The extensive longlists for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were announced. The shortlist, consisting of three fiction and three nonfiction titles, will be announced on November 8. The German Book Prize was awarded to Antje Rávik Strubel for her novel Blaue Frau (S. Fischer).
Archives for October 2021
People 10/19
Tim O’Connell will join as vice president, editorial director, fiction, starting November 8. He was at the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group for the past 15 years.
Scholastic Is No Waystar Royco
The NYT has an odd, meandering, meta piece on the succession of Iole Lucchese as the controlling owner of Scholastic and the paper’s efforts to cover that development, apparently timed to match the return of HBO’s show Succession rather than relating to the actual news from late July. Lucchese tells the paper the news that she was to inherit Dick Robinson’s controlling Class A shares in Scholastic, delivered the day after learning of his death, “was overwhelming.” She was told by Scholastic general counsel and co-executor of Robinson’s estate, Andrew Hedden. Not explored in the story is whether the company […]
People 10/18
Longtime chief operating officer Andrew Mandel will leave Farrar, Straus on December 1 after over 17 years there.
Forthcoming: The Steal by Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague
Atlantic Monthly Press will publish Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague’s THE STEAL: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It on January 4, 2022. The book “offers a week-by-week, state-by-state account of the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election” and includes “never-before-told accounts from the election officials fighting to do their jobs amidst outlandish claims and threats to themselves, their colleagues, and their families.”
People 10/15
Peter Phillips has been promoted to editor at Tundra. Kali Hopkins-Allen has joined Penguin Random House Canada as manager, publicity and marketing.