Corinna Barsan will join Grove/Atlantic as senior editor on December 5, where she will acquire and edit literary fiction as well as some narrative nonfiction. Previously she was senior editor at Other Press. Also at Grove, Amy Hundley has been promoted to senior editor and rights director. The UK joint venture Abrams & Chronicle Books has promoted David Gooding to managing director. He has been acting managing director since this summer, prior to which he was international sales director. British Columbia bookseller Lee Trentadue, who was due to step up from vice president to president of the Canadian Booksellers Association, […]
Archives for November 2011
NYT Book Review and Critics’ Picks, and Early Leaders for The Best of 2011
The NYT Book Review has posted their top 10 books of the year, along with top 10 lists from the newspaper’s three book critics. As usual, there’s a very small amount of overlap between Kakutani and Maslin’s favorite books and TBR’s Top 10. For the third straight year, Dwight Garner’s nonfiction choices have no intersection at all with the TBR’s favorites.) Book Review Top 10: Fiction THE ART OF FIELDING, by Chad Harbach (MK) TEN THOUSAND SAINTS, by Eleanor Henderson 11/22/63, by STEPHEN KING THE TIGER’S WIFE, by Téa Obreht (MK) SWAMPLANDIA!, by Karen Russell (JM) Fiction ARGUABLY, by Christopher […]
Godin’s Domino Project Wraps Up
Just about a year after it was first announced, Seth Godin’s The Domino Project is issuing its twelfth and final book. Except for “a digital bonus coming soon,” that is. He writes, “By most of the measures I set out at the beginning, the project has been a success. So why stop? Mostly because it was a project, not a lifelong commitment to being a publisher of books. Projects are fun to start, but part of the deal is that they don’t last forever.” Godin explains on his blog nine of his “takeaways” from the venture. Among the things that […]
S&S Releases eBook Edition of Fahrenheit 451
Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury has finally overcome his longstanding aversion to digital books and authorized an ebook edition of his most famous novel, FAHRENHEIT 451, which Simon & Schuster released Tuesday. The ebook deal comes as part of a new publishing agreement brokered by Bradbury’s agent Michael Congdon with S&S that includes all English-language print and digital formats of FAHRENHEIT 451 in North America, and also includes English-language mass-market rights in North America to Bradbury’s THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES and THE ILLUSTRATED MAN, both of which will be reissued in March. The ebook edition of FAHRENHEIT, originally published in 1953, […]
Bookselling: Stores Closing in NJ, MA, and More
Metuchen, NJ-based new and used bookstore The Raconteur will close on January 31 after 7 years in business. “I still love being here and meeting the people,” owner Alex Dawson told the NYT. “But I feel like I don’t want to be a shop clerk anymore. That’s what it boils down to.” Cherry Picked Books in Easthampton, MA will also be closing at the end of January. Owner Michael Engel bought the store in 2007 and had been been “half-heartedly” looking for a buyer over the last several months. “Nobody wants to buy a used bookstore,” Engel told Masslive.com. “It’s […]
People, Etc.
Executive editor of features for Library Journal Rebecca T. Miller will become editor-in-chief of School Library Journal as of December 15, filling the slot vacated by Brian Kenney in October. Miller has been at LJ since 1998. Priscilla McGeehon has joined Westview Press as editorial director and executive editor, history and area studies. She will develop and execute the strategic vision for the Westview editorial team and direct the entire editorial staff, and will launch a new history list for the press. She was most recently executive editor for history at CQ Press/SAGE. On Demand Books has hired Karina Makhli as director […]