The ABA named Jamel Brinkley’s short story collection A Lucky Man as their No. 1 pick for May. Also on the list are Sarah Winman’s Tin Man; Aimee Molloy’s The Perfect Mother; Stephen McCauley’s My Ex-Life; Jenny Milchman’s Wicked River; and Sheila Heti’s Motherhood, all of which are featured in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer and available to sample now. The rest of the list: Noir, by Christopher Moore Love and Ruin, by Paula McLain The Ensemble, by Aja Gabel The Only Story, by Julian Barnes Welcome to Lagos, by Chibundu Onuzo Warlight, by Michael Ondaatje The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner Mr. Flood’s Last Resort, by Jess Kidd […]
Awards
People, Etc.
Jaime Levine will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on April 30 as senior editor focusing on acquiring psychological suspense, thrillers, and mysteries. Theresa Collier has been promoted to senior manager, publicity and marketing at Artisan Books. At Sourcebooks, Jillian Rahn has been promoted to associate art director. The Guggenheim Fellows were named for 2018, including fiction writers Rachel Cusk, Andrew Sean Greer, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Haigh, Min Jin Lee, China Miéville, and Deb Olin Unferth; nonfiction writers Nicholson Baker, Teju Cole, Robert Finch, Roxane Gay, Jane Kamensky, John Jeremiah Sullivan, and Lily Tuck; and nine poets. Acquisitions Independent Publishers Group has acquired academic book distributor […]
Awards, and More
Awards Joan Silber won the PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel Improvement (which won the NBCC Award last month.) She will receive the $15,000 award at a ceremony on May 5 at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. John F. Cogan will receive the Manhattan Institute’s Hayek Book Prize for The High Cost of Good Intentions. The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, honoring books that address racism and diversity, are going to Jesmyn Ward, Kevin Young, N. Scott Momaday and Shane McCrae. The newest book promotion from Bill Gates is for his late friend Hans Rosling‘s Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the […]
April iBooks Picks
The iBooks favorites for April include Barbara Lipska’s The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer and available to download now. The rest of the list features: The Female Persuasion, by Meg Wolitzer A Nantucket Wedding, by Nancy Thayer Greeks Bearing Gifts, by Philip Kerr The Recovering, by Leslie Jamison The Fallen, by David Baldacci Circe, by Madeline Miller The Overstory, by Richard Powers School for Psychics, by K.C. Archer Savor You, by Kristin Proby The Opposite of Hate, by Sally Kohn And Now We Have Everything, by Meaghan O’Connell Heads of the Colored People, by Nafissa Thompson-Spires Rebound, by Kwame Alexander How to Write and Autobiographical Novel, by Alexander Chee […]
April Picks
The new PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club “Now Read This” selection is Dan Egan’s The Death and Life of the Great Lakes. The April Pennie’s Pick at Costco is Anthony Horowitz’s Magpie Murders. Amazon‘s spotlight pick for April is Madeline Miller’s Circe, and their featured debut is Charles Soule’s The Oracle Year. Also on their top 10 for the month are: The Female Persuasion, by Meg Wolitzer You Think It, I’ll Say It, by Curtis Sittenfeld The Overstory, by Richard Powers Look Alive Out There, by Sloane Crosley The Only Story, Julian Barnes You All Grow Up and Leave Me, Piper Weiss Varina, by […]
Awards: Wang Wins PEN/Hemingway; Indies Choice Finalists; and More
Weike Wang has won the PEN/Hemingway Award for her debut novel Chemistry. She will receive $25,000 at an awards ceremony in Boston on April 8. Lisa Ko’s The Leavers and Adelia Saunders’ Indelible were the runners-up, while The Graybar Hotel by Curtis Dawkins and Live from Cairo by Ian Bassingthwaighte received honorable mentions. In other awards news, the James Tait Black Prizes announced their nominees in fiction and nonfiction, with the winners to be named on August 18. The American Booksellers Association announced the finalists for the 2018 Indies Choice Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards, with the winners to be announced May 2. The nominees […]