November Library Reads
Harrison Wins Booker Prize
The Booker Prize named The End of Everything, by M. John Harrison (Riverhead/Serpent’s Tail) as the winner on Monday evening at a ceremony in London. “I really didn’t expect to be up here this evening; I honestly didn’t,” the surprised author said. “Prizes like this one…are so important in a landscape of industrialized fiction.” At 81, Harrison becomes the oldest author to win the prize. Booker Prize Foundation chief executive Gaby Wood said in the announcement, “Many past Booker Prize authors have borrowed facets of science fiction in their work, but M. John Harrison is the first Booker winner to have emerged from […]
Obituary: Gary Fisketjon
Gary Fisketjon, 72, longtime editor at Knopf and most recently County Highway, died over the weekend in his home in Salem, Oregon. Fisketjon joined Knopf in the early 1990s and left in 2019 after a controversy involving “a breach of company policy.” Before joining Knopf, Fisketjon was the creator of Vintage Contemporaries. County Highway announced the news online on Sunday, writing, “Gary Fisketjon is dead, and we invite you to mourn with us. He was the greatest editor of American fiction of the past half-century, his fierce editorial eye, remarkable ear and unshakable commitment to the calibration of his own […]
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Distribution: Six to Consortium
Starting January 2, Afterlife Press and Write Bloody will be distributed by Consortium. Consortium will distribute BluPetal on February 1 and Emergence Press on March 1. Loft Publications and Saint Lucy Books will be distributed through Global Book Sales.