Toni Morrison, 88, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 1988 Pulitzer for fiction, died on Monday night at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York. Robert Gottlieb, Morrison’s longtime editor at Knopf, said in statement, “She was a great woman and a great writer, and I don’t know which I will miss more.” Sonny Mehta, chairman of Knopf, said: “Toni Morrison’s working life was spent in the service of literature: writing books, reading books, editing books, teaching books. I can think of few writers in American letters who wrote with more humanity or with more love […]
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Sarah New will join Knopf as publicist starting August 6. She was previously associate publicist at Bloomsbury. At Workman Publishing, Amanda German has been promoted to gift sales coordinator. Ally McNamara becomes sales coordinator within the trade sales department. Katharina Gadow has joined as national accounts manager, online sales. Most recently, she was national account manager at DK Publishing. Lindsey Smith has joined Speilburg Literary Agency as agent representing pop culture, lifestyle, and prescriptive nonfiction. Previously, she co-founded a small press and created the Launch Your Dream Book course at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Nick Wright has joined Bonnier Books UK as […]
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At Penguin Publishing Group, Lauren Monaco has been promoted to senior vice president, group sales director, for Penguin Random House sales. Carrie Swetonic moves up to the newly created position of senior executive director, nonfiction backlist. Caroline Payne has been promoted to marketing coordinator at Dutton. Vijay Seshadri has been named poetry editor of the Paris Review. He won 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for 3 Sections and a 2015 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Giulia Rizzo joined HarperCollins Italia as children’s editor, reporting to editorial director Sabrina Annoni. She was previously with Terre di mezzo Editore and […]
August Picks: Apple Books, and More
The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda is Reese Witherspoon‘s Hello Sunshine book club pick for the month. Apple Books‘ picks for August are: Chances Are…, by Richard Russo True Believer, by Jack Carr Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?, by Brock Clarke The Outlaw Ocean, by Ian Urbina See Jane Win, by Caitlin Moscatello Trick Mirror, by Jia Tolentino The Right Swipe, by Alisha Rai The Escape Room, by Megan Goldin Cold Heart, Warm Cowboy, by Caitlin Crews The Merciful Crow, by Margaret Owen A Dangerous Man, by Robert Crais Lost You, by Haylen Beck The Warehouse, by Rob Hart […]
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Andrew Welham, deputy ceo of Octopus Publishing Group, will retire at the end of the year after 12 years with Hachette UK. Forthcoming Macmillan will publish Edward Snowden‘s memoir PERMANENT RECORD globally on September 17, with Metropolitan as the US imprint. “Edward Snowden decided at the age of 29 to give up his entire future for the good of his country,” Macmillan CEO John Sargent said in a statement. “He displayed enormous courage in doing so, and like him or not, his is an incredible American story. There is no doubt that the world is a better and more private […]
More August Picks
Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for August is Ian Urbina’s The Outlaw Ocean, and they skipped a featured debut this month. Also on the list is Alex North’s The Whisper Man, excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the picks: The Beekeeper of Aleppo, by Christy Lefteri The Turn of the Key, by Ruth Ware How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi Things You Save in a Fire, by Katherine Center Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olda Tokarczuk Gods with a Litte G, by Tupelo Hassman The […]