With Memorial Day on the way, a number of publications have compiled summer reading lists of forthcoming or recently released books. You can start reading several of the titles right now in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer sampler (titles that appear in the collection are marked with asterisks). The Washington Post Book’s “39 Books We’re Talking…
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Carole DeSanti will leave Viking, where she is vp, executive editor, on June 1 after more than 30 years with the company “achieving a singular mixture of critical and commercial success and modeling the importance of the fierce editorial advocacy she offered all of her authors,” according to Viking publisher Andrea Schulz. She added in…
Buzz Books Fall/Winter Preview: Nonfiction
Our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter sampler is full of excerpts from great forthcoming nonfiction by novelist and law professor Stephen Carter, Stephanie Land’s memoir Maid, and more. Also watch out for Michelle Obama’s memoir, essays by Glory Edim and Wesley Yang, plus books by Bernie Sanders, Rebecca Traister, Susan Orleans, and others. Did you download your copy…
People, Etc.: Leaver Resigns from Quarto, and More
Following the surprise annual meeting vote restoring co-founder Laurence Orbach as executive chairman of the Quarto board, company ceo Marcus Leaver has resigned his position. Chuk Kin Lau, who owns a 27-percent stake in the company and also joined the board in the recent will serve as interim ceo. Leaver said in the announcement: “I would like…
Briefs: Tokarczuk Wins The Booker International, and More
Awards Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft, won the Booker International Prize. (Riverhead is scheduled to publish in the US on August 24.) Initiatives Hachette Book Group has launched an online community for mystery and thriller fans, Novel Suspects. “The centerpiece will be the very best books in the genre–from HBG as well as…
Buzz Books Fall/Winter Young Adult Preview
To help you sift through the many thousands of planned fall and winter titles, we’ve selected what we think are among the most noteworthy young adult titles, divided into fiction and nonfiction. You can sample many of the highlighted titles right now in Buzz Books 2018: Young Adult Fall/Winter; they are noted with an asterisk. (The…