Gail Honeyman’s novel Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine tops the May Library Reads list. The list features a number of titles excerpted in our Buzz Books 2017: Spring/Summer, including The Radium Girls, by Kate Moore; Since We Fell, by Dennis Lehane (also included in our May Buzz Books Monthly); and Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig. The rest of the list: The Leavers, by Lisa Ko Saints for All Occasions, but J. Courtney Sullivan White Hot, by Ilona Andrews Sycamore, by Bryn Chancellor Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil de Grasse Tyson The Jane Austen Project, by Kathleen A. […]
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Amazon‘s spotlight pick for May is Patricia Lockwood’s memoir Priestdaddy and their featured debut is Benjamin Ludwig’s Ginny Moon, also excerpted in our Buzz Books 2017: Spring/Summer. The other picks feature: Apollo 8, by Jeffrey Kluger One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi Koul Time’s a Thief, by B.G. Firmani Sycamore, by Bryn Chancellor American Kingpin, by Nick Bilton Trajectory, by Richard Russo The Jersey Brothers, by Sally Mott Freeman Broken River, J. Robert Lennon Barnes & Noble‘s top fiction for May recommends Russo’s book of stories as well, along with: Men without Women, by Haruki Murakami Against […]
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Angela Baggetta is leaving her position as managing director at Goldberg McDuffie Communications, where she has worked for 14 year, at the end of May to launch Angela Baggetta Communications. The new company will create targeted, personalized publicity and marketing campaigns for “authors, thinkers, and doers.” Baggetta will continue work with Goldberg McDuffie on particular projects as well. Michael C. Miller has been named chief legal officer & vp of corporate affairs at Barnes & Noble Education, reporting to ceo Max Roberts. Suzanne E. Andrews will continue as vp, general counsel, and secretary of the board, reporting to Miller. He was evp, […]
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At Amazon Publishing, Katie Finch has been named director of strategic programs. Tilo Eckardt will return to Random House Germany to take charge of Heyne’s hardcover and paperback fiction list, reporting to Ulrich Genzler. He has spent the last four year as an agent with Mohrbooks, and was previously editor-in-chief of Heyne’s hardcover imprints. At Harper Collins, Jennifer Murphy has been promoted to marketing coordinator. Sky Pony Press has promoted Alison Weiss to editor-in-chief. At Chronicle, Jaime Wong has been promoted to marketing manager, children’s. Author of Falling Angel William Hjortsberg, 76, died on April 22. He was the author of eight novels […]
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Sarah Hochman, editor-in-chief of Blue Rider Press and Plume, has decided to leave the publisher, as of May 10. She has been at Blue Rider since its founding in 2011. Andrea Fleck-Nisbet joined Ingram Content Group as director of content acquisition sales, reporting to Kelly Gallagher and based in New York. Previously, she was executive director of digital strategy and operations for Workman Publishing. Holly Root, an agent with Waxman Leavell Literary Agency for the past 10 years, will launch Los Angeles-based Root Literary on May 1. Agent Taylor Haggerty will join Root at the new agency. Distribution Ingram Publisher Services will distribute the Fodor’s […]
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Rich Thomas will join HarperCollins Children’s as vice president and publishing director, reporting to Kate Jackson. He was most recently associate publisher and editorial director for Disney Publishing Worldwide. At HarperCollins Children’s, he will lead the Festival, I Can Read, and licensing programs. Jane Starr Literary Scouts has been appointed US scout for Vigmostad & Bjoerke in Norway. Awards Granta has announced its Best of Young American Novelists list, released with a special issue every ten years. The list includes 21 names selected this year by Patrick deWitt, A.M. Homes, Kelly Link, Ben Marcus and Granta’s editor and publisher Sigrid Rausing. Among the winners […]