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Awards & Book News

The winners of the UK PEN Translates Awards are announced.

Joan Didion’s “astonishingly intimate” diary from 1999 will be published; Notes to John is due out from Knopf on Apr. 22, The Guardian reports. NYT also has coverage.

Literary organizations release a joint statement decrying the Trump administration’s anti-trans executive order, Publishers Weekly reports.

New Title Bestsellers

Links for the week: NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers | NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers | USA Today Bestselling Books

Fiction

The Crash by Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen) speeds to No. 3 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Night Is Defying by Chloe C. Peñaranda (Bramble) goes to No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list and No. 9 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Nonfiction

The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes (Penguin Pr.) reaches No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir by Neko Case (Grand Central) commands No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future by Reid Hoffman & Greg Beato (Authors Equity) hits No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list, though some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning by Peter Beinart (Knopf) gets No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Reviews

Washington Post reviews Memorial Days: A Memoir by Geraldine Brooks (Viking): “Brooks effectively employs a dual timeline, a structure popular in contemporary fiction. She toggles between describing the day of Horwitz’s death and the weeks immediately following, and recounting, in alternate chapters, a period of self-imposed exile she undertook more than three years later.”

LA Times reviews Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays by Edgar Gomez (Crown): “Like fellow memoirists Édouard Louis and Annie Ernaux, Gomez approaches life-writing as a way not just to process but to reprocess the past…. The book’s subtitle, ‘A Memoir in Essays,’ is less about the discursive qualities of Gomez’s writing than a hint that the book might best be understood as a series of attempts: to find love and a place in the world, to survive as a writer-activist and queer person of color, to reencounter his parents on an equal footing.”

LitHub shares “Five Book Reviews You Need To Read this Week."

Briefly Noted

Sarah Chihaya, author of Bibliophobia: A Memoir (Random; LJ starred review), shares her “Annotated Nightstand” with LitHub.

Elinor Lipman, author of Every Tom, Dick & Harry (Harper), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

Nick Medina, author of Indian Burial Ground, will publish a new horror novel; The Whistler is due out from Berkley on Sept. 23. People has the announcement and an excerpt.

CrimeReads suggests “5 Books Where Black Women Are Doing The Most” and 10 new books coming out this week.

NYT offers a starter pack of classic romance novels and helps readers find their next romance.

Reactor rounds up all the new SF books arriving in February and five novels about space colonies.

Anson Rabinbach, leading historian of Nazi culture, has died at 79; NYT has an obituary.

Authors on Air

Thomas Dai, author of Take My Name But Say It Slow: Essays (Norton), talks to LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast.

Alton Brown, author of Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations (Gallery), speaks with PBS NewsHour.

Today, NPR’s Fresh Air will interview Brittany Newell, author of Soft Core (Farrar).

Shelf Awareness rounds up the schedule for this weekend’s Book TV on C-SPAN 2.

Hollywood insider Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas’s first novel, Climbing in Heels (due out Apr. 29 from St. Martin’s), will be adapted for TV by Darren Starr, LA Times reports.

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