Priyanka Krishnan, formerly at Harper Voyager, has joined Orbit as editor. Bradley Englert has been promoted to editor. At Penguin Random House Canada, Beth Lockley is promoted to the new position of vp, marketing and communications, overseeing a combined marketing and publicity team and reporting to chief operating officer Robert Wheaton. Longtime executive Tracey Turriff, who has been vp, publicity and svp, corporate communications, is leaving as a result, after 22 years with the company. (Both Lockley and Turriff had once reported to now-retired ceo Brad Martin.) Josh Glover has been promoted to director, publicity. The August pick for the PBS […]
Awards
Ondaatje, Kushner, Powers Among the Booker Longlisted
The Guardian posted the Man Booker Prize longlist early, in advance of Wednesday’s scheduled announcement, and then promptly took it down. But the list survived in the Google cache and across social media (and now is public). Titles from US authors include Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room (Jonathan Cape/Scribner), Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina (Granta/Drawn and Quarterly) — the first graphic novel to grace a Booker list — and Richard Powers’s The Overstory (William Heinemann/Norton). The only previous Booker winner on the longlist is Michael Ondaatje for Warlight (Jonathan Cape/Knopf), while the other Canadian listed is Giller Prize winner Esi Edugyan for Washington Black (Serpent’s Tail/Knopf). Two debut novels are […]
People, Etc.
At Bonnier Publishing USA, Brett Duquette, formerly senior editor at Sterling Publishing, has joined Little Bee Books and Yellow Jacket; Rachel Gluckstern, formerly production editor at Scholastic, has joined BuzzPop as editor; Lauren Carr, formerly publicity coordinator at Scholastic, has joined the children’s group as publicist. Stephani Stilwell has been promoted to designer and Michael Ploetz has been promoted to coordinator, marketing and publicity. Also having their jobs eliminated at Picador as a result of the “realignment” we reported on Thursday are creative director Henry Yee (who worked there for 26 years) and senior designer LeeAnn Falciani, who leave in August, and associate editor Pronoy Sarkar, whose […]
People, Etc.
Lauren Lauzon has been promoted to marketing associate at William Morrow. At Coffee House Press, Nica Carrillo has been promoted to marketing and sales manager. Mandy Medley has been promoted to publicity director. In Italy, Francesco Anzelmo has been promoted to publishing director of the Mondadori flagship imprint. Awards John Irving has won the 2018 Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, honoring “writers whose works use the power of literature to foster peace, social justice, and global understanding.” The award will be presented at Dayton Literary Peace Prize gala on October 28. Imprints Joel Fotinos‘s new line will be called […]
Picks: Another Barack Obama Reading List; August Library Reads
Barack Obama posted another summer reading list in advance of his trip to Africa. The list of mostly African authors includes: Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe A Grain of Wheat, by Ngugi wa Thiong’o Long Walk to Freedom, by Nelson Mandela Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Return, by Hisham Matar The World As It Is, by Ben Rhodes Separately, Vox by Christina Dalcher is the top pick for the August’s Library Reads list. Also on the list are Louise Candlish Our House and Kristan Higgins’s Good Luck with That, both excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer sampler and available to download now. The rest […]
People, Etc.
Longtime Washington Post Book World editor Ron Charles is transitioning into a “redefined job” at the paper. He writes: “No more editing! From now on, I just get to write about books for the paper. After assigning and editing reviews every day for more than 20 years, I feel like that old tiger finally released from his cage who just keeps walking back and forth where the bars used to be. . . . Friends tell me I’ll get the hang of it.” Succeeding Charles as Book World editor is Stephanie Merry, who was previously a culture reporter for the […]