”+ ”+ ”+ ” ”; ”; The first book is a novel about an art student and a sculpture of a giant robot, aAn Absolutely Remarkable Thing.a Dutton, which also publishes John Green, announced Tuesday the novel is scheduled for next fall. Hank Green said in a statement he hoped the book would help capture the areally weirda historical moment weare living in.

John Greenas aTurtles All the Way Down,a his first novel since the million-selling aThe Fault in Our Stars,a comes out next month.

Jesmyn Ward novel among Kirkus Prize finalists: Jesmyn Wardas ghostly aSing, Unburied, Singa and Mohsin Hamidas acclaimed novel about refugees, aExit West,a were among the finalists Tuesday for the fourth annual Kirkus Prize.

Presented by the trade publication Kirkus Reviews, the prize includes six nominees each in the categories of fiction, nonfiction and young peopleas literature. Winners for each category, to be announced Tuesday, receive $50,000.

Fiction nominees besides Ward and Hamid included the novels aThe Ninth Hour,a by Alice McDermott, and aWhite Tears,a by Hari Kunzru, and a pair of story collections: aWhat It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky,a by Lesley Nneka Arimah, and Carmen Maria Machadoas aHer Body and Other Parties.a

Nonfiction nominees were Jack E. Davisa aThe Gulf,a Patricia Lockwoodas aPriestdaddy,a Edward Dolnickas aThe Seeds of Life,a Valeria Luisellias aTell Me How It Ends,a Michael Twittyas aThe Cooking Genea and Laura Dassow Wallsa aHenry David Thoreau: A Life.a

Judge refuses to move manas trial from aS-Towna: A character from the hit podcast aS-Towna will stand trial on theft and other charges in the rural Alabama county that serves as the setting for the serialized narrative, a judge decided Tuesday.

Bibb County Circuit Judge Donald McMillan, ruling after a brief hearing, refused to move Tyler Goodsonas upcoming trial to an even more rural county.

Defense attorneys J.D.