Tochi Onyebuchi’s
Riot Baby has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work for Fiction.
The NAACP Image Awards were first presented in 1967, and were founded to honor outstanding performances in film, television, music, and literature. This year, the nominees for Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction are:
Black Bottom Saints by Alice Randall (HarperCollins Publishers)
Lakewood by Megan Giddings (HarperCollins Publishers)
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi (TorDotCom Publishing)
The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley (Grove Atlantic)
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Riverhead Books)
Tochi Onyebuchi’s
Riot Baby is perhaps best described in a review from Alex Brown which begins by telling readers:
Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
“Thanks to Tim Harford’s characteristic wit and magnetic storytelling, you may not realize you’re getting an advanced course in how to understand the kinds of statistics we’re all faced with every day.”
–DAVID EPSTEIN, author of Range
PBS, Nutopia team on premium four-part limited series “Extra Life” American pubcaster PBS has partnered with Jane Root‘s London- and Washington, DC-based factual outfit Nutopia on a four-part series exploring the life-extending role of science, medicine and public health.
Extra Life: . February 2, 2021
American pubcaster PBS has partnered with Jane Root‘s London- and Washington, DC-based factual outfit Nutopia on a four-part series exploring the life-extending role of science, medicine and public health.
Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer will examine the science and medical innovations that have doubled life expectancies by defeating some of the world’s deadliest diseases, including smallpox, cholera, the Spanish flu and others.
Written as a mirror to Dante’s Inferno
, These Nameless Things is an atmospheric story about what it’s like to live under the weight of personal guilt. The main character, Dan, finds himself among a motley crew of escapees from a mountain they associate with horror and torture. Though he no longer suffers at the hands of his captors, Dan hasn’t found peace, since he’s vaguely aware that he’s guilty of crimes he can’t quite remember. The story, though dystopian in flavor, is ultimately deeply hopeful and reminds us of the beauty of forgiveness.
Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Books)
Riverhead: 496 pages, $28
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Let’s get this out of the way: “My Year Abroad” is not Chang-rae Lee’s best novel. Not even his second best. But can we agree that even Lee’s worst novel would be better than most authors’ best efforts?
The Korean American author, whose first novel, “Native Speaker,” was nominated for a National Book Award and his third novel, “The Surrendered,” for a Pulitzer Prize, long ago established his bona fides as a writer whose attention to identity and perspective place him far above his peers. “On Such a Full Sea,” in 2014, showed that Lee also was capable of crafting superb dystopian fiction. His setting in that case was a near-future version of Baltimore known as “B-Mor,” a labor colony of fisherfolk.