Jan Girando, Vice President of Andrews McMeel’s Product Development Group, will retire as of April 30. She had been with the company since 1988. Book critic Gail Caldwell and books & publishing reporter David Mehegan are among 24 Boston Globe staffers who took a buyout from the paper this week. Boston Herald “The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais,” by Philip M. Parker won the Diagram Prize, awarded Friday by The Bookseller.
