On Friday night the winners of the Los Angeles Times Book Awards were named. They include: Biography Robert Caro, The Passage of Power (Knopf) Current Interest Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Random House) Fiction Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Ecco) First Fiction Maggie Shipstead, Seating Arrangements (Knopf) Mystery/Thriller Tana French, Broken Harbor (Viking) Other winners included Sammy Harkham (graphic novel); Fergus Bordewich (history); Louise Gluck (poetry); Florence Willams (science/tech); and A.S. King (YA).
Awards
Indies Choose Erdrich, Strayed, Ivey and Green and More
The ABA announced a popular set of Indies Choice Award winners for 2013, selecting “handselling favorites” as voted on by member stores. The honorees are: Fiction The Round House: A Novel, by Louise Erdrich (Harper) Nonfiction Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed (Knopf) Debut The Snow Child, by Eowyn Ivey (Little, Brown) Young Adult The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green (Dutton Children’s) John Green also won their “Indie Champion Award” Middle Grade Wonder, by R.J. Palacio (Knopf Books for Young Readers) Picture Book Extra Yarn, by Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illus.) […]
People, Etc.: NYT Changes Advice Lists
As of the April 28 lists, the New York Times is changing their Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous bestseller lists. The separate hardcover and paperback lists–each listing 10 positions, with another 5 “also selling” titles–are combined into a single list with 20 numbered positions. The new combined list also incorporates ebook sales along with print sales. (Up until now, the paper has noted “e-book sales for advice & how-to books, children’s books and graphic books will be tracked at a future date.”) The first iteration is dominated by food and diet books, but a new business bestseller–PL Spring/Summer Buzz Book […]
Authors and Awards
Dwight Garner profiles John le Carré in this weekend’s NYT Magazine, saying he “is still writing at something close to the top of his game.” On his May release A DELICATE TRUTH, Garner writes: “The book is an elegant yet embittered indictment of extraordinary rendition, American right-wing evangelical excess and the corporatization of warfare. It has a gently flickering love story and a jangling ending. And le Carré has not lost his ability to sketch, in a line or two, an entire character.” Also in the magazine is an excerpt from Brian Stelter‘s TOP OF THE MORNING, which publishes next week. Time magazine selects their annual list of “the 100 […]
People, Etc.
A.S.A. Harrison, 65, died April 14 in Toronto. Her debut psychological suspense novel THE SILENT WIFE will be published by Penguin Books, who said in a statement: “We are deeply saddened over the loss of a great woman and a very gifted writer.” A memorial service for longtime Knopf vp, senior editor Ashbel Green, who died last September at the age of 84, will be held in New York at Cooper Union on Thursday, April 25th at 5:00 pm in the Great Hall. A funeral for bestselling author Brennan Manning, best known for The Ragamuffin Gospel, will be held Wednesday, April 17, […]
Awards: Women’s Prize Shortlist; Guardian Hot Key Winners; Pulitzer Reprint Plans
The UK prize formerly known as the Orange, now called the Women’s Prize, posted a powerful shortlist, as Hilary Mantel looks to add a third award alongside her Booker and Costa. The winner will be named June 5: Kate Atkinson, Life After Life AM Homes, May We Be Forgiven Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies Maria Semple, Where’d You Go, Bernadette? Zadie Smith, NW You can find previous winners listed here. The first Guardian Hot Key Books Young Writers prize has awarded publishing contracts to two young YA writers in their twenties. Hot Key Books will […]