Acclaimed editor Robert Gottlieb, 92, who was editor in chief at Simon & Schuster and both president and editor in chief at Knopf, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. Gottlieb also served as the third-ever editor of the New Yorker from 1987 to 1992. As the New York Times notes, he “edited novels by, among many others, John le Carré, Toni Morrison, John Cheever, Joseph Heller, Doris Lessing and Chaim Potok; science fiction by Michael Crichton and Ray Bradbury; histories by Antonia Fraser and Barbara Tuchman; memoirs by former President Bill Clinton and Katharine Graham, the former publisher of The Washington […]
Archives for June 2023
Pagnamenta Joins Kneerim & Williams to Form New Agency, Calligraph
The Kneerim & Williams Agency and The Zoë Pagnamenta Agency have joined together to form a new literary agency, Calligraph, based in New York and Boston. Katherine Flynn and Zoë Pagnamenta serve as managing partners, joined by Alison MacKeen as partner. Kneerim & Williams co-founder John Taylor (Ike) Williams says in the announcement, “I am thrilled we are uniting with Zoë and her distinguished agency. My late co-founder and friend, Jill Kneerim, and I had long treasured our friendship with Zoë and admired her many successes. My colleagues and I look forward to working with her and her team to […]
Amazon’s Best Books So Far
Amazon chose their Best Books of 2023 So Far, with 278 selected titles across 12 categories. Their overall No. 1 pick is Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
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Distribution: Mattel
Beginning July 1, Simon & Schuster will handle sales and distribution in the U.S. and Canada for Mattel Press and American Girl Publishing.
Obituary: Cormac McCarthy
Celebrated novelist Cormac McCarthy, 89, died on Tuesday at his home in Santa Fe, NM. He was the author of, among others, Blood Meridian; All The Pretty Horses, which won the National Book Award for fiction in 1992; and The Road, which won the Pulitzer in 2007. He most recently published two novels last year, Stella Maris and The Passenger. Read other obituaries from The Washington Post, NPR, and Rolling Stone.