In case you missed it, or want to rewatch to make sure you got that title right, you can now find the Buzz Books Fall/Winter ’26 Author & Editor Fiction Panel in full on the BuzzBooksOfficial YouTube channel, as well as the conversations between each author and editor pair broken out into individual clips. Watch the panel in full here and download your free sampler with all 66 Buzz selections today. Watch individual author clips below: Chloe Benjamin with Lindsay Sagnette on UNDER STORY (Putnam, September 1) Joseph Fink with Stephanie Beard on THE NUDGE (Podium, September 1) Lydia Millet with Tom […]
Archives for June 2026
New Books Publishing June 9
This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Dave Eggers, James Ellroy, Lisa See, Brynne Weaver, Tia Williams, Andrew Sean Greer, and Caroline Kepnes, while nonfiction includes work by Deb Haaland, Gail Godwin, and Laverne Cox. 38 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-june-9 20 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-june-9 Also publishing this week is Caitlin Mullen‘s HEATHER, which is excerpted in our Buzz Books 2026: Spring/Summer anthology. We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months on Bookshop. Check out June‘s 145 fiction releases, […]
Obituary: David C. Nelson
David C. Nelson, 78, died in New York City on April 26 from complications of dementia. He began his publishing career at Micawber’s Books and the wholesaler Bookman in the Twin Cities before joining Viking Penguin as a Midwest sales representative in 1978 and rose to become vp, director of sales for adult hardcover and children’s books in 1991. Thereafter, his roles included vp, director of sales at Harcourt Brace; vp and publisher at Beaufort Books; executive editor at Sterling Publishing, where he founded the Ethos imprint; and finally literary agent at Waterside Productions. A celebration in his memory will […]
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Bolton to Plead Guilty to Mishandling Sensitive Information in Notes for Book
Former national security advisor to President Donald Trump from 2018-2019 John Bolton will plead guilty to improper handling of classified information related to his memoir, The Room Where it Happened. Bolton was accused of using personal email and a messaging app to send “more than 1,000 pages of notes, which included national defense information” to his wife and daughter, the NYT reports. His email was later hacked by “a cyber actor believed to be associated with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” according to the indictment. Previously, the first Trump administration sued Bolton unsuccessfully to block the publication of the 2020 […]