The Windham-Campbell Prizes announced this year’s winners, which each recipient to receive $165,000 at a ceremony held at Yale University during the weekend of September 13-15. The Prizes included awards in poetry for the first time. The full list features: Fiction: André Alexis (Canada) and Erna Brodber (Jamaica) Nonfiction: Maya Jasanoff (U.S.) and Ashleigh Young (New…
Reliability of “Pill City” Author Questioned Further With NYT Unable to Corroborate Reporting
Questions continue to mount about the veracity of the reporting in Kevin Deutsch’s PILL CITY, published earlier this month, after the New York Times writes that it was unable to corroborate claims and locate sources in a separate story Deutsch published in the paper last December. That story, on how fentanyl is outpacing heroin use…
Trade Sales Pulled to Even In Third Quarter of 2016
Year-end stats from Bookscan and PubTrack Digital and current earnings season reports from public companies have been giving us a good picture of 2016 trade publishing performance. So it feels a little odd to step back as the AAP — still running a month or two behind their normal schedule — has released monthly StatShot statistics for September 2016….
People, Etc.
Little, Brown vp, associate publisher and executive director of publicity Nicole Dewey is leaving at the end of April, to become managing director at Shreve Williams Public Relations as of May 1. Sabrina Callahan has been promoted to executive director of publicity at Little, Brown, effective immediately. Tiffany Liao has joined Holt Children’s as editor. She was previously editor at…
People: Morgan Joins Riverhead, and More
Former editorial director at Harper Perennial and Harper Paperbacks Cal Morgan will join Riverhead as vp, executive editor. Riverhead president and publisher Geoffrey Kloske said in the announcement: “I’ve always admired Cal’s innovative literary vision and passion for books and publishing. After a few decades of competing against him I’m thrilled to have him join the community…
Simon & Schuster Cancels Milo’s DANGEROUS
Just one week after the publication date for Milo Yiannopoulos’s DANGEROUS was pushed back from March 14 to June 13 at the author’s request (while he appeared to admit he had yet to “submit the manuscript”), Simon & Schuster cancelled publication of the book. The company’s statement, issued Monday afternoon, reads in full: “After careful consideration, Simon…