Rebecca Gradinger has left Janklow & Nesbit Associates and launched Finchley Road Literary, a boutique agency specializing in literary fiction, up-market commercial fiction, narrative non-fiction, memoir, humor and pop culture. (She has also worked as a scout at Mary Anne Thompson Associates and a lawyer practicing media and intellectual property law at Frankfurt Garbus Kurnit Klein & Selz). Kevin Howell has been named associate marketing manager for Tarcher/Penguin, reporting to Brianna Yashimita. He was previously bookselling and audiobook review editor at Publishers Weekly. Shelf Awareness reports on Saturday’s memorial service for Baker & Taylor senior VP of merchandising Jean Smercz, […]