Shelf Awareness for Readers, our weekly consumer-facing publication featuring book reviews, author interviews, backlist recommendations, and fun news items, is being published today. Starred review highlights include Miss May Does Not Exist by Carrie Courogen, "a long-overdue biography" of "comic genius" Elaine May; the novel Jackie by Dawn Tripp, which offers "cinematic scenes and thoughtful interior reflections" about the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; and Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America by Sara B. Franklin, which should delight "anyone enamored of publishing's golden age." In The Writer's Life, memoirist and novelist Matt Young considers fractured narrative structures, time as a flat circle, the reverberations of trauma, and the gentle side of being a man after serving in the Marine Corps. Plus, rediscover the work of the late Scottish author John Burnside, who was "one of only four people to have won both of the U.K.'s most prestigious poetry prizes for the same book."
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