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Awards, News & Buzzy Book Previews

Mahreen Sohail wins the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her story collection Small Scale Sinners (Public Space). 

Virginia Evans wins the James Patterson & Bookshop.org Prize for The Correspondent (Crown).

Author T. J. Stiles wins the BIO Award for his career in biography writing.

The British Science Fiction Association Award winners are announced, Locus reports. 

The I Love My Librarian Award honorees for outstanding public service are announced. 

“The Great Spring Preview” arrives from The Millions.

Publishers Weekly provides a recap of last week’s PLA Conference.  

Shelf Awareness rounds up last week’s top-selling self-published titles. 

April Book Club Picks

Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear (Knopf) is GMA’s April book club pick. 

Emma Brodie's Into the Blue: A Love Story (Ballantine) is the Reese Witherspoon pick.

Upward Bound by Woody Brown (Hogarth) is the Read with Jenna pick.

Mothers and Other Strangers by Corey Ann Haydu (Little, Brown) is B&N’s pick.

Tara Menon’s Under Water (Riverhead) is Dakota Johnson’s TeaTime Book Club pick. 

People also rounds up picks from Katie Couric and Natalie Portman. 

Reviews

NYT reviews The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke (Harper; LJ starred review): “The Ending Writes Itself is great fun—chilling, thrilling, satisfyingly pulpy and smart—that will appeal to mystery fans, and to anyone who has ever attempted to publish a book”; Hexes of the Deadwood Forest by Agnieszka Szpila, tr. by Scotia Gilroy (Pantheon): “At its most ingenious moments, the work lands as not just calumny, but also satire; the high-wire act of its unreliability is occasionally thrilling—and you can’t forget its sheer audacity”; American Fantasy by Emma Straub (Riverhead): “The linear plotting in American Fantasy picks up various strands of mild conflict and self-actualization as it goes, with a sweet late-game wisp of wish-fulfillment romance. But like the ship on its short route—‘Miami, Bahamas, Miami, a small loop in the shape of a deflating balloon’ — it mostly moves unhurriedly, a throwback melody bobbing along on a current of Top 40 party playlists and gentle emotional swells”; and Corto Maltese: Fable of Venice and Other Adventures by Hugo Pratt, tr. by Dean Mullaney & Simone Castaldi (Fantagraphics): “Pratt is near the top of a short list of the greatest cartoonists ever to ply the trade. His most famous creation, the tall, louche, antiheroic sailor Corto Maltese, is back in print in English with Fable of Venice and Other Adventures, a collection of five punchy short stories, originally published in 1967, heavy on swashbuckling and treasure hunting.”

Seattle Times reviews Python’s Kiss: Stories by Louise Erdrich (Harper): “The stories are mostly not related to each other, but if there’s an overarching theme, it’s that Erdrich is not afraid to take chances.”

Briefly Noted

LitHub highlights 25 new books for the week. 

BookRiot shares April’s new sci-fi/fantasy, romances, and mermaid romances and romantasies.

Electric Lit offers “8 Revolutionary Novels and Stories by Arab Women.”

USA Today shares an excerpt from hospitality entrepreneur David Grutman’s Take It Personal: How To Succeed by Building Relationships and Playing the Long Game (Zando; LJ starred review). 

Caro Claire Burke discusses her novel Yesteryear (Knopf) with Elle. 

Emma Straub talks about her novel American Fantasy (Riverhead) and embracing fandom at USA Today. 

People shares an excerpt from Amy Clipston’s forthcoming Candy Apple Kisses (Thomas Nelson), due out July 7. 

Historian and author Ronald H. Spector has died at the age of 83. NYT has an obituary. 

Authors on Air

NPR’s Morning Edition talks with actress Chase Infiniti, who stars in The Testaments, based on Margaret Atwood’s novel. The series premieres on Hulu on Disney+ tomorrow. 

NPR’s Fresh Air talks with Arsenio Hall about his new book, Arsenio: A Memoir (Atria; LJ starred review). 

BookRiot highlights page-to-screen adaptations arriving in April. 

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