Citizen Reading: 24 July 2017.
24 July 2017
A weekly selection of reading and book news, sometimes with completely inappropriate commentary.
Libraries provide teens with important life skills.
GoodReads is adding WorldCat to its book records.
Why do so many indie presses fail?
The story behind the newly discovered Maurice Sendak manuscript.
Alan Moore is planning a big send-off for his League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic.
A bookseller on his complicated relationship with J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy.
Two new Harry Potter books are set for publication this October.
A posthumous collection of short stories from mystery master P.D. James is expected this fall.
Persuasion: Jane Austen's "kung fu novel"? (Also: Jane Austen is now on the ten-pound note.)
Next from novelist Junot Diaz: a picture book.
Sherman Alexie cancels his current book tour, citing his struggles with depression.
Jason Segel is not only an actor, he's a YA Sci-Fi writer.
2017 ITW Thriller Awards: Winners.
2017 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize: Longlist.
Outlander, season three: Trailer.
Amazon is now adapting Agatha Christie books too.
My Friend Dahmer graphic novel: now a movie.
NONFICTION BOOK NEWS
I don't know that I will get this new history of the showdown between President Truman and General MacArthur read, but WOW, this is a hell of a review of it by Andrew Bacevich. (Full disclosure: I love Andrew Bacevich. I love him because he writes things like this: "The result is a nation that today finds itself more or less permanently at war. At no time during the sixty-plus years since MacArthur’s downfall have existing civil-military arrangements worked as advertised. That is to say, never has the interaction of military and civilian leaders, conducted in an atmosphere of honesty and mutual respect, privileging the national interest rather than personal ambition and institutional agendas, yielded consistently enlightened policies.")
A new book is predicting Putin's downfall.
Comedian Kevin Hart: has a new memoir out.
A new science book about the "history of our atmosphere." (And it's been called funny! Love my science with a bit of funny.)
James Comey is shopping a book proposal.
New York Times: On American radicals; Joe Biden's new book is due out in November; how Steve Bannon and Donald Trump got into the White House; oh, my, I'm just so sad that it happens, but I am not up for a new memoir on what it was like to endure incest; two testimonials to the Syrian refugee crisis; on the birth of the modern Middle East; on human equality; a new biography of singer Sarah Vaughan; a new book about "affluence without abundance."
One of my favorite essayists, Meghan Daum, reviews three books on marriage.
BOOK LISTS
IndieBound: Bestselling books the week of July 18.
10 contemporary novels for fans of Jane Austen.
School Library Journal: 10 graphic novels that are not quite of this world.
Paste magazine: Best new YA books of July.
The Telegraph: 28 best books for your summer holiday.
AND NOW, YOUR OBLIGATORY NEIL GAIMAN LINK
You too can enter for a chance to win merchandise from Neil Gaiman's American Gods TV show...ends Tuesday!