George Saunders has won the first Folio Prize for TENTH OF DECEMBER, just a week after winning the Story Prize. (The collection also garnering a National Book Award nomination last fall.) Folio Prize chair Lavinia Greenlaw said in the announcement: “Saunders’s stories are both artful and profound. Darkly playful, they take us to the edge of some of the most difficult questions of our time and force us to consider what lies behind and beyond them. Unflinching, delightful, adventurous, compassionate, he is a true original whose work is absolutely of the moment.” In other awards news, the American Academy of […]
People: Ginna To Leave Bloomsbury Press
Bloomsbury Press publisher and editorial director Peter Ginna will leave the company on March 21 after nearly eight years “by mutual agreement.” Ginna founded the imprint devoted to serious nonfiction, which launched its initial list in 2008, upon moving over from Oxford University Press. Bloomsbury USA publishing director George Gibson will now also serve as publisher of Bloomsbury Press. Ginna told us: “next month Bloomsbury Press will release its 100th title, which seems like an excellent moment to move on. Launching a new imprint from scratch has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my career. I’m grateful to Bloomsbury […]
Zevin’s AJ FIKRY Leads April LibraryReads List
Gabrielle Zevin’s THE STORIED LIFE OF AJ FIKRY, already named the #1 IndieNext pick for April, now also tops the April LibraryReads list. Also appearing is Nina Stibbe’s LOVE, NINA, which is among the 40 titles you can preview right now in our free ebook, Publishers Lunch Buzz Books 2014: Spring/Summer. The LibraryReads list also includes: Emma Donoghue, Frog Music Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night Simone St. James, Silence for the Dead Donna Leon, By Its Cover Shane Kuhn, The Intern’s Handbook Colin Cotterill, The Axe Factor Akhil Sharma, Family Life Erin Duffy, On The Rocks
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Little, Brown announced a number of promotions across several departments. In editorial, John Parsley has been promoted to vp, executive editor, while Wes Miller moves up to editor, Mulholland Books. Victoria Matsui has been promoted to associate editor, while Frederica Bepler moves up to associate editor, paperback manager, and Malin von Euler-Hogan has been promoted to assistant editor. In marketing and publicity, Heather Fain has been promoted to vp, deputy publisher and marketing director, a new title “that acknowledges and reflects the crucial role Heather plays in all aspects of our publishing process.” Reporting to Fain is Pam Brown, newly […]
Touchstone Cancels Publication of @GSElevator Book
The strange saga of @GSElevator, the satirical Twitter feed purportedly from a Goldman Sachs insider who was “unmasked” by the NYT as 34-year-old Texas-based Citi banker John Lefevre last month, has added another turn, as Touchstone announced it has canceled publication of STRAIGHT TO HELL, the formerly anonymous author’s forthcoming book. All the publisher would say in their statement was that “in light of information that has recently come to our attention since acquiring John Lefevre’s STRAIGHT TO HELL, Touchstone has decided to cancel its publication of this work.” Recent reporting by New York Magazine intimated @GSElevator was the effort […]
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Julia Kardon joins Mary Evans as a foreign rights director and agent. Previously she was an agent at Sterling Lord Literistic. At Hachette Book Group, Sophie Cottrell has been promoted to svp, corporate communications. Amanda Englander has joined Clarkson Potter and Potter Style as associate editor. Previously she was an editorial assistant at Grand Central. At Chronicle Books, Ben Laramie has been promoted to senior industrial designer; April Whitney moves up to senior publicist, Entertainment; and Lisa Tauber has been promoted to associate editor. Bloomsbury UK’s director of trade marketing and publicity Katie Bond has “taken voluntary redundancy and [is] […]