The second of four longlists was announced Tuesday morning — with 10 poetry collections from ten different imprints: Metaphysical Dog, by Frank Bidart Bury My Clothes, by Roger Bonair-Agard Stay, Illusion, by Lucie Brock-Broido So Recently Rent a World, New and Selected Poems: 1968-2012, by Andrei Codrescu Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, by Brenda Hillman The Big Smoke, by Adrian Matejka American Amnesiac, by Diane Raptosh Black Aperture, by Matt Rasmussen Transfer of Qualities, by Martha Ronk Incarnadine, by Mary Szybist
Archives for September 2013
People, Etc.
At Little, Brown, Sarah Murphy has been promoted to associate editor and Amanda Lang has been promoted to associate publicist. Carolyn Schwartz joins World Book Night US as director of development, replacing Erin Cox, who went to St. Martin’s as senior marketing manager. Schwartz was vp, director of advertising and promotion at the Random House publishing group. OverDrive has hired Lee Milstein as chief strategy officer, to help expand their digital media businesses into streaming video and education content and services, as well as direct the company’s overall strategy and strategic partnerships. OverDrive is also opening a New York office […]
Former Defense Secretary Gates’s Book to Publish In January
Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’s DUTY: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, has been announced by Knopf for publication January 14, 2014. (It’s the first in a two-book deal announced in 2011.) Gates writes in the introduction that “this is a book about my more than four and a half years at war” but “also about my political war with Congress each day I was in office and the dramatic contrast between my public respect, bipartisanship, and calm, and my private frustration, disgust, and anger. There were also political wars with the White House, staff, and occasionally with the […]
Booker Prize May Allow American Entries In Wednesday Announcement
The Booker Prize is set to announce several rule changes on Wednesday, and now one expected adjustment includes opening the Commonwealth-only prize up to entries from US authors in some form. A weekend story in the Sunday Times reported such a change as fact, citing unnamed organizers as saying they “increasingly believe that excluding writers from America is anachronistic” and that “US writers must be allowed to compete to ensure the award’s global reputation.” Booker literary director Ion Trewin dismissed press reports as “incomplete” but confirmed in a statement “there are going to be some changes to the rules of […]
National Book Awards Young People’s Lit Longlist; Giller Longlist
The National Book Awards began rolling out their inaugural longlists Monday via the Daily Beast, which posted the Young People’s Literature list of 10 candidates. The nominees will be announced next month: The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by K.G. Campbell A Tangle of Knots by Lisa Graff The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan Far Far Away by Tom McNeal Picture Me Gone by Meg Rosoff The Real Boy by Anne […]
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Former Farrar, Straus editor Courtney Hodell will take over as director of the Whiting Writers’ Awards, and Daniel Reid will serve as the foundation’s new executive director, as of November 1. Currently director of strategic planning at the CUNY Institute for Education Policy, Reid takes over from Kellye Rosenheim, who has worked for the Whiting Foundation since 1990. Hodell succeeds Barbara Bristol, who has run the awards for sixteen years. Foundation president Antonia Grumbach said in the announcement of Hodell: “With her distinguished editorial career and extensive work with writers in many genres–including literary fiction, memoir and biography, narrative nonfiction, […]