Shelf Awareness for Readers, our weekly consumer-facing publication featuring adult and children's book reviews, author interviews, backlist recommendations, and fun news items, is being published today. Starred review highlights include The Ogre's Daughter by Catherine Bardon, a "deft" and "searing" imagining of how a ruthless dictator's daughter might have lived; Tasmania by Paolo Giordano, a study of a journalist working on a book about the atomic bomb; Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin, which considers "the darker sides of human nature" with "narrative boldness."; and Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell, a middle-grade fantasy series about a land of mythical creatures and the children charged with saving the source of its magic. In The Writers' Life, Tony Tulathimutte, recently longlisted for this year's National Book Award, handles rejection with panache and remarks on how his new collection of linked short stories developed from "a kind of centaur" of combined writing forms into what it is today: a svelte work of both humor and seriousness. Plus, rediscover the late Tom Spanbauer, author of The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon.
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