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Awards & News

The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize announces its 2023 shortlist. 

The 2023 Eugie Award finalists are announced. Locus has details. 

Britney Spears announces that her new memoir, The Woman in Me (Gallery), will be published October 24. Entertainment Weekly has the story. USA Today, Vogue, and Vanity Fair also have coverage. 

Milan Kundera, who wrote The Unbearable Lightness of Being dies at the age of 94. NYT has an obituary. The Guardian and NPR have remembrances.

NPR reports that Justice Sotomayor’s staff urged schools and libraries to buy her books.

The 75th Emmy Awards nominations are announced today. 

Harlequin launches the new imprint Afterglow Books.

Reviews

NYT reviews Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II by Judy Rakowsky (Sourcebooks; LJ starred review): “Rakowsky has written a moving and sometimes shocking book that often reads like a thriller.”

The Guardian reviews Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday): “Crook Manifesto continues the brilliantly realised sequence that began with Harlem Shuffle, intricately depicting cultural history and family drama with the compelling energy of a crime thriller and the sharp wit of social satire.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Hello Stranger by Katherine Center (St. Martin's), the top holds title of the week. 

LJ’s Barbara Hoffert has new prepub alerts. 

David Lipsky discusses his new book, The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial (Norton), with LA Times. There is also a conversation with John Milas about the gothic elements in his new book, The Militia House (Holt).

The Washington Post chats with Jake Tapper about his new thriller, All the Demons Are Here (Little, Brown). 

Chuck Tingle talks about horror and Camp Damascus (Tor Nightfire; LJ starred review), at Tor.

Maureen Lee Lenker discusses the inspirations behind It Happened One Fight (Sourcebooks Casablanca; LJ starred review), at EW. 

NYT rounds up the best books by John le Carré.

Jonathan Taylor adapts material from his forthcoming book, Butterfly in the Sky: “Reading Rainbow” and the Endless Challenge of Entertaining While Educating Our Children, in an article for LA Times. 

Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe (Scribner), answers 10 questions for Poets&Writers. 

Tessa Hadley, After the Funeral and Other Stories (Knopf), tackles the LitHub Questionnaire.

CrimeReads shares 10 horror books to read in the summer, a brief history of New England noir, and “masterpieces of the uncanny, marvelous, and strange.”

LitHub looks back on the first reviews of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. 

Authors On Air

Sarah Weinman, editor of Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning (Ecco), talks about “crime as a catalyst for social change” on the Keen On podcast. 

Susan Williams explores Charles Dickens’s Bleak House, with the Windham-Campbell Prizes podcast. 

Wonka, based on characters by Roald Dahl, gets a new trailer. USA Today has details. The film opens on December 15.

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