In a special section of PublishersMarketplace we regularly list notable forthcoming releases by month, currently looking out through May. Some release dates are going to shift further into the year, but for now we want to help shine a light on titles publishing today. (Fiction is listed first; the nonfiction sections starts with David Daley.) A Conspiracy of Bones Reichs, Kathy Scribner The Shape of Family Gowda, Shilpi Somaya Morrow The Boy from the Woods Coben, Harlan Grand Central The Red Lotus Bohjalian, Chris Doubleday The Eighth Girl Chung, Maxine Mei-Fung Morrow Less Than a Moment Havill, Steven Poisoned Pen […]
June Bookseller Picks
Amazon’s spotlight pick for June is David Sedaris’s Calypso, and their featured debut is There There by Tommy Orange. A NYT profile calls Orange “part of a new generation of acclaimed indigenous writers from the United States and Canada who are publishing groundbreaking, formally innovative poetry, fiction and prose, shattering old tropes and stereotypes about Native American literature, experience and identity.” And they call his novel “a new kind of Native American epic, one that reflects his ambivalence and the complexity of his upbringing.” Also on their top 10 for the month are: The Book of M, by Peng Shepherd Florida, by Lauren […]
National Book Award Finalists Include Groff, Yanagihara, Coates and More
The finalists for each of the four National Book Award categories were announced Wednesday morning on NPR’s Morning Edition. The winners will be named on November 18. The fiction list gives Booker bettors’-favorite Hanya Yanagihara another chance at a major award, along with recently-named 5 Under 35 honoree Angela Flournoy. Fiction Karen E. Bender, Refund (Counterpoint) Angela Flournoy, The Turner House (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies (Riverhead) Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles (Random House) Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life (Doubleday) Nonfiction Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau) Sally Mann, Hold Still (Little, Brown) Sy Montgomery, The Soul […]
People, Etc.
Kelly O’Connor has been promoted to associate editor at Voyager. Geoff Shandler‘s new imprint at HarperCollins will be called Custom House and has announced some of their acquisitions from the past year. Lauren Grand Lubell has joined Chronicle Books as junior industrial designer. In addition, Marie Oishi has been promoted to managing editor, art, while Elizabeth Smith has been promoted to assistant managing editor, children’s. Bloomsbury’s Public Library Online has hired the former managing director and development manager of the Dutch national digital library Diederik van Leeuwen and Mark Knijnenburg to “drive sales and business development of the platform in the UK and Europe.” […]
NBA Longlist for Young People’s Literature
The National Book Foundation began their week of longlists with the young people’s literature candidates on Monday morning. Actual finalists in all four categories will be named at once on October 14. But it’s already clear that there will be no candidates from the children’s divisions of Penguin Random House, which did not garner a single longlist spot — while HarperCollins’ imprints have five titles in contention: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (Balzer + Bray) Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson (Candlewick Press) The Thing […]