Hachette Book Group’s svp, director of marketing strategy Heather Fain is leaving on November 30 after 20 years with the company to become chief marketing officer at Pushkin Industries, the podcast company launched by Jacob Weisberg and Malcolm Gladwell. CEO Michael Pietsch notes in part, “She has been a great colleague, a mentor, and a…
A Leading Agent Takes Center Stage with Hello Sunshine + Together Live
William Morris Endeavor’s head of Worldwide Literary, Lectures, and Conferences, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, has another lesser-known, yet in some respects, higher-profile, role. She is the co-founder, along with client and author Glennon Doyle, of Together Live, an annual big-venue touring storytelling event/would-be movement that recently began its third year. Walsh is also its chief curator,…
National Book Awards: Nunez Wins Fiction Prize, Along with Stewart, Tawada, Reed, and More
At the National Book Awards on Wednesday evening, the fiction prize went to Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend (Riverhead). Nunez spoke only briefly in accepting the award, quoting Alan Bennett: “For a writer, nothing is ever quite as bad as it is for other people, because, however dreadful, it may be of use.” Nunez also noted that “writing books made the miraculous possible: to be removed from the world and to…
The Washington Post’s Top 10 Books
The Washington Post named their top books of the year. (In case you’re wondering, over the past three years an average of four books from their top 10 wind up making our authoritative, aggregated Very Best of the Best Books of the Year list.) This year’s picks: Nonfiction Good and Mad, By Rebecca Traister The…
Briefs
Once again, you can view a live webcast of tonight’s National Book Awards starting at 7:20 PM. The Washington Post started rolling out its best books of the year package, including their lists of 50 notable fiction and nonfiction titles. Which means their top 10 should drop soon, too. Caroline Abbey has been promoted to editorial director…
Corporate: Trustbridge Buys Peachtree; Pearson Sells Property
Trustbridge Global Media, an affiliate of Shanghai-based private equity and venture capital firm Trustbridge Partners, bought children’s publisher Peachtree Publishers in a deal that closed November 7. The company will now be called Peachtree Publishing Company. Based in Atlanta, the publisher has operated since 1977, and maintains a backlist of adult titles in addition to children’s books….