Employees at Washington, D.C.’s Politics & Prose bookstore intend to unionize, DCist reports. Some workers have signed union authorization cards, but owners Bradley Graham and Lissa Muscatine will wait to recognize the union until after a vote through the National Labor Relations Board. An estimated 55 of the store’s 100 workers across three locations are eligible to join. In unionizing, the employees want “a contract that secures a living wage instead of a minimum one, as well as pay transparency and a standardized pay scale;” “to improve scheduling;” “shape health and safety policies, and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion training.” […]
Best Of: People, The New Yorker
People magazine announced their Top 10 books for 2021, including three titles in our Buzz Book collections.
Andrew Cuomo Ordered to Pay Book Advance to State
The New York Joint Commission on Public Ethics ordered Andrew Cuomo to turn over whatever portion of his $5.1 million book advance he has already received to the state within 30 days. The commission had previously approved the book deal, but rescinded that decision in November after the state Assembly found in its impeachment report that Cuomo used state employees to work on the book. The ethics commission voted 12-1 for Cuomo to relinquish his profits to the New York attorney general’s office. According to the New York Post, AG Letitia James will decide how to distribute the money. The […]
New Books Publishing in December
Nadifa Mohamed and Stuart Woods lead the rest of the month’s fiction releases, while nonfiction includes new work from James Patterson and Benjamin Wallace. Also out this month is THE SPANISH DAUGHTER by Lorena Hughes, which is excerpted in our Buzz Books 2021: Fall/Winter sampler. 10 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-through-the-end-of-the-year https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_Through_the_End_of_the_Year/220838 6 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-through-the-end-of-the-year https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_Through_the_End_of_the_Y/220839 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 […]
Harper Institutes Vaccine Requirement
In a memo to New York staff on Monday, HarperCollins announced that employees and visitors must be vaccinated to use the New York office. This is in accordance with governor Kathy Hochul’s new requirement that people must wear masks inside any public place without a vaccine mandate. Still, Harper encourages mask wearing in common areas. New York will reassess the measure on January 15, and Harper will reassess it’s guidelines then as well. Harper had been the outlier among the Big Five publishers in not requiring vaccination to use the office, which remains voluntary.
FEC Allows Random House to Rent Campaign Email List
The Daily Beast reports that the Federal Election Commission has allowed Random House to rent Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) campaign email list to promote his October book, Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could. Significantly, the decision opens up the possibility of the same for other politicians. The FEC decided that it would allow the rental as long as Random House pays fair market value for the list, and “no Committee resources or personnel would be used to promote the book.” Schiff petitioned the FEC for the use of the list after his book came […]