Byrd Leavell has moved to UTA. Waxman Leavell Literary Agency will revert to its original name, Waxman Literary Agency. Azia Cheng has been promoted to ceo of Penguin Random House North Asia, reporting to Markus Dohle, effective immediately. She has been sales director there since 2008 and succeeds Helen Duan, who departed last month. The…
Awards
Awards: Whiting Will Support Nonprofit Literary Magazines
The Whiting Foundation announced a new initiative to support small nonprofit literary magazines through a program of awards, matching grants, and organizational help. Director of literary programs Courtney Hodell says in the announcement, “When literary magazines suffer, literature feels it, and when they thrive, so do writers and readers. We hope to bring more attention…
Kirkus Prize Nominees, FT Shortlist
The Kirkus Prize announced their award candidates in fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature. The winners will be announced in a ceremony on November 2. In fiction, they nominate one Booker candidate (Hamid) and two NBA longlisted-authors (Machado and Ward). The only other point of overlap is children’s nominee Angie Thomas, also on the NBA longlist. The…
Ward and Egan Lead National Book Award Fiction Longlist
The National Book Awards announced their final longlist on Friday morning, for the fiction award. (Asterisked titles have not been released yet.) Independent presses fared well, with 5 titles in contention: Elliot Ackerman, Dark at the Crossing (Knopf) Daniel Alarcón, The King Is Always Above the People: Stories* (Riverhead) Charmaine Craig, Miss Burma (Grove Press)…
October Library Reads
Francesca Hornak’s novel Seven Days of Us is the top pick for October’s Library Reads list. The novel is also featured in our Buzz Books 2017 Fall/Winter sampler, available for download now. Another Fall/Winter Buzz Books title, We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union, also makes the list. The other picks are: The Last Mrs. Parrish, by…
Next, the Nonfiction Longlist
Today the National Book Awards released the nonfiction longlist, with judges Steve Bercu, Jeff Chang, Ruth Franklin, Paula J. Giddings, and Valeria Luiselli selecting politically-skewed reading: Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (37 Ink) Frances FitzGerald, The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America (Simon & Schuster) James…