The Pulitzer Prizes were announced Friday afternoon, with Louise Erdrich winning the fiction prize for The Night Watchman. The rest of the winners and finalists: Fiction The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich (Harper) Finalists A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, by Daniel Mason (Little, Brown) Telephone, by Percival Everett (Graywolf) History Franchise, Marcia…
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Picks: Amazon’s Best Books of The Year So Far, And More
Amazon announced its top books of the year so far, astutely putting Maggie Shipstead’s novel in the top spot: 1. Great Circle, by Maggie Shipstead 2. Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro 3. The Code Breaker, by Walter Isaacson 4. We Begin at the End, by Chris Whitaker 5. What’s Mine and Yours, by…
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Elizabeth Trout has been promoted to assistant editor at Kensington. Corporate LSC Communications has renamed its books division — which includes Dover Publications — Lakeside Book Company. CEO Dave McCree said, “The Lakeside name is a nod to our roots and symbolic of the trust our company has earned to help stories of all kinds…
Newman’s Falling Tops July Indie Next List
The ABA named Falling by T. J. Newman as its Indie Next No. 1 pick for July. Also on the list are Carolyn Ferrell’s Dear Miss Metropolitan, Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray’s The Personal Librarian, and Miranda Cowley Heller’s The Paper Palace, all excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2021: Spring/Summer….
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Quarto COO Ken Fund will retire from the company on December 1, and will leave the board at the same time. He joined Quarto in 1999, originally as president and CEO of Rockport Publishers, before running the company’s US division for many years. He says in the announcement, “Being a part of Quarto for the…
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Janet Hill Talbert will join Nelson Books as executive editor, starting June 14. She was most recently senior editor at Guideposts Books and Inspirational Media. Anna Cooperberg has joined Hay House as editor, with a focus on metaphysical topics. Previously, she was assistant editor at Workman Publishing. Jess Zimmerman will join Quirk Books as editor…