The last of the National Book Award longlists was announced Thursday, with Hanya Yanagihara’s Booker-shortlisted A LITTLE LIFE joining the Booker-longlisted DID YOU EVER HAVE A FAMILY by Bill Clegg, Edith Pearlman’s short-story collection HONEYDEW (following up on the shortlisted collection BINOCULAR VISION), Pulitzer winner Adam Johnson’s story collection FORTUNE SMILES, and more. As will be noted elsewhere, the diverse list eschews both the conventional and commercial. The full list includes: Jesse Ball, A Cure for Suicide (Pantheon) Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family (Scout Press) Karen E. Bender, Refund (Soft Skull) Angela Flournoy, The Turner House (Houghton Mifflin […]
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At NetGalley, Kristina Radke has been promoted to international account director, responsible for sales and account management in North America, the UK and Australia. In the UK, agent Penny Holroyde and former Hodder Children’s art director Claire Cartey launched Holroyde Cartey earlier in the year, an agency representing both authors and illustrators. Alex Christofi has joined Oneworld as editor, nonfiction. Previously he was an agent at Conville & Walsh. Diya Kar Hazra has been appointed publisher of Pan Macmillan India, reporting to Rajdeep Mukherjee. Previously Hazra was founding publisher of Bloomsbury India.
Coates, Smith on National Book Award Nonfiction Longlist
The National Book Awards announced their nonfiction longlist Wednesday morning, with roughly half of the ten books on the list falling into the memoir category (including the much-acclaimed and strong-selling book by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith’s chronicle of her life.) The full list includes: Cynthia Barnett, Rain: A Natural and Cultural History (Crown) Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau) Martha Hodes, Mourning Lincoln (Yale University Press) Sally Mann, Hold Still (Little, Brown) Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus (Atria) Susanna Moore, Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawai’i (FSG) Michael Paterniti, […]
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Pippa White has joined Chronicle Books as associate editor. Previously she was an assistant editor at Grand Central. Publishing Technology has hired Scott Winner for the new position of evp of global projects, overseeing how the company delivers its innovations to customers and Xin He as technical liaison engineer, China. As Knopf prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary, Dave Eggers writes a short piece on Sonny Mehta, “himself an institution.” Mehta notes of his arrival at Knopf to succeed Robert Gottlieb: “I was walking into a storm. If you had taken bets on how long I’d survive, it wouldn’t have been very long. To be […]
Author Solutions Case Closes with Indiana Settlement
Three weeks after settling a long-running lawsuit in the state of New York over fraud, violation of consumer protection acts, and unjust enrichment, Author Solutions has now settled similar outstanding legal actions in Indiana, effectively bringing the entire case to a close. Judge Denise Cote had denied class certification to the plaintiffs in the New York case, but the plaintiffs were still hoping to obtain class certification in Indiana (where ASI is based). ASI issued a statement Tuesday saying the New York and Indiana suits were resolved “without any finding or admission of wrongdoing on the part of Author Solutions or its affiliates. […]
Yanigihara, James, Tyler Among Booker Prize Finalists; National Book Award Poetry Longlist
The shortlist for the Booker Prize was announced Wednesday morning. Two novels by American writers — A LITTLE LIFE (Doubleday/Picador UK) by Hanya Yanagihara, and A SPOON OF BLUE THREAD by Anne Tyler (Knopf/Chatto & Windus) — were included, as were A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (Riverhead/Oneworld), Satin Island by Tom McCarthy (Knopf/Jonathan Cape), The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma (Little, Brown/One), and The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota (Knopf 2016/Picador UK). McCarthy is the only nominee who appeared previously on a Booker Prize shortlist (for C), while Obioma is tied with 2013 winner Eleanor Catton […]