A year ago we experimented with extending our Publishers Lunch Buzz Books sampler of meaty pre-publication excerpts of notable new books to Winter Institute (also letting us cover the spring/summer publishing season) — and an amazing 16 of those 28 books wound up as “best of the month” picks on the major bookseller lists. That “class” included some of the most honored books (such as Philipp Meyer’s The Son; Anthony Marra’s A Constellation of Vital Phemonena; Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life; and many others). Now, along with the official opening of Digital Book World (with the ABA’s Winter Institute set […]