In addition to sharing 40 substantial pre-publication excerpts from notable forthcoming titles, our free ebook Buzz Books 2016: Fall/Winter also opens with our signature preview of hundreds of additional titles to look for in the coming months. With BEA finishing up, we’ve been running selections from those preview lists in Lunch all week long. Today we close out with highlights in debut & literary fiction, with earlier preview lists for commercial fiction and nonfiction. Remember, you can get the adult and YA trade editions of Buzz Books 2016 as direct EPUBs from us, or from NetGalley for any platform. The consumer editions of both […]
Archives for May 2016
People: Katherine Dunn Dies
Katherine Dunn, 70, author of the National Book Award-nominated 1989 novel Geek Love, died Thursday in Portland, OR from complications of lung cancer. Dunn also published two earlier novels as well as an essay collection on boxing, and was at work on her fourth novel upon her death. “Katherine was an enormously talented writer, and an amazing person to be around,” Knopf president and publisher Sonny Mehta said in a statement. “Her interests were always striking to me, and I feel very fortunate to have made her acquaintance upon my arrival in America. Geek Love was one of the first […]
ABA’s Teicher: “The State of Independent Bookselling Remains Strong”
Following the early release of the American Booksellers Association’s annual membership numbers which showed their seventh annual increase — along with an indication of increased print unit sales at member stores that report to Nielsen Bookscan, the organization’s ceo Oren Teicher addressed the group’s annual meeting. He noted that “almost two third of the ABA members” in attendance at BEA this year are members “who have not been to this show in recent years,” due to the one-year relocation to Chicago. (BEA returns to Javits Center in New York in 2017.) Teicher celebrated “independent booksellers’ commitment to innovation and hard […]
BEA: Foggy In Chicago
Chicago has been wrapped in fog as BEA returns to this city for the first time in over a decade, a smaller show than it has been in some time. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Beyond the already-reported reduction in advertised show square footage, almost everything about this year’s show makes you feel small. Even if it were packed, occupying just one part of the mammoth, multi-building McCormick Place convention center sprawl exacerbates the smallness. The main exhibition floor of the West Building that houses BEA is listed at 470,000 square feet — about 15 percent bigger than […]
Anne Tyler’s VINEGAR GIRL Tops June Library Reads List
Anne Tyler’s novel Vinegar Girl, the latest in the Hogarth Shakespeare series, is the No. 1 pick for the June Library Reads list. You can start reading an excerpt of another novel on the list, Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry, right now Buzz Books 2016: Spring/Summer. The rest of the list features: The Invisible Library, by Genevieve Cogman Grunt, by Mary Roach Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi Missing, Presumed, by Susie Steiner Stiletto, by Daniel O’Malley We Could Be Beautiful, by Swan Huntley Lily and the Octopus, by Steven Rowley Widowmaker, by Paul Doiron
People, Etc.
Orion publishing director Kate Mills will join Harlequin UK later this summer in the newly created role of publishing director of HQ (the rebranded banner for most of Harlequin UK). Mills was at Orion for the past 14 years, and will focus on commercial fiction, including crime, women’s fiction and book club titles. Sarah Mangiola has joined Open Road as senior web editor, books, where she will work on all book-related stories for Open Road’s network of websites, and produce excerpts and book lists. Previously she was an editorial content manager at The Reading Room. Emma Ledbetter has been promoted to […]