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Literairyland: April 16-22, 2024
This week's hot 🔥 new books, writer birthdays, and more.
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This Week’s Hot 🔥 New Fiction
Mystery & Thriller
One of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole
Logline: From the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author of When No One Is Watching comes a riveting thriller about the new caretaker of a historic estate who finds herself trapped on an island with a murderer--and the ghosts of her past.
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Reviews:
Kirkus
What Cannot Be Said by C.S. Harris
Logline: A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen years earlier in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Who Cries for the Lost.
Publisher: Berkley Books
Horror
Indian Burial Ground by Nick Medina
Logline: A man lunges in front of a car. An elderly woman silently drowns herself. A corpse sits up in its coffin and speaks. On this reservation, not all is what it seems, in this new spine-chilling mythological horror from the author of Sisters of the Lost Nation.
Publisher: Berkley Books
Science Fiction
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
Logline: Celebrated author Sofia Samatar presents a mystical, revolutionary space adventure for the exhausted dreamer in this brilliant science fiction novella tackling the carceral state and violence embedded in the ivory tower while embodying the legacy of Ursula K. Le Guin.
Publisher: Tor.com
Historical Fiction
The Beautiful People by Michelle Gable
Amazon | Bookshop
Logline: Set against the glamorous 1960s Jet Set, a novel about a failed debutante whose new job as assistant to society photographer Slim Aarons takes her into Palm Beach's inner circle, and into a beguiling friendship with the star at its center, fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer.
Publisher: Graydon House
Reviews:
Red Carpet Crash
The Forgetters by Greg Sarris
Amazon | Bookshop
Logline: A tender, astonishing, and richly beautiful story cycle about remembering our shared histories and repairing the world.
Publisher: Heyday Books
Reviews:
Literary Hub (author interview)
Literary
Thorn Tree by Max Ludington
Logline: A beautifully wrought novel on the aftershocks of the heady but dangerous late 1960s and the relationship between trauma and the creative impulse
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
Honey by Victor Lotado
Logline: Meet a woman as tenacious as Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge and as irresistible as Andrew Sean Greer's Arthur Less: Honey Fasinga, the glamorous daughter of a notorious New Jersey mobster, is returning home at last, ready to reckon with her violent past.
Publisher: Harper
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
This Week’s Hot 🔥 New Nonfiction
Memoir
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
Logline: From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring--and surviving--an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him.
Publisher: Random House
Reviews:
The Literature Today
Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder's Lens by José Vadi
Logline: A memoir-in-essays about how skateboarding re-defines space, curates culture, confronts mortality, and affords new perspectives on and off the board.
Publisher: Soft Skull
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
Biography
The Secret Mind of Bertha Pappenheim: The Woman Who Invented Freud's Talking Cure by Gabriel Brownstein
Logline: The story of a patient who changed the world, and the mystery of her illness.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
The Fixer: Moguls, Mobsters, Movie Stars, and Marilyn by Josh Young and Manfred Westphal
Logline: A riveting tell-all biography that delves into the extraordinary life of Hollywood's most infamous private detective and "fixer" to the stars, revealing newly discovered shocking revelations from his never-before-seen investigative files.
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
History
Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever by Rachel Lance
Logline: For readers of The Making of the Atomic Bomb and Code Girls, who want stories about the tech behind military successes and the maverick groups that generate historic innovations.
Publisher: Dutton
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
BookAnon
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Logline: An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon in the last years of his life.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Science
Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science by Erin Zimmerman
Logline: An exploration of science, motherhood, and academia, and a stirring account of a woman at a personal and professional crossroads . . .
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Reviews:
Publishers Weekly
Watershed Notes
Grief
Other People's Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End by Lissa Soep
Logline: What if the great love of your life is friendship?
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Reviews:
Kirkus
Bookish Trivia 🤔
Under what pen name did Charlotte Brontë, whose birthday is Sunday, first publish Jane Eyre? |
This Week’s Literary Birthdays & Events
April 16
Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook published (1962)
Margot Adler
Polly Adler
Kingsley Amis
John Davies
Sarah Kirsch
Dorothy P. Lathrop
John Christopher
Tracy K. Smith
April 17
George Adamski
Hervé Bazin
Clare Francis
Robert Dean Frisbie
Nick Hornby
Cynthia Ozick
Henry Vaughan
Thornton Wilder
April 18
Kathy Acker
Richard Bausch
Robert Bausch
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
Joy Davidman
Richard Harding Davis
Keith DeCandido
Niall Ferguson
C. Dale Young
April 19
Louis Amédée Achard
Richard Hughes
Steven H. Silver
April 20
Edgar Allan Poe publishes "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the first detective story (1841)
Peter S. Beagle
Dinah Craik
Sebastian Faulks
Henry de Montherlant
Arto Paasilinna
Daniel Varoujan
Vladimir Vidrić
April 21
Charlotte Brontë
Gerald Early
Hilda Hilst
Alistair MacLean
John Muir
Murathan Mungan
Jeannette Walls
April 22
Janet Evanovich
Louise Glück
Vladimir Nabokov
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