Editor Charlie Conrad, 61, died on November 21 from complications of ALS. Throughout his career, he held positions at New American Library, Warner Books, Doubleday, Broadway, Crown, Penguin, and Berkley. He edited Frances Mayes and Jon Krakauer, as well as THE LAST DUEL, adapted into a 2021 film, and THE TERMINAL SPY, which is slated to become an HBO series. In a statement, PRH said, “Conrad was a beloved colleague by all. [He] was a voracious reader and consumer of magazines and newspapers (he preferred old-school print), a lover of music, good food and wine, and an avid NPR listener. […]
People 11/24
Random House Graphic publishing director Gina Gagliano will leave the imprint she founded on December 3.
Assault Conviction Described in Sebold Memoir Overturned
The man convicted of the rape depicted in Alice Sebold’s 1999 memoir LUCKY was exonerated after 40 years this week. Anthony J. Broadwater, 61, had served 16 years in prison and then was registered as a sex offender for the crime, but always maintained his innocence. On Monday, a New York state judge overturned all of his charges, and his classification as a sex offender, due to flaws in the original trial—misconduct by the prosecution, now-discredited hair analysis, and Sebold’s misidentification of Broadwater. Timothy Mucciante, the former executive producer of the forthcoming Netflix film adaptation of LUCKY, helped bring the […]
Best Of: Apple, NYPL
The New York Public Library released its extensive package of Best Books for adults, teens, kids, and kids in Spanish.
New Books Publishing November 23
Diana Gabaldon and Mario Vargas Llosa lead this week’s fiction releases, while nonfiction includes essays by Ann Patchett and Haruki Murakami on t-shirts. 10 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-november-23 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_November_/220593 5 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-november-23 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_November_/220594 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make sure your key titles are on our radar, now you can use this form to submit brief details as well: publun.ch/submitNotable. Please submit your notable titles at least 3 months prior to pub date.
Obituary: Caroline Todd
Caroline Todd, pseudonymous author of mystery novels with her son under the name Charles Todd, died on August 28. She was 86. Todd’s books take place in English villages after World War I. The mother-son team submitted their first book, A TEST OF WILLS, to Ruth Cavin at St. Martin’s Press in 1996. She agreed to publish it, and it sold out its first print run. “Everyone respected that their books weren’t fluff, that they were about real history, about real people in a real time,” mystery writer Rhys Bowen told the NYT. “They were one of the better mystery […]