The National Book Awards began their annual announcements of their longlists, starting with Young People's Literature.
Archives for September 2023
Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes
People 9/12
Shannon Plackis has been promoted to associate editor at Kensington.
Penguin Random House Will Reduce Office Space, “Encourage” Employees to Return “More Frequently”
Penguin Random House interim ceo Nihar Malaviya wrote to US employees on Tuesday about adjustments to their policy on office attendance as well as their use of space at 1745 Broadway. Notably, the company will “reduce our footprint at 1745 Broadway this fall” in order to “save costs on the spaces that are not being used today.” The company declined to indicate how many floors they expect to vacate. (In 2016, PRH took over all of the office condo space from floors 2 through 23, with the exception of the 20th floor, in a lease extension running through mid-2033.) Malaviya […]
One More Author Class Action Suit Against OpenAI; Their First Reply
Author plaintiffs Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, David Henry Wang, Matthew Klam and Rachel Louise Snyder are the latest to file suit against OpenAI in Federal Court in California’s Northern District for San Francisco, seeking class action status “arising from OpenAI’s clear infringement of their intellectual property.” The suit is substantially similar to ones filed earlier this summer — first by named plaintiffs Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad, and then by lead plaintiffs Sarah Silverman, Christopher Golden, and Richard Kadrey. (The latter filed a separate suit against Meta for their AI training.) Both of the earlier suits were brought by the […]
New Books Publishing September 12
James Ellroy and Kelley Armstrong publish new novels this week, while new nonfiction includes work from Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey, Walter Isaacson, and Alejandra Campoverdi. Also out this week are THE VASTER WILDS by Lauren Groff and FAIR ROSALINE by Natasha Solomons, collected in our Buzz Books 2023: Fall/Winter anthology, and AS LONG AS YOU LOVE ME by Marianna Leal, available in our Buzz Books 2023: Romance collection. 26 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-september-12 10 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-september-12 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources […]