The Winners of the 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Awards
The winners of the 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Awards are:Book of the Year: The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty
Cookbook Hall of Fame: Betty Fussell
American: The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen by Sean Sherman with Beth Dooley
Baking and Desserts: BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts by Stella Parks
Beverage: Meehan's Bartender Manual by Jim Meehan
General: Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
Health and Special Diets: Deepa's Secrets by Deepa Thomas
International: Nopalito by Gonzalo Guzman and Stacy Adimando
Reference, History, and Scholarship: Champagne by Peter Liem
Restaurant and Professional: Modernist Bread by Nathan Myhrvold and Francisco Migoya
Single Subject: The Pho Cookbook by Andrea Nguyen
Vegetable-Focused Cooking: Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables by Joshua McFadden with Martha Holmberg
Writing: The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty
The Shortlist has Been Announced for the Reading the West Book Awards
The shortlist has been announced for the Reading the West Book Awards, sponsored by the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association. Winners will be named May 31. This year's shortlisted titles are:Adult fiction
The Widow Nash by Jamie HarrisonThe Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill by Jim Fergus
Celine by Peter Heller
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
The Underworld by Kevin Canty
Adult nonfiction
Transplants: Eclectic Floral Design by Antonio BondKillers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Texas Blood: Seven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the Borderlands by Roger D. Hodge
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River by David Owen
Wild Horse Country: The History, Myth, and Future of the Mustang by David Philipps
Postponement of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature
"The Swedish Academy has decided to postpone the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, with the intention of awarding it in 2019. In a statement, Carl-Henrik Heldin, the Nobel Foundation's chairman of the board, said that according to the Swedish Foundations Act, the Nobel Foundation "is ultimately responsible for fulfilling the intentions in the will of Alfred Nobel. During the past several weeks, we have pursued a continuous dialogue with the Swedish Academy, and we support Thursday's decision."
Although the Nobel Prize is, in principle, awarded annually, decisions on the award have been postponed on a number of occasions during its history. "One of the circumstances that may justify an exception is when a situation in a prize-awarding institution arises that is so serious that a prize decision will not be perceived as credible," Heldin noted.
This decision was prompted by a crisis involving accusations of assault by 18 women against French photographer Jean-Claude Arnault, who is married to an Academy member, Katarina Frostenson."
(source: Shelf Awareness)
Annie Proulx has won the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
"Annie Proulx has won the 2018 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, which honors an American literary writer "whose body of work is distinguished not only for its mastery of the art but also for its originality of thought and imagination. The award seeks to commend strong, unique, enduring voices that--throughout long, consistently accomplished careers--have told us something new about the American experience."
The prize ceremony will take place September 1, during the National Book Festival at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
Her books include The Shipping News, Postcards, Barkskins and Close Range: Wyoming Stories, which included the short story later adapted into the Oscar-winning film Brokeback Mountain."
(source: Shelf Awareness)
HBO Has Acquired the Rights to I'll Be Gone In the Dark by Michelle McNamara
HBO Documentary Films has acquired the rights to journalist Michelle McNamara's bestselling book I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, to develop as a docuseries. Deadline reported that McNamara, the late wife of Patton Oswalt, "was in the midst of writing the book when she unexpectedly died in her sleep in 2016. The book was completed by McNamara's lead researcher Paul Haynes and a close colleague, Billy Jensen, and framed by an introduction by Gillian Flynn and afterword by Oswalt, who also executive produces the docuseries."
"HBO taking on this story will advance the passionate pursuit that Michelle shared with dozens of men and women in law enforcement--to solve the mystery of one of California's most notorious serial killers," said Oswalt.
Last month, the Sacramento Sheriff's Office arrested former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo and charged him with a number of the crimes.
(source: Shelf Awareness)
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