Gallery Books Group is launching 13A, a new imprint “dedicated to publishing renowned, relevant, Black voices in culture and politics.” Named for the amendment that abolished slavery, the imprint will launches in July with a revised edition of Patti LaBelle’s cookbook, LABELLE CUISINE, with original titles to follow in 2022. Charles M. Suitt will serve as publisher. Suitt was a co-founder Karen Hunter Publishing, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
Archives for June 2021
ALA Conference Closes With Obama
Barack Obama closed the ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition on Tuesday afternoon in conversation with Smithsonian secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III. Obama discussed his memoir, A Promised Land, as well as the importance of museums and libraries, and issues including Black Lives Matter and the January 6 insurrection. “One of the things I worry about both in our country and around the world,” he said, “and I write about this in A Promised Land, is the rise of certainty that there is this unbridgeable distinction between us and them.” Restoring the US, he said, will take not just a reaffirmation […]
Workplace Racism Survey Released
POC in Publishing and Latinx in Publishing released their Workplace Racism Survey, which was conducted in 2018 and asked current and former BIPOC publishing employees about their experiences with racism and microaggressions at work. The report includes action items and resources for further learning, and specifically suggests that white publishing professionals not reach out to their BIPOC colleagues to discuss it, creating more unpaid emotional labor for them. Of the 211 participants, 58% have worked in publishing for 0-5 years, 18% for 6-10 years, and 24% for 11 or more years. They work at Big 5 houses and independent presses, […]
GMA July Book Pick
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New Books Publishing June 29
Riley Sager, Francine Prose, and Jason Mott lead this week’s fiction releases, while nonfiction includes titles from Adam Serwer, Inger Burnett-Zeigler, and more. Also new this week are titles from Miranda Cowley Heller and Shanora Williams, both excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2021: Spring/Summer sampler. 17 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-june-29 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_June_/219529 4 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-june-29 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_June_/219530 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make sure your key titles are on our […]