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| | | December 11, 2017 |  Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Lecture To Be Published Barbara Hoffert - @barbarahoffert On December 7, Kazuo Ishiguro delivered the 2017 Nobel Lecture in Literature while in Stockholm accepting the Nobel Prize. On December 12, Knopf will publish his lecture, titled My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs (64p. ISBN 9780525654957. $16.95; ebk. ISBN 9780525654964). In the lecture he says, “So here I am, a man in my sixties, rubbing my eyes and trying to discern the outlines, out there in the mist, to this world I didn’t suspect even existed until yesterday. Can I, a tired author, from an intellectually tired generation, now find the energy to look at this unfamiliar place?” The answer is a resounding yes and encouragement for us all. |
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|  From Horowitz to Homes | Barbara’s Fiction Picks It's exciting to have authors from Jim Crace to Stephen King publishing this March, not to mention President Bill Clinton's fiction debut, with James Patterson in tow. Look especially for four big short story collections, including Lauren Groff’s Florida, A.M. Homes’s Days of Awe, Lydia Millet’s Fight No More, and Joseph O’Neill’s Good Trouble. |
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| |  Assad to Cyberwarfare to Uncomfortable Conversations | Barbara’s Nonfiction Picks Sober reading charts the impact of technology on advertising and marketing, the murderous intentions of Assad, the dangers of fracking, and more. Memoir, too, takes us deep, ranging from Abdi Nor Iftin's Call Me American to Zachary R. Wood's Uncensored: My Life and Uncomfortable Conversations at the Intersection of Black and White America. |
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|  Start of the Summer Chills | Thriller Previews The thriller genre seems to be getting bigger and bigger, with the list this month no exception. Psychological thrillers, such as B.A Paris's Bring Me Back, and supernatural forays like Mike Carey's The Naming of the Beast make a good showing here, reflecting where the genre is today. |
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| Top World Fiction for Winter- Ivana Bodrozic, The Hotel Tito
- Najla Jraissaty Khoury, Pearls on a Branch
- Merle Kröger, Collision
- Hanne Ørstavik, Love
- Leila Slimani, The Perfect Nanny
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|  Mostly Domestic, but Not Bliss | Mystery Previews Fun reading from Nancy Atherton's Aunt Dimity and the King’s Ransom to Martin Walker's A Taste for Vengeance: A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel, with Leonard Goldberg's A Study in Treason: A Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mystery and Laurie R. King's Island of the Mad: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes adding a Conan Doyle touch. |
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|  Literary Glitter | Fiction Previews From new stars in the literary firmament, Gaël Faye's Small Country, James A. McLaughlin's Bearskin, Joe Mungo's We Begin Our Ascent, and Peng Shepherd's The Book of M, plus work from Akil Kumarasamy and Lillian Li, who both claim honors from the University of Michigan's prestigious creative writing program. |
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|  Historical/Pop/Fantasy/Women’s | Fiction Previews Pop fiction takes us from Tatjani's Soli's visit to the American West in The Removes to the discovery of a family secret in a vineyard's cellar in Ann Mah's The Lost Vintage to a near-future magical world-on-the-rez in Rebecca Roanhorse's Trail of Lighting to trouble in sunny Nantucket in Elin Hilderbrand's The Perfect Couple. |
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| | Looking at the past through history, biography, and even law, with titles ranging from Graham Robb's The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England to James A. Warren's God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians Against the Puritans of New England to Margalit Fox's Conan Doyle for the Defense: A Sensational British Murder, the Quest for Justice, and the World’s Greatest Detective Writer. |
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