Archives for March 2025
Starting in the Middle
When Simon & Schuster publisher Sean Manning first applied for an editor position at the flagship imprint in 2016, then-publisher Jonathan Karp told him he was the least qualified candidate, The Cut reports. Manning had never worked in books, just magazines. But according to Manning, Karp meant it as a compliment. “His feeling was, if we bring somebody who’s maybe seeing things differently, what could that potentially lead to?” he said. Publishing is often thought of as an apprenticeship industry, but Manning is one publishing professional who entered in the middle of their career, without having started as an assistant […]
New Books Publishing March 25
This week’s fiction releases include books by Nell Zink, Colum McCann, and Harlan Coben. New nonfiction includes work from Graydon Carter, Amanda Knox, and W. G. Sebald. Also publishing this week are new books by Emily Carpenter, Ron Currie, India Hayford, and Oz Rodriguez and Claribel A. Ortega, all excerpted in our Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer sampler. 28 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-march-25 20 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-march-25 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 […]
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Windham-Campbell Prize Winners
PEN America Awards Invite Criticism for a Second Year
PEN America released longlists for its annual awards on Friday, and at least two authors report that they have withdrawn their books from consideration. Kaveh Akbar and Brandon Shimoda, whose books were longlisted for the $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, announced on social media that they were declining the nominations and referred readers to Writers Against the War on Gaza for more information. According to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, Shimoda’s book The Afterlife Is Letting Go did not appear when PEN posted the longlists, and as of press time Akbar’s Martyr! is still listed. WAWOG has criticized PEN America […]