Dwight Garner profiles John le Carré in this weekend’s NYT Magazine, saying he “is still writing at something close to the top of his game.” On his May release A DELICATE TRUTH, Garner writes: “The book is an elegant yet embittered indictment of extraordinary rendition, American right-wing evangelical excess and the corporatization of warfare. It has a gently flickering love story and a jangling ending. And le Carré has not lost his ability to sketch, in a line or two, an entire character.” Also in the magazine is an excerpt from Brian Stelter‘s TOP OF THE MORNING, which publishes next week. Time magazine selects their annual list of “the 100 […]
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A.S.A. Harrison, 65, died April 14 in Toronto. Her debut psychological suspense novel THE SILENT WIFE will be published by Penguin Books, who said in a statement: “We are deeply saddened over the loss of a great woman and a very gifted writer.” A memorial service for longtime Knopf vp, senior editor Ashbel Green, who died last September at the age of 84, will be held in New York at Cooper Union on Thursday, April 25th at 5:00 pm in the Great Hall. A funeral for bestselling author Brennan Manning, best known for The Ragamuffin Gospel, will be held Wednesday, April 17, […]
Awards: Johnson Claims Pulitzer Prize in Fiction; Granta Best Young British Novelists 2013
A year after failing to declare a winner in the fiction category last year (bypassing 2007 Granta Best Young American novelist list member Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!, now up for an IMPAC; Denis Johson’s Train Dreams; and David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King), the Pulitzer Prize has gone back to normal, naming Adam Johnson as the winner in fiction for The Orphan Master’s Son (Random House). Finalists in fiction included The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (Reagan Arthur Books) and Nathan Englander’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (Knopf). The winners in other book categories include: Nonfiction Devil in the Grove: […]
People: Futter Named Publisher of Twelve as Goldstein Leaves to “Pursue Other Interests”
Cary Goldstein is leaving Twelve after seven years, the last two as the imprint’s publisher, to “pursue other interests.” Grand Central president and publisher Jamie Raab said in the announcement that Goldstein has contributed an enormous amount to the imprint’s many successes.” He will remain at Twelve through May 1 as part of the transition that will see Grand Central vp, editor-in-chief Deb Futter will add to her existing duties responsibility for the Twelve imprint as publisher. Futter has been at Grand Central since 2007. “I can’t think of a sharper or more experienced editorial voice to shape this dynamic […]
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Christian Trimmer will join Simon & Schuster Children’s as senior editor on April 15. Previously he was senior editor at Disney-Hyperion. Wah-Ming Chang has joined Melville House as managing editor. Previously she was a production manager at FSG. In addition, Alex Shephard has been named director of digital marketing, as well as managing editor of the publisher’s MobyLives blog. Shephard is editor-in-chief of online literary magazine Full Stop. At Random House, Jennifer Javier has been promoted to regional sales manager, International Sales, covering Indonesia and the Philippines. Javier will be based in Manila. At Hachette Book Group, Ali Coughlin has been […]
Further Shades
A number of agents and authors have been posting more details about–and further dissatisfaction with–the offer to Night Shade authors to modify their contracts and allow them to be transferred to Skyhorse and Start Publishing. As is clear now, Skyhorse seeks to acquire print rights only, and Start Publishing is looking to take over ebook rights. The latter is run by Jarred Weisfeld as a subsidiary of Start Media, “a well-capitalized privately held media company” that he says “is looking to acquire six publishing companies this year.” Weisfeld, who also is an agent at Objective Entertainment, says Start Publishing is “completely separate from […]