At Workman Publishing, Page Edmunds has been promoted to executive associate publisher; Danny Cooper becomes editor; Kylie McDonald move up to senior editor, director of cookbooks; Rachael Mt. Pleasant has been promoted to editor; Megan Nicolay becomes executive editor; and Maisie Tivnan moves up to executive editor. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced a number of recent promotions in their sales department. Colleen Murphy has been promoted to vp, special markets, mass market sales, and product development. Ed Spade, has been appointed director, digital sales, strategy and business development. James Phirman has been promoted to national accounts director, mass market, and Jaclyn Sassa moves up to associate sales representative. McGraw-Hill Education named Dr. […]
Archives for April 2018
Harper’s Magazine Fires Editor James Marcus
Subsequent to our brief note from Monday that Harper’s Magazine editor James Marcus has left the publication, Marcus tells PL that he was fired on Friday afternoon, for “opposing the publication of Katie Roiphe’s cover story in the March issue.” The article, “The Other Whisper Network: How Twitter feminism is bad for women,” drew criticism online in January before it was published, over suggestions that Roiphe intended to reveal the identity of the creator of the “Sh—y Media Men” list. That controversy led to the list’s creator Moira Donegan identifying herself in her own article for The Cut. Marcus gave us […]
Rudin Countersues Lee Estate, Wants to Perform Mockingbird for the Court
Scott Rudin’s production company Rudinplay has countersued the estate of Harper Lee and its representative Tonja Carter in a New York Federal Court, as part of their response to the lawsuit filed against Rudin in March in an Alabama Federal Court looking for a judgment that the planned Broadway adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird departs from the spirit of the novel and alters two its characters, in violation of the license. Rudin’s lawsuit seeks to move the jurisdiction to New York, whose law governs the licensing contract, and asks for “an expedited determination” that the play does not violate […]
People, Etc.: McGuire to Lead Atria
Libby McGuire has been named senior vice president and publisher of the Atria Publishing Group, starting April 30 and reporting to Jonathan Karp. She has been a literary agent at The Gernert Company since early 2017, and was and executive vice president and publisher of Ballantine Bantam Dell, where she worked for 16 years, until late 2015. Karp said, “Libby McGuire is one of the most dynamic and successful publishers in our industry. I have had the pleasure of working closely with her in the past, and was an eyewitness to her creativity, acuity, warmth, collaborative nature, and passion for publishing. Her […]
Greer Is Surprise Pulitzer Fiction Winner
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon, with LESS by Andrew Sean Greer winning the fiction prize. (Christopher Buckley had written in the NYT last July: “Convulsed in laughter a few pages into Andrew Sean Greer’s fifth novel, Less, I wondered with regret why I wasn’t familiar with this author. My bad. His admirers have included John Updike, Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers and John Irving. Less is the funniest, smartest and most humane novel I’ve read since Tom Rachman’s 2010 debut, The Imperfectionists.”) LESS is the rare fiction winner that was not prominent among other awards nominees or “best of the year” […]
People, Etc.
Nebraska Book Company announced that chief financial officer Jay Amond has been promoted to president and ceo, succeeding Rick Bunka. Michelle Triant has been promoted to publicity manager at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. At Random House Children’s, Casey Moses has been promoted to junior designer. Former Barnes & Noble ceo Ron Boire will take over as ceo of Midwest furniture and mattress retailer Art Van. Rachel Hecht Children’s Scouting has been appointed scout for Beijing Yutian Hanfeng in China. Co-owner of independent sales rep firm Faherty & Associates, Thomas Faherty, Jr., 63, died last Thursday of cancer. The company told Shelf Awareness, in part, […]