The Harper Collins Union is on day 18 of their strike (counting work days), which began on November 10, and UAW Local 2110 president Olga Brudastova affirms to PL that the union is prepared to continue as long as it takes to get to a contract. We estimate that the striking workers are losing something on the order of $250,000 a week in gross wages (or $50,000 for each strike day). Here, the workers’ alignment with the auto workers union shows its strength. The UAW strike fund pays each worker $400 per week, starting from the first day of the […]
Archives for December 2022
Amazon Sarah Selects Book Club
The Amazon Sarah Selects pick for December is Kevin Wilson’s Now is Not the Time to Panic.
People 12/2
Diana Pho joins as executive editor at Erewhon.
Cundill History Prize
Our Missing Hearts Leads the Early Voting for Book of the Year
It’s that time: Every year we aggregate selective lists from all over — newspapers, reviewers, booksellers, librarians, book clubs, major awards and more — to provide the ultimate consensus on the year’s very best books, which always results in a terrific set of lists. Last year The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers and Empire of Pain, by Patrick Radden Keefe shared the top honor as the best books of the year. For now it’s still early in the “list season,” with about 33 votes in so far, and the leading picks are all tightly packed, though […]
People 12/1
At PRH Children's, Amanda Close is promoted to senior vice president, children’s sales and strategic development.