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 […]
Awards
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
The NBA Poetry Longlist
The National Book Awards announced their poetry longlist, naming Terrance Hayes, who won the prize for Lighthead in 2010, and former finalist Rae Armantrout. Also on the list is two-term US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey. The full list of candidates: Rae Armantrout, Wobble (Wesleyan University Press) Jos Charles, feeld (Milkweed Editions) Forrest Gander, Be With (New Directions) Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin Books) J. Michael Martinez, Museum of the Americas (Penguin Books) Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost Of (Omnidawn Publishing) Justin Phillip Reed, Indecency (Coffee House Press) Raquel Salas Rivera, lo terciario / […]
Next, the Longlist for the New NBA Translation Award
The National Book Foundation announced the longlist for its inaugural National Book Award for Translated Literature. Titles in contention include eight novels, one story collection, and one work of nonfiction. The candidates were originally published in nine languages including French, Spanish, Arabic, Tamil, Norwegian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, and Russian. Negar Djavadi, Disoriental, Translated by Tina Kover (Europa Editions) Roque Larraquy, Comemadre, Translated by Heather Cleary (Coffee House Press) Dunya Mikhail, The Beekeeper, Translated by Dunya Mikhail and Max Weiss (New Directions Publishing) Perumal Murugan, One Part Woman, Translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan (Black Cat) Hanne Orstavik, Love, Translated by Martin Aitken […]