Random House Graphic publishing director Gina Gagliano will leave the imprint she founded on December 3.
Archives for November 2021
Robinson’s Sons Explore Possibilities to Challenge His Will
The late Dick Robinson’s sons are “exploring avenues” to challenge his will, the WSJ reports. While Reece Robinson signed a document in July waiving his right to challenge the will, according to a legal filing seen by the paper, Ben Robinson declined to do so. In response to a follow-up summons, Ben and Reece responded together on November 12, “asking New York Surrogate’s Court…for documents regarding the will, written in 2018, and the right to examine related witnesses.” Thomas Rice, a lawyer at Baker & McKenzie who represents Scholastic, said: “Creating legal delays and distractions isn’t in the best interest […]
PRH Employees Get Additional Time Off for Holidays
For most Penguin Random House office employees, the last day of work for 2021 is December 17, multiple employees confirmed to PL. In addition to previously scheduled vacation days, the company added December 20 through 23. (PRH has usually been closed for at least part of Christmas Eve, if not the whole day.) The extra rest is welcome in a year in which employees across the industry have struggled with burnout, and one employee attributed the move to “a job well done the other 50 weeks of this year.” Other large publishers did not respond to our queries about any […]
Assault Conviction Described in Sebold Memoir Overturned
The man convicted of the rape depicted in Alice Sebold’s 1999 memoir LUCKY was exonerated after 40 years this week. Anthony J. Broadwater, 61, had served 16 years in prison and then was registered as a sex offender for the crime, but always maintained his innocence. On Monday, a New York state judge overturned all of his charges, and his classification as a sex offender, due to flaws in the original trial—misconduct by the prosecution, now-discredited hair analysis, and Sebold’s misidentification of Broadwater. Timothy Mucciante, the former executive producer of the forthcoming Netflix film adaptation of LUCKY, helped bring the […]
Costa Book Awards Shortlists
Best Of: Apple, NYPL
The New York Public Library released its extensive package of Best Books for adults, teens, kids, and kids in Spanish.