Eamon Dolan will join Simon & Schuster Publishing Group as vice president and executive editor starting October 1. Dolan was most recently with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where he ran his own imprint, Eamon Dolan Books, which was shut down in July. Simon & Schuster president and publisher Jonathan Karp says, “Eamon will continue to do what he has done so brilliantly for years: Identify, edit, and publish some of the best writers and thinkers in the culture – authors whose works are relevant to understanding our times and how they are changing, and capable of being just as meaningful in the […]
Awards
Booker Shortlist Includes Two Graywolf Titles
Awards season starts to take shape with the release of the Booker Prize shortlist (with the winner to be named the week following the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 16). Esi Edugyan from Canada’s Washington Black (Knopf) is the only title in contention for more than one major fiction award this year, having just made the Giller longlist. Knopf said they are going back to press for a third printing of the book. Neither of the two nominated American authors — Rachel Kushner‘s The Mars Room (Scribner) and Richard Powers‘ The Overstory (Norton) — are on the National Book Awards longlist. But Graywolf Press is the forthcoming US publisher […]
People, Etc.
Russell Busse has joined Abrams Children’s as senior editor, entertainment and licensed publishing. He was previously with Little, Brown Children’s. Masha Gunic has joined Azantian Literary Agency as junior literary agent. She was previously editorial assistant at Abrams. The Frankfurt Book Fair named their new group of 16 Fellows (including Olivia Taylor Smith at Unnamed Press in the US). Acquisitions Hachette Book Group has closed their deal to acquire Christian publisher Worthy Publishing Group. Worthy’s founding publisher and CEO Byron Williamson becomes vp, publishing development for Hachette Nashville, joining HBG’s senior management group. Worthy sales and distribution will move to HBG […]
The NBA Fiction Longlist
The National Book Foundation announced the last of their longlists, for fiction, focused on newcomers. Lauren Groff, a nominee in 2015, is a candidate, but no other authors named on the longlist have previously been recognized by the National Book Awards. Of the ten titles, five are published by Penguin Random House, while four are from small presses. The full list: Jamel Brinkley, A Lucky Man (Graywolf Press) Jennifer Clement, Gun Love (Hogarth) Lauren Groff, Florida (Riverhead) Daniel Gumbiner, The Boatbuilder (McSweeney’s) Brandon Hobson, Where the Dead Sit Talking (Soho Press) Tayari Jones, An American Marriage (Algonquin) Rebecca Makkai, The Great […]
The NBA Nonfiction Longlist
Today’s National Book Award announcements continue with the nonfiction longlist. None of the selected authors have been recognized by the National Book Foundation before, but among the candidates are Pulitzer winner Steve Coll, and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Carol Anderson. The full list: Carol Anderson, One Person, No Vote (Bloomsbury Publishing) Colin G. Calloway, The Indian World of George Washington (Oxford University Press) Steve Coll, Directorate S (Penguin Press) Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple, Brothers of the Gun (One World) Victoria Johnson, American Eden (Liveright) David Quammen, The Tangled Tree (Simon & Schuster) Sarah Smarsh, Heartland (Scribner) Rebecca […]
Guillory Tops October Library Reads
The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory is the top pick for October’s Library Reads list. Other titles include The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain, Virgil Wander by Leif Enger, and Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver, all of which are excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter. The rest of the list: The Clockmaker’s Daughter, by Kate Morton Consumed, by J. R. Ward The Library Book, by Susan Orlean November Road, by Lou Berney One Day in December, by Josie Silver The Witch Elm, by Tana French A Spark of Light, by Jodi Picoult