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The Winner of the First ‍James Patterson & Bookshop.org Prize Is One of Last Year’s Buzziest Titles

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Inaugural James Patterson & Bookshop.org Prize I’m always excited to see what Bookshop.org does next, and I have to say that their latest announcement is pretty dope. They’ve partnered with James Patterson to honor full-length debut books published in the U.S. within the last year with the ‍James Patterson & Bookshop.org Prize. The award stays true to Bookshop.org’s ethos by relying on booksellers for all nominations and selections. The first winner of the award—The Correspondent by Virginia Evans—is an epistolary novel that really made the rounds last year. The runner-up for the prize is Milo Todd’s trans WWII novel, The Lilac People. PEN America Finds That Literary Translators Are Underpaid No wonder only about 3% of books published in the US are translated works. In a new report, PEN America highlights the unfairness literary translators experience within …

The Year’s Buzziest Memoir Gets a High-Profile Adaptation

Published by José Betancourt

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Finalists for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction The shortlist for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction, which “celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in narrative non-fiction written by women,” has been revealed. Six titles remain in the running: The winner will be announced June 11 and will receive a prize of £30,000. Today In Books Sign up to Today In Books to receive daily news and miscellany from the world of books. Subscribe to Selected No Thanks Gloria Steinem Announces New Memoir Out This Fall On the occasion of her 92nd birthday, feminist legend Gloria Steinem has announced a new memoir due out this fall. An Unexpected Life, which explores the experiences that inspired Steinem’s activism and transmits her message to the next generation, will hit shelves September 22 from Random House. The core of that message? As …

5 of the Buzziest Books by BIPOC Authors to Read This Month

Published by José Betancourt

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. As we head into the month of spring, I figure we’re about due for some sunshine. You can, like me, take yours in the form of this PBS interview with Mychal Threets, the librarian who went viral and who is now the new host of Reading Rainbow. Also make sure to check out Black horror novels coming out in 2026. And, if you like to keep up with the Book Joneses, so to speak, the most anticipated books by BIPOC authors—which were listed by everyone from Esquire to Roxane Gay’s book club to us—include a new book by Tayari Jones, a literary mystery that deals with trauma, a death-obsessed coming-of-age tale, and more. Kin by Tayari Jones From the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage comes a tale of sisterhood, mothers, and daughters in the American South. Vernice and Anne are two motherless girls who grow up as best friends in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, but whose lives are set on …

L.A.’s buzziest coffee shop is in a gorgeous Angelino Heights home. Is this the start of a bigger trend?

Published by Sam Flores

It’s 10:54 a.m. Thursday at Granada coffee shop in Angelino Heights, on one of those 73-degree winter mornings in Los Angeles when the sky glows its sunniest cobalt-blue through bare branches. An 11-person-deep line stretches just past the open door. I’m sitting on an L-shaped couch with sturdy burgundy upholstery, taking in the scene while waiting for a cortado. The room beams casual charm — plants, light woods, abstract prints on the wall to add color, a communal table and a toddler-size rocking chair among a couple Eames-style loungers — and couldn’t hold many more people. Three women, all with babies in their arms, find seats at a second common table in the backyard garden, joining others who’ve disappeared into laptop-headphones concentration mode. A guy with a complicated-looking video camera pans the crowd while maneuvering around the furniture. He’s in media, too, and we’re here for the same reason. What makes this coffee destination unique Sydney Wayser and her husband, Isaac Watters, opened Granada in early January. They run it out of the ground-floor section …

Physical Intelligence, Stripe veteran Lachy Groom’s latest bet, is building Silicon Valley’s buzziest robot brains

Published by skeptic

From the street, the only indication I’ve found Physical Intelligence’s headquarters in San Francisco is a pi symbol that’s a slightly different color than the rest of the door. When I walk in, I’m immediately confronted with activity. There’s no reception desk, no gleaming logo in fluorescent lights. Inside, the space is a giant concrete box made slightly less austere by a haphazard sprawl of long blonde-wood tables. Some are clearly meant for lunch, dotted with Girl Scout cookie boxes, jars of Vegemite (someone here is Australian), and small wire baskets stuffed with one too many condiments. The rest of the tables tell a different story entirely. Many more of them are laden with monitors, spare robotics parts, tangles of black wire, and fully assembled robotic arms in various states of attempting to master the mundane. During my visit, one arm is folding a pair of black pants, or trying to. It’s not going well. Another is attempting to turn a shirt inside out with the kind of determination that suggests it will eventually succeed, …

The Buzziest Books in Libraries This Month

Published by Jenni Sidey

Vigil by George Saunders Jill Blaine has ushered three hundred and forty-three souls to the afterlife, but none of her charges have been like oil company CEO K.J. Boone, who is on his deathbed with zero regrets for how he’s lived his life. But his final hours are filled with people and animals (both real and otherworldly), all looking for answers and a reckoning from a man who has lived a large and complicated life. This novel takes on greed, capitalism, absolution, and the consequences of progress. Featured in The Guardian, The New York Times Source link

Gap’s Buzziest Menswear Debut in Decades Is Already Selling Out

Published by skeptic

Even when Gap was a humble denim specialist with a lone San Francisco outpost, the retailer knew how to bridge the divide between the clothes people wanted to wear and the clothes they could afford. That’s still blessedly true. As of this week, though, its biggest upmarket push in decades has arrived: GapStudio, a line of artful basics designed by Zac Posen, the buzzy fashion industry darling and the company’s new-ish EVP and creative director. We say “new-ish” because Posen has been installed at Gap for close to two years now—though this marks the first time his remit has included a full-blown menswear collection. Prior to now, Posen’s bespoke GapStudio men’s pieces had appeared on red-carpet luminaries like Timotheé Chalamet but were woefully hard to find on the shelves. No longer. Fittingly, GapStudio’s inaugural menswear collection iterates on Posen’s specific brand of retro glamor, from lustrous satin tailoring to flared corduroy pants with a distinctly Boogie Nights energy. Slinky wide-neck tees, styled under a razor-sharp double-breasted blazer or a pavement-skipping camel topcoat, recall the best …

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