Deborah Feldman’s memoir UNORTHODOX, detailing her Satmar Hasidic upbringing and how she eventually broke from it a few years ago, was no stranger to controversy even before its February 14 publication date. Close-knit communities are almost never happy about having their customs aired to a larger public, especially by someone, like Feldman, whose book details many grievances she had with her onetime way of life. Prominent appearances on “The View” and a feature article in the New York Post likely exacerbated matters. But post-publication a number of serious charges have emerged as to whether UNORTHODOX stretched the truth on multiple […]
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Deputy CEO of DK John Duhigg will step up to global CEO of the publisher at the beginning of April, and will join the Penguin Group Board as well. Current ceo Peter Field is preparing to retire from Penguin at the end of the year after a 35-year career at the company. Between April and the year-end, Field “will retain his current responsibilities for Penguin in Australia and New Zealand and take on a range of international projects across the company.” F+W Media will launch Prologue Books, a new imprint devoted to reissuing out-of-print hardboiled and pulp novels originally published between […]