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Awards, News & Events

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize announces that Wil Haygood will receive the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. NPR reports.

PEN America, The New York Public Library, and Penguin Random House partner to present Stand with Salman: Defend the Freedom to Write in NYC on August 19th. The event will be livestreamed on NYPL’s YouTube channel. NYPL provides a Salman Rushdie reading list. The Guardian provides context. And, PEN America suggests ways to show support. 

The International Booker Prize names the jury for 2023.

Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man (Riverhead; LJ starred review), will give keynote at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Publishing Perspectives has details.

Publishers Weekly recaps its DOJ v. PRH coverage.

Reviews

The Washington Post reviews Haven by Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown): “very few readers have been praying for a novel like this. But Haven creates an eerie, meditative atmosphere that should resonate with anyone willing to think deeply about the blessings and costs of devoting one’s life to a transcendent cause.”

NYT reviews Breaking History: A White House Memoir by Jared Kushner (Broadside): “is an earnest and soulless — Kushner looks like a mannequin, and he writes like one — and peculiarly selective appraisal of Donald J. Trump’s term in office.” And, Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls by Kathleen Hale (Grove): "If there’s a true crime voice, it’s that of a Midwestern prime-time news anchor, totally deracinated and mellifluous — the kind that makes the worst horrors seem matter-of-fact, not occasions for contemplation but for strict punishment. That isn’t Kathleen Hale’s voice, exactly, but it’s close.” Also, As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy by Alice Sedgwick Wohl (Farrar): “Wohl has defiantly written an entire book in the first person singular. Her late-life memoir, As It Turns Out — published just before its author’s 91st birthday — is beautiful, if not exactly joyful.”The Washington Post also reviews: “Unflinching in its honesty, Wohl’s memoir provides a disquieting glimpse into one family in America’s privileged class, a family made worthy of examination because one of its members — whose presence lives on luminously in her films — remains a source of fascination more than 50 years after her death.”

NPR reviews Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes (Knopf): “Barnes' 25th book features a theme that runs through much of his work: the difficulty of pinning down another person's life, whether someone you knew and loved or someone who predated you by centuries.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and LJ share read-alikes for Overkill, by Sandra Brown (Grand Central), the top holds title of the week.

USA Today talks with fashion reporter Gianluca Russo about size equality and his debut book, The Power of Plus: Inside Fashion's Size-Inclusivity Revolution (Chicago Review Pr.).

Time interviews Mimi Zhu about their debut book, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection (Penguin Life), and love after trauma.

K-Ming Chang, Gods of Want: Stories (One World), talks to The Guardian about writing her new book, memories, and myth.

LA Times has a feature on Beth Macy, Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis (Little, Brown), and why she “stays on the opioid beat.”

Entertainment Weekly shares and concept art and excerpt of the wedding scene from Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel by Beth Revis (Random House Worlds).

Joanna Gaines announces her forthcoming memoir, The Stories We Tell: Every Piece of Your Story Matters (Harper Select), arriving on November 8. People has coverage.

Olaf Olafsson, Touch (Ecco), leads a literary tour of Reykjavík for NYT.

Mike Mariani adapts material from his forthcoming book, What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us: Who We Become After Tragedy and Trauma (Ballantine), in an essay for Wired.

Jamil Jan Kochari, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak And Other Stories (Viking; LJ starred review), reunites with a beloved teacher in an NPR feature story.

The Guardian asks: “Are literary festivals doomed?”

Vulture shares “The Best Horror Novels of 2022 (So Far)."

CrimeReads shares summer’s best debut novels, and a booklist of psychopathic women.

Authors On Air

NPR’s Fresh Air talks with Congressman Adam Schiff, Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could (Random House), about the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago.

Kenya Barris will direct re-imagining of The Wizard of Oz. Deadline reports.

A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey (Atheneum Books for Young Readers), is being adapted for film.  Deadline reports. 

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