Annie Proulx will receive the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the awards ceremony on November 15, honored “for her exceptional work and significant impact on American literature.” Actor Anne Hathaway (who starred in the film adaptation of Brokeback Mountain) will present the award. Proulx tells the AP, “I was astonished when first I heard that news. I simply had not thought of my various writings as a body of work that might be considered as a contribution to American letters. It almost seemed that I had been negligent in writing what I considered discrete novels […]
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Shannon Jamieson Vazquez has joined Crooked Lane as senior acquisition editor. She continues to run SJV Editorial, and was previously an editor at Berkley. At Random House Children’s, Nancee Adams has joined as copy editor. She was previously was a freelance copy editor and proofreader. Bess Schelper has joined as associate copy editor. She was previously a website managing editor and social media editor, and worked on the Penguin Random House corporate metadata cleanup project. Miriam Miller has joined Holiday House Publishing in the newly created position of senior subsidiary rights manager, reporting to vp of rights, permissions and digital publishing […]
Kirkus Prize Nominees, FT Shortlist
The Kirkus Prize announced their award candidates in fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature. The winners will be announced in a ceremony on November 2. In fiction, they nominate one Booker candidate (Hamid) and two NBA longlisted-authors (Machado and Ward). The only other point of overlap is children’s nominee Angie Thomas, also on the NBA longlist. The complete nominees: Fiction What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, by Lesley Nneka Arimah (Riverhead) Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid (Riverhead) White Tears, by Hari Kunzru (Knopf) The Ninth Hour, by Alice McDermott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Her Body and Other Parties, […]
People, Etc.: Sheinkman to PFD, and More
Elizabeth Sheinkman will move to PFD as executive director of the books department and senior agent on October 5, and she will join the agency’s executive board. She has been at WME in London since 2012, moving over from Curtis Brown UK. Agency ceo Caroline Michel says in the announcement, “We are lucky to have someone with Elizabeth’s experience and knowledge joining the team and look forward to welcoming her and her clients and growing the business with her.” Sheinkman adds that she looks forward to “the chance at this juncture to develop new skills through a role that will […]
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Susan Van Metre will join Candlewick Press as executive editorial director of the new Walker Books US imprint, set to launch in fall 2018. Van Metre has been with Abrams for the past 15 years, most recently as svp and publisher of the children’s division, and will remain based in New York. President and publisher of Candlewick Press and group managing director of the Walker Books Group, Karen Lotz says: “We are extremely lucky to have someone of Susan’s keen talents and vast knowledge join us at this important moment in our corporate history. Helping the Walker Bear take up new digs in the […]
October Library Reads
Francesca Hornak’s novel Seven Days of Us is the top pick for October’s Library Reads list. The novel is also featured in our Buzz Books 2017 Fall/Winter sampler, available for download now. Another Fall/Winter Buzz Books title, We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union, also makes the list. The other picks are: The Last Mrs. Parrish, by Liv Constantine The Last Ballad, by Wiley Cash From Here to Eternity, by Caitlin Doughty The Rules of Magic, by Alice Hoffman The Stolen Marriage, by Diane Chamberlain Uncommon Type, by Tom Hanks Strange Weather, by Joe Hill Manhattan Beach, by Jennifer Egan