Earlier today we incorrectly identified Amber Ruffin as the host of the National Book Awards ceremony. Ruffin will host the finalist reading on Tuesday, November 14. A host for the ceremony has not yet been announced.
Archives for October 2023
People 10/3
KDPR senior production managers Quinn O’Neill, Lorraine Hyland, and Romeo Enriquez and senior designer Maggie Hinders have all taken the company's VSO package and will leave the publisher on November 1.
GMA Book Club
The List by Yomi Adegoke is the GMA Book Club Pick for October.
New Books Publishing October 3
Brandon Sanderson, Melissa Broder, and Lydia Davis publish new fiction this week, while new nonfiction includes a National Book Award Finalist by Viet Thanh Nguyen, plus Patrick Stewart’s memoir and Michael Lewis’s deep dive on Sam Bankman-Fried. In children’s books, Brandy Colbert, Elana K. Arnold, and Deb Caletti publish new YA novels this month. Also out this week are Jonathan Lethem’s Brooklyn Crime Novel, a Read with Jenna pick by Safiya Sinclair’s Read with Jenna pick How to Say Babylon, Brittany Means’ Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways, and Ashley Winstead’s Midnight is the Darkest Hour, all available to sample […]
National Book Award Shortlists
The National Book Foundation announced its shortlists for the National Book Awards, with the winners to be named at a ceremony in New York on Wednesday, November 15. One thing we know already: Every author will be a first-time winner. Only three of the nominees have made a shortlist in the past: Pilar Quintana and Lisa Dillman were finalists for Translated Literature in 2020; and Monica Youn was a finalist for Poetry in 2010. (Paul Harding, nominated for fiction, was a suprise winner of the Pulitzer in 2010 for Tinkers. He is the only NBA-nominated fiction writer also shortlisted for […]