Michael Schaub

Georgetown, Texas

Writer and Critic at Freelance

Book critic (@nprbooks, etc.), @KirkusReviews contributing writer, @bookcritics vice president, nervous, sleepy. He/him. [email protected].

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Articles

Lindsay Lohan To Star in ‘Count My Lies’ Series

6 days ago | kirkusreviews.com | Michael Schaub

Lindsay Lohan will star in a Hulu series adaptation of Sophie Stava’s Count My Lies, Deadline reports. Stava’s thriller, published last month by Gallery Books, follows Sloane Caraway, a compulsive liar who becomes a nanny for a wealthy couple, Jay and Violet Lockhart, after falsely claiming to be a nurse. A critic for Kirkus praised the book as “a page-turning thrill ride of a story from a debut novelist.”Stava announced news of the series on Instagram, writing, “I’m freaking out.
New Book by Dolly Parton Coming This Fall

6 days ago | kirkusreviews.com | Michael Schaub

Dolly Parton will tell the story of her life as a performer in a new book, People magazine reports. Ten Speed will publish the country music legend’s Star of the Show: My Life on Stage, co-written with Tom Roland, in the fall.
Winners of the Publishing Triangle Awards Revealed

6 days ago | kirkusreviews.com | Michael Schaub

The Publishing Triangle announced the winners of its awards, given annually to outstanding works of LGBTQ+ literature. Jiaming Tang’s Cinema Love won two prizes: the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.
McSweeney’s Reveals Winner of Short Fiction Prize

1 week ago | kirkusreviews.com | Michael Schaub

Akhim Alexis has won McSweeney’s 2025 Stephen Dixon Award for Short Fiction, the publisher announced in a news release. Alexis won the prize for his short story “My Son’s Name is Not Cassava,” which the press will publish in November in McSweeney’s Quarterly 80. The issue will also feature stories from the two runners-up: “Composure” by Colin Heasley and “Ashes” by Olga Lexell.
PEN World Voices Festival Reveals Author Lineup

1 week ago | kirkusreviews.com | Michael Schaub

The PEN World Voices Festival unveiled the lineup for its 2025 event, with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jennifer Egan, and Jodi Picoult among the authors scheduled to appear in New York and Los Angeles this spring. This year’s festival will take place from April 30 to May 3.
Memoir by Priscilla Presley Coming This Fall

1 week ago | kirkusreviews.com | Michael Schaub

Priscilla Beaulieu Presley will tell the story of life after her divorce from singer Elvis Presley in a new memoir. Grand Central will publish the actor’s Softly, as I Leave You: Life After Elvis, co-written with Mary Jane Ross, in the fall, the press announced in a news release. The title of the book shares its name with an Italian song that Elvis Presley memorably performed live in Las Vegas. Priscilla Beaulieu Presley first met Elvis in West Germany when she was 14 and he was 24.
Sam Keen Dies at 93

1 week ago | kirkusreviews.com | Michael Schaub

Sam Keen, the author and philosopher whose book Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man was a touchstone of the “men’s movement” of the early 1990s, died at 93, the New York Times reports. Keen, a native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was raised in Tennessee and Delaware and educated at Ursinus College, Harvard Divinity School, and Princeton University.
Essay Collection by Zosia Mamet Coming This Fall

1 week ago | kirkusreviews.com | Michael Schaub

Zosia Mamet will reflect on her life in the entertainment industry in a new essay collection, People magazine reports. Viking Books will publish the actor’s Does This Make Me Funny? in the fall.
Tess Monaghan Mysteries Will Be Adapted for TV

1 week ago | kirkusreviews.com | Michael Schaub

Laura Lippman’s Tess Monaghan series of crime novels is getting a television adaptation, Deadline reports. Lippman first introduced readers to Monaghan, a Baltimore woman who became a private investigator after her career as a journalist stalled, in the 1997 novel Baltimore Blues. She has since written 11 more books featuring the character, most recently Hush, Hush, published in 2015.
Report: Daniel Kahneman Died by Assisted Suicide

1 week ago | kirkusreviews.com | Michael Schaub

The Nobel Prize–winning author and psychologist Daniel Kahneman’s death last year was the result of an assisted suicide, the Wall Street Journal reports. Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland, and has been since 1941. Notable people who have ended their lives in the country include opera conductor Edward Downes and filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard.