Hasan Altaf joins the Paris Review as managing editor next Tuesday. Most recently, he was the managing editor at Harper’s Magazine. Fiction writer, poet, and musician Christian Keifer takes the new role of West Coast editor. Additionally, an expanded roster of advisory editors incorporates former poetry editor Robyn Creswell, plus Saskia Hamilton and Christopher Merrill. At Milkweed Editions, Joanna R. Demkiewicz has been promoted to marketing director. Jordan Bascom moves up to publicist. Former John Murray publishing director Eleanor Birne joins David Godwin Associates as an agent on September 3. The MacDowell Colony announced 87 recipients of fall-winter fellowships, including […]
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Lily Yengle has joined Bloomsbury Children’s as marketing manager. She was previously publicist at Penguin Children’s. Maria Mann has joined Page Street Publishing as publicity and marketing associate. Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will be the keynote speaker at the opening press conference of the Frankfurt Book Fair, on October 9. At the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, director of cultural programs Louise Steinman is leaving the organization, as is associate director Maureen Moore. Steinman founded and the ALOUD reading series at the downtown Central Library for 25 years. Spokesperson Leah Price told the LAT, “We’re in the process of re-envisioning the ALOUD series […]
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Zachary Schisgal has joined Wiley as senior acquisitions editor. Florian Illies will become publisher of Rowohlt in Germany as of January 1, 2019, succeeding Barbara Laugwitz. Illies is the author of Generation Golf and 1913, and is currently the managing director of the auction house Grisebach. Picks The September Pennie’s Pick at Costco is The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle, which is excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter sampler and available for download now. And the month’s PBS NewsHour-New York Times Now Read This pick is Robert Kaplan’s Earning the Rockies. Awards The Academy of American Poets named Sonia Sanchez as […]
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Jimmy Iacobelli will join the Atria Publishing Group as art director on September 4. He was previously art director at HarperCollins. The Rona Jaffe Foundation announced the winners of their annual writers’ awards: Chelsea Bieker (fiction/nonfiction), Lisa Chen (nonfiction), Lydia Conklin (fiction), Gabriela Garcia (fiction), Karen Outen (fiction/nonfiction), and Alison C. Rollins (poetry). The Frankfurt Book Fair will feature Macmillan ceo John Sargent in their annual ceo interview on Wednesday, October 10 at 2 PM. (If you attend, make sure to go say hello afterwards — he won’t have to journal it. As of August 12, Macmillan became the last […]
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Opening Sales Omarosa Manigault Newman‘s UNHINGED sold over 33,000 hardcovers in its first week on sale through outlets tracked by Bookscan — making it the No. 2 hardcover nonfiction book for the week, well behind Rachel Hollis’s still strong GIRL,WASH YOUR FACE, published in February and ahead of Gregg Jarrett’s The Russia Hoax (which sold more than twice as many hardcovers in its opening week at the end of July). Gallery Books comments, “We’re delighted that readers have responded enthusiastically to UNHINGED. It is selling well in all formats — print, ebook and audio. Omarosa continues to promote the book and […]
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Lauren Spiegel has been promoted to executive editor at Touchstone. Frank Bumbalo will join Bloomsbury as director of sales on September 4. Previously, he was senior sales manager at Disney Publishing Worldwide. Margot Mallinson has been promoted to assistant editor at Mira. Molly Fletcher has been promoted to marketing associate, ecommerce at Sourcebooks. Wiley’s svp and managing director of research publishing Jay Flynn takes on the new role of chief product officer for Wiley’s research business. In addition to leading the research publishing group, he adds responsibility for the society portfolio and digital product strategy for the business. Bookselling This fall, The […]