Barbara Kline Pope will take over as director of the Johns Hopkins University Press this fall. She has been executive director of the National Academies Press since 1997, recently served as president of the Association of American University Presses, and has been on the management board at MIT Press. Previous director Kathleen Keane retired in April. At Little, Brown, Ned Rust has been promoted to vice president and publisher for James Patterson, responsible for all aspects of the adult and children’s publishing programs. Jenny Bak has been promoted to editorial director for the children’s line, Jimmy Patterson Books. Stephanie Buschardt has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as publicist. […]
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Mondadori has appointed Maria B. Campbell Associates UK as their UK scout, starting August 1. Tina Brown and Harold Evans hosted a memorial party honoring the late Ed Victor, in accordance with his wishes, covered by the NYT. Pulitzer winner for “Buried Child” and author of forty-four plays, plus many books of short stories, essays, and memoirs Sam Shepard, 73, has died. PBS announced a new eight-part TV series, The Great American Read, to launch in Spring 2018. The series will featured 100 of America’s best-loved books, selected by the public and an advisory panel of literary professionals. Six episodes of the series will […]
People: Kakutani Steps Down, and More
Michiko Kakutani, the chief book critic for the New York Times, is stepping down from that position after 38 years. She says she is “moving on to focus on longer pieces about politics and culture, though I will always love and write about books.” (Vanity Fair indicates she is among those taking a voluntary buyout from the paper, which the NYT neglects to include in their own reporting.) Kakutani joined the books desk in 1983, and in 1998 she won a Pulitzer “for her passionate, intelligent writing on books and contemporary literature.” As editor Pamela Paul and editorial director Radhika Jones say […]
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At Sourcebooks, Stephanie Lewis has been promoted to business data manager; Drew French has been promoted to sales data associate. Nick Lindsay has been promoted to director of journals and open access for MIT Press. Sarah Baline will join Catapult, Counterpoint Press, and Soft Skull Press as events coordinator starting August 14. Most recently, she was events coordinator for East City Books in Washington, D.C. At Random House Children’s, Shay Brown has been promoted to production coordinator and Alice Rahaeuser has been promoted to production supervisor. At Ingram Content Group: Tricia Racke Bengel has joined as library sales and services manager for Ingram Library Services (she was […]
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At Scholastic Trade, Megan Peace has been promoted to associate editor. Mara Lander has joined as senior marketing director for licensed publishing and brand management. She was previously executive director for licensing and brand management for Little, Brown Children’s. Sarah Jacobson has joined Scholastic as assistant production editor. Most recently, she was freelancing at Scholastic and has held previous positions at Melville House and Kennebec Publishing. Carolyn Bull has joined as designer for licensed publishing. She was previously junior designer at Little, Brown Children’s. Marian Brown will join Henry Holt as a publicist at large. Previously, she was executive publicist for Blue Rider Press. At Little, Brown Children’s, Anna […]
August Library Reads, and More
Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin tops August’s Library Reads list. Also on the list is Leah Weiss’s If The Creek Don’t Rise, featured in our August Buzz Books Monthly sampler, available for download now on Amazon, iBooks, and NetGalley. The rest of the list includes: Glass Houses, by Louise Penny How To Find Love In a Bookshop, by Veronica Henry Reincarnation Blues, by Michael Poore, Morningstar, by Ann Hood The Address, by Fiona Davis Emma In The Night, Wendy Walker The Burning Girl, by Claire Messud, The Clockwork Dynasty, Daniel Wilson In other recommendations, Stephen King tweeted this endorsement on Monday, of MY ABSOLUTE DARLING, by Gabriel Tallent: “This […]