News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff
Book News
- ‘It Just Felt Very Wrong’: Sherman Alexie’s Accusers Go On The Record (NPR) In a follow-up report, Alexie has declined the Carnegie medal for nonfiction. (NPR) It will not be awarded this year.
- BookExpo Announces Editors’ Buzz Picks (Publishers Weekly)
- Amid Harassment Allegations, [David] Handler Cancels Commencement Speech (Shelf Awareness) Handler is better known by his pen name, Lemony Snicket.
- The 2017 Bram Stoker Award winners were announced at the most recent StokerCon. (Tor.com) The award honors the best in horror and dark fantasy.
Worth Reading/Viewing
- Up in smoke: should an author’s dying wishes be obeyed? (Blake Morrison,
The Guardian) - Your Hour Upon the Stage: Sooner or Later, Shakespeare Will Describe Your Life (Tessa Gratton, author of The Queens of Innis Leer, on Tor.com)
- Why do Writers Keep Multiple Copies of Books Around? (Literary Hub) For “writers” you could probably substitute “readers,” since clearly these writers are both.
- Climbing Mount Tsundoku: On Acquiring More Books Than It’s Possible to Read (James Davis Nicoll, Tor.com) I suspect a lot of us can relate.
- ‘Women are having different fantasies’: romantic fiction in the age of Trump (The Guardian)
- How Could I Forget the Liberating Weirdness of Madeleine L’Engle? (Leah Schnelbach, Tor.com)
- Can Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time Possibly Live Up to the Book? captures much of my own anticipation and worry about the adaptation. (Marie Ness, Tor.com)
- Recommending Books Across Generations (James Wallace Harris, Book Riot)
- Sleeps With Monsters: Where Are the SFF Stories About Pregnancy and Child-rearing? (Liz Bourke, Tor.com)
- Why Reading Multicultural Literature Is Important (Alysia Stevenson, Book Riot)
Upcoming Books, Movies, & TV
- Exclusive: Tahereh Mafi on her next book, ‘A Very Large Expanse of Sea,’ about a Muslim American teen after 9/11 (interview, LA Times)
- Patrick Rothfuss Calls The Kingkiller Chronicle a “Prologue,” Implying More Temerant Novels (Tor.com) Yay… I think. But could he please finish book 3 first? (I know he’s working on it, and I’m being patient. Really.)
- Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy coming to TV (Stubby the Rocket, Tor.com) The 8-part miniseries will star Dafne Keen (Logan) as Lyra and feature Lin-Manuel Miranda as cowboy Lee Scoresby. Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) will direct the series, which is produced by Bad Wolf (the same team behind the adaptation of A Discovery of Witches.)
Awesome Lists
- 50 Motivating Quotes About Books and Reading (Ebook Friendly)
- All the New Fantasy Books Coming Out in March (Tor.com)
- Six Outstanding Standalone Fantasy Novels (Tor.com)
- All the New Science Fiction Books Coming Out in March (Tor.com)
Just for Fun Interest
- A Firefighter’s Guide to Fighting Dragons (Sean Grigsby, Tor.com)
Nicole
I saw “A Wrinkle in Time” over the weekend, and I think it’s safe for lovers of the book to watch. (It’s one of my favorite books of all time.) They dumb down the science a bit (okay, a lot) and IT isn’t portrayed as a giant brain, but I think they did a good job retaining the bones of the story and fleshing it out with visuals a modern audience can accept. It is not the book. But it is good. (And the child actors — all three of them, since Sandy and Dennys are sadly not in the film — do a very good job of portraying their characters.)
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Lark_Bookwyrm
Oh, that’s good to know! Robin saw it over the weekend, too, and liked it very much. They concur that there are changes from the book (and they left out Aunt Beast! 🙁 ), but still thought I would enjoy it. A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door were two of my favorite books growing up.