The NYT has published lists of their individual critics’ favorite books of the year, from veteran Dwight Garner, newcomer Parul Seghal, the departing Jennifer Senior, and even/still Janet Maslin. Maslin writes, “Mine is the strangest of these lists. I left The Times’s staff two and a half years ago, but apparently I won’t go away. I write intermittently about books with the potential to be popular. The good ones are hard to find.” She gives special thanks to Bill O’Reilly for his spring release Old School (written with Bruce Feirstein). “He’s right about many things, particularly when it comes to […]
Archives for December 2017
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At Ten Speed Press, Kaitlin Ketchum has been promoted to senior editor. Georgia Bodnar has been promoted to associate editor at Viking. Natalie Hallak has been promoted to assistant editor at Park Row Books and Hanover Square Press. Alyssa Awe has been promoted to senior vice president, strategic operations and projects for Penguin Random House. At Simon & Schuster Audio, Elisa Shokoff has been promoted to vice president, executive producer; Sarah Lieberman has been promoted to vice president, associate publisher; Lauren Pires has been promoted to assistant director of marketing and publicity. Charlton Villavelez has been promoted to production coordinator for Simon […]
Lorin Stein Resigns From Paris Review and FSG Following Investigation of His Behavior
Editor of The Paris Review since 2010 Lorin Stein resigned on Wednesday, the NYT reported, writing the board a letter in which he apologized for his behavior: “At times in the past, I blurred the personal and the professional in ways that were, I now recognize, disrespectful of my colleagues and our contributors, and that made them feel uncomfortable or demeaned. I am very sorry for any hurt I caused them.” He said further, “The way I behaved was hurtful, degrading and infuriating to a degree that I have only begun to understand this past month.” Separately, book publisher FSG also […]
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Kim Thornton has been promoted to senior agent director for Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau. At Waterbrook Multnomah, Andrew Stoddard has been promoted to the new position of lead acquisitions editor. Amara Hoshijo has been promoted to associate editor and rights manager at Soho Press. The Fred Rogers Company has appointed Rachel Hecht Children’s Scouting as literary scout for television. Harassment Files Executive art director of the Penguin Workshop imprint Giuseppe Castellano resigned from the company, following accusations of sexual harassment by actor Charlene Yi. Castellano posts: “As a result of her online campaign against me, an untenable […]
Swedish Academy Tainted By Reports of Nobel Prize Leaks, Allegations of Sexual Assault
Two weeks after Swedish media reported on allegations from 18 women of sexual assault and harassment by Jean-Claude Arnault, the artistic director and co-owner of a prominent cultural organization called Forum – Current Place of Culture (but referred to in Sweden as The Club), a new story alleges that he leaked the winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature in advance on multiple occasions. Arnault’s wife and co-owner of Forum Katarina Frostenson Arnault is a member of the Swedish Academy. Dagens Nyheter reports that the Academy has retained law firm Hammarskiöld & Co. to “investigate each member’s ties to [Mr. Arnault], and if […]
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Marisa Vigilante will join Little, Brown as senior editor on January 2, reporting to Tracy Behar for her yet-to-be-named new imprint. Previously Vigilante was senior editor at Rodale. Follett president and ceo Ray Griffith will retire at the end of the company’s fiscal year in March 2018. Patrick Connolly will take over as president and ceo on January 2. He was ceo of Universities Worldwide, a unit of Sodexo that supports the university and K-12 market. At Ten Speed Press, Daniel Wikey has been promoted to senior marketing manager and Erin Welke has been promoted to senior publicity manager. Adria Goetz has been promoted […]