Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s botched public expression of their current acquisitions policy has reached comic levels. In the latest installment, vp of communications Josef Blumenfeld confirms for the AP our report from an agent earlier today that the children’s trade division is still buying projects. Otto Penzler adds that the freeze was news to him, and says that a “high-level Houghton executive” told him he could continue to acquire for his line of mysteries. “‘Does this mean I can keep buying books?'” he asked. “‘Absolutely,’ I was told.” Blumenfeld tries to persuade the AP that “talk of a freeze had been […]