains: Miraculous Stories of the Healing Power of Prayer (Broadside Books).

M. Rowell writes about the path to publication of her debut Native American mystery, Never Name the Dead (Crooked Lane), at CrimeReads. 

Datebook highlights the best Bay Area books for the holidays. 

Authors on Air

NPR’s Morning Edition reports that some of Joan Didion's possessions will be auctioned off by her estate.

Michelle Obama talks about "parenting, partnerships and political action," on NPR's Life Kit. 

Ewan Morrison’s new book, How to Survive Everything (Harper Perennial), has been optioned for TV. Deadline reports.

Amanda Montell’s Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Harper Wave: HarperCollins), is being adapted as a docuseries. Deadline reports.

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