Dana Li has joined Catapult/Counterpoint as designer. She was previously at Penguin Children’s. Deirdre Bair, 84, who won the 1981 National Book Award for Samuel Beckett: A Biography, died on Friday in her home in New Haven, CT of heart failure. Awards The UK Women’s Prize announced its shortlist. (As a reminder, they postponed naming the winner until until September 9.): Dominicana, by Angie Cruz (Flatiron/John Murray) Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo (Grove/Hamish Hamilton) A Thousand Ships, by Natalie Haynes (Mantle) The Mirror and the Light, by Hilary Mantel (Holt/Fourth Estate) Hamnet, by Maggie O’ Farrell (Knopf/Headline) Weather, by Jenny […]
Archives for April 2020
New Books Publishing April 21
Even with the many changes in spring pub dates that we continue to track and update at publun.ch/pubdatechanges, another wave of new books comes to market today. (Since we started tracking pub date changes, only 6 titles originally scheduled to release this week have been moved — most notably Ottessa Moshfegh’s DEATH IN HER HANDS, still profiled recently in the NYT and the month’s unpublished Indie Next No. 1 pick. As in recent weeks, we are ready to call attention to a number of notable titles publishing today in need of attention and support. Our sample Bookshop and Aerbook store […]
People, Etc.: Bob Loomis Dies at 93, Brody Promoted at HMH
Renowned former Random House editor Bob Loomis died Sunday at 93, following a fall. RH Publishing Group Gina Centrello calls him, “One of the greatest editors Random House, and our industry, has ever known.” She noted, “I was just one of many who adored and learned from Bob, who inspired several generations of editors and publishers. His values and work ethic are permanently embedded in the Random House DNA.” Loomis retired from Random House in 2011 after spending almost 55 years at the house. The NYT notes, “Loomis likened editing to a quasi-religious function. ‘You have to turn your collar […]
People, Etc.
Hannah Allaman has joined Delacorte as associate editor. She was previously assistant editor at Disney-Hyperion. At the University of Texas Press, Robert Devens has been promoted from assistant director to director. Since joining the press in 2013, they say Devens “led the editorial department toward greater successes in its many core areas — from the establishment of new series in fields ranging from Latinx studies to film studies, to more extensive general interest offerings in areas such as biography and music.” Awards The International Booker Prize has postponed the announcement of this year’s winner, set for May 19. They are […]
Lerner, Serpell and James Among LA Times Book Prize Winners
The LA Times announced the winners of their 2019 book prizes on Friday: Fiction Ben Lerner, The Topeka School Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine Biography George Packer, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century Current Interest Emily Bazelon, Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration History […]
Bloomsbury Announces Capital Raise and Cost-Cutting; Lagardere Continues Fight with Activist Hedge Fund
Bloomsbury announced a series of actions to raise capital and reduce expenses, preparing for a “prudent downside scenario” projecting the impact of the pandemic, which assumes “a 75% decline in print revenues and gradual retailer re-openings, to recovery in January 2021.” The company will raise approximately £8.4 million in cash by selling an additional 3.77 million shares (or 5 percent of the existing issued share capital) to “provide financial flexibility to the Company to enable it to maintain appropriate investment to capitalise on future commercial opportunities, whilst ensuring it remains within its banking covenants.” They note that, “Should a prolonged […]