The Windham Campbell Prizes were announced, with winners including Stanley Crouch, Helen Garner, and Hilton Als (nonfiction); Tessa Hadley, C.E. Morgan, and Jerry Pinto (fiction); and Abbie Spallen, Hannah Moscovitch, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (drama). The winners will receive their $150,000 prizes at an awards ceremony held at Yale University on September 28. PEN America also announced a number of award winners in several categories, most notably Toni Morrison receiving the Saul Bellow Prize for lifetime achievement and Lisa Ko winning the Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction — with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins winning here, too, as an emerging American playwright. More winners, […]
Archives for March 2016
People, Etc.
Edward Benitez has joined HarperCollins’ Spanish language publishing program as senior acquisitions editor for Harper Espan͂ol, Grupo Nelson and Editorial Vida, reporting to Larry Downs and working out of the company’s offices in Nashville. Most recently, Benitez served as the director for US Spanish language sales for Penguin Random House. Richard Callison has been appointed director, international online & digital sales, Penguin Random House international sales and marketing. He previously was an associate publisher at Random House. Jade Yeung has joined little bee books as production coordinator. Previously she was a production associate at Norton. Courtney Miller-Callihan has opened her own […]
March Picks
Amazon‘s best books of March include Elizabeth Poliner’s As Close to Us as Breathing as their spotlight pick, and Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s The Nest (which you can sample now in our new edition of Buzz Books) as their featured debut. The rest of their top titles are: All Stories Are Love Stories, Elizabeth Percer Evicted, Matthew Desmond Behave, Andromeda Romano-Lax Guapa, Saleem Haddad Innocents and Others, Dana Spiotta Eruption, Steve Olson From Silk to Silicon, Jeffrey E. Garten Dimestore, Lee Smith Fool Me Once, Harlan Coben Separately, the iBooks Store‘s 25 best books of March list includes Sweeney and Spiotta in the fiction carousel, alongside Helen Oyeyemi’s What Is Not Yours Is Not […]