Foreign rights manager for the French publisher Editions La Fabrique Ernest Moret, 29, was arrested on Monday at St Pancras Station in London on his way to the London Book Fair. When Moret arrived at the train station from Paris, two plainclothes London police officers stopped him on suspicion of terrorism, related to his participation in protests in Paris over Emmanuel Macron’s change to the pension age. The officers confiscated Moret’s phone and computer and he was arrested when he refused to give them the passcodes, the Guardian reports. Moret remains in custody. In a joint press release, Editions La Fabrique […]
Obituary: Michael Denneny
Michael Denneny, 80, died on April 12. He worked as an editor at the University of Chicago Press, Macmillan, St. Martin’s Press, and Crown, and published books including Randy Shilts’s And the Band Played On, Buckminster Fuller’s Critical Path, Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls, and Judith Thurman’s Isak Dinesen. The first openly gay editor at a major publishing house, Denneny was instrumental in publishing gay literature and founded Stonewall Inn Editions at St. Martin’s in 1987. He also founded Christopher Street magazine and wrote three books, including On Christopher Street: Life, Sex, and Death After Stonewall, which published in March.
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Obituaries: Anne Perry, Bill Ott
Anne Perry, 84, died on April 10 in Los Angeles. Perry was the author of more than 100 novels, including the bestselling William Monk series and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, and won the Edgar Award in 2000 for her story “Heroes.” Perry’s editor, Ballantine executive editor Susanna Porter, said, “Ballantine Books has had the honor of being Anne Perry’s US publisher for over twenty years. Her novels have collectively spent many months on the New York Times and other national bestseller lists, American readers having embraced her clever and thought-provoking crime writing by the thousands. Anne in turn […]
NYPL Announces 2023 Cullman Center Fellows
The NYPL announced the 2023 Cullman Center fellows, including fiction writers Caoilinn Hughes, Amitava Kumar, and Catherine Lacey; nonfiction writers Jessica Bruder, Molly Crabapple, Lance Richardson, and Brenda Wineapple; poet Nicole Sealey; and translator Yasmine Seale. The NYPL selects “people whose work will benefit directly from access to the collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.” The fellows receive a stipend and an office at the midtown building, as well as access to the library’s research collections.
Bookshop.org Has Raised $2.3M to Launch Ebook Sales
A Wired profile of Bookshop.org founder Andy Hunter details the past and future of the company, most notably explaining that Hunter has raised $2.3 million to fund the company’s initiative to sell ebooks. (Participating bookstores will make 30 percent of the cover price for each book sold.) In January, the ABA — which is a Bookshop investor — voted to invest $200,000 in the ebook rollout, and the project’s main investor is William Randolph Hearst III, who was a principal investor when Bookshop launched. The article acknowledges the challenges involved in the initiative, since many alternative app-based reading platforms have tried […]