Barnes & Noble chose You Are Here by David Nicholls as its book club pick for June.
Archives for May 2024
People 5/28
Will Heyward has been promoted to executive editor at Penguin Press.
New Books Publishing May 28
This week’s fiction releases include new books by John Grisham, Garth Risk Hallberg, and David Nicholls, while Jon Meacham and Darius Rucker publish new nonfiction works, along with Sara B. Franklin’s biography of editor Judith Jones. Also out this week is THE SWITCH by Lily Samson, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer anthology. 17 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-may-28 6 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-may-28 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months on […]
Obituary: Caleb Carr
Caleb Carr, 68, author of popular thriller The Alienist, died of cancer on May 23 at his home in Cherry Plain, NY. The son of journalist Lucien Carr, he published 11 books, including most recently the memoir My Beloved Monster, which came out in April. Carr’s editor at Little, Brown, Joshua Kendall, said, “Caleb lived his writing life valiantly, with works of politics, history and sociology, but most astonishingly for this historian, with wildly entertaining works of fiction. These were novels that used baroque canvasses to paint intimate scenes of beauty, suffering, intellectual bravery, and pain. Pain was his final […]
People 5/24
At Harper Children's, Elizabeth Agyemang, Carolina Ortiz, and Sara Schonfeld have been promoted to editor.
ABA Continues to Grow Membership
The ABA announced their annual membership data, adding 248 members over the last year. The organization now counts 2,433 bookstore members, operating in 2,844 locations. The organization indicated that “around 190 more stores are in the process of opening over the next two years,” the AP reports. As the AP explains, however, “new stores” includes pop-ups and online-only stores. ABA ceo Allison Hill also balances the increase in members against the challenges that stores continue to face: “Independent bookselling has never been dependably profitable, and Hill notes various concerns — rising costs, dwindling aid from the pandemic and the ongoing […]