Radhika Jones, editorial director of the New York Times Book Review since late 2016, is expected to be named the next editor of Vanity Fair. She would succeed Graydon Carter who announced his retirement in September. Jones was deputy managing editor at Time Magazine before joining the NYT. At Abrams, Maya Bradford has been promoted to senior publicist, adult trade; Michael Kaserkie, previously with Color-X, has joined as associate production manager; and Stephanie Lee has been promoted to senior digital publishing associate for Abrams Plus. Holiday House Publishing announced that they will join the movement to downtown Manhattan in April 2018. The […]
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Chad Felix will join Grove/Atlantic as digital marketing manager. Previously he was director of library and academic marketing at Melville House. At The Experiment, Nicholas Cizek has been promoted to senior editor, while Liana Willis moves up to assistant editor. Kim-Mei Kirtland has been promoted to full agent at Howard Morhaim Literary Agency. Faber & Faber digital and new business director Henry Volans is leaving the company on November 17 to work for the Foreign Office.
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John Kulka has been hired as editorial director for Library of America, taking over from Geoffrey O’Brien, who will retire at the end of 2017. Currently executive editor at Basic, he has worked for Barnes & Noble, Yale University Press, and Harvard University Press, and has served on the boards of the Dalkey Archive Press and the David Charles Horn Foundation, which supports the Yale Drama Series. Publisher Max Rudin said in the announcement, “John’s broad and deep knowledge of American writing, his experience on both the publishing and bookselling sides, and his career-long dedication to quality, make him the […]
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Jenica Nasworthy has been promoted to managing editor and Katrina Groover moves up to senior production editor for Simon & Schuster Children’s and Paula Wiseman Books. In addition, Clare McGlade has been promoted to senior production editor for Atheneum and Margaret K. McElderry Books, while Rebecca Vitkus is now associate production editor for Aladdin and Simon Pulse. At Soho Press, Mark Doten has been promoted to vp, executive editor. Faye Bi joins Holiday House as publicity manager. Most recently, she was senior publicist at Simon & Schuster. Katie Cooper has joined Sourcebooks as digital content specialist. She was previously social media manager at Wyzant. […]
Briefs: Collusion Book, HBG Buys Meadowbrook, and More
Forthcoming Foreign correspondent for the Guardian Luke Harding’s Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump Win the White House publishes in 10 countries on November 16, with Guardian Faber releasing in the UK and Vintage publishing in the US, as a $16.95 trade paperback. The book focuses the “the gripping inside story” of the dossier compiled by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele in 2016, but promises to add “exclusive new material and key sources from the intelligence community.” It is based on conversations with people close to Steele and draws on a wide range of sources in the US and UK. The book […]
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Kate Napolitano will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as senior editor starting November 13. Previously, she was senior editor for Plume/Blue Rider. At Casemate Group, Curtis Key has been promoted to vice president digital services and publishing operations; Sam Caggiula becomes US group marketing and publicity director, but will continue to acquire titles and look for publishing partnerships; and Michaela Goff has been promoted to the new position of vice president, sales, marketing and client relations. Baker Literary Scouting has been appointed nonfiction scout for Natur och Kultur in Sweden. Nancy Friday, 84, “the author whose books about gender politics helped redefine American women’s sexuality and social identity […]