The iBooks favorites for July include Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Keith Gessen’s A Terrible Country, both excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer sampler and available for download now. The rest of the list features: The Other Woman, by Daniel Silva From the Corner of the Oval, by Beck Dorey-Stein What We Were Promised, by Lucy Tan Clock Dance, by Anne Tyler Suicide Club, by Rachel Heng Give Me Your Hand, by Megan Abbott Watch the Girls, by Jennifer Wolfe The Poisoned City, by Anna Clark No One Tells You This, by Glynnis MacNicol I Think I Love […]
Awards
Briefs
Awards After the postponement of the 2018 Nobel prize for literature in May, 100 Swedish writers, actors, journalists and other cultural figures have formed an organization called the New Academy, which will award its own prize this fall. A statement on their website says, “We have founded The New Academy to remind people that literature and culture at large should promote democracy, transparency, empathy and respect, without privilege, bias arrogance or sexism.” The academy has asked Sweden’s librarians to nominate authors from anywhere in the world, with the stipulation that they have written at least two books, one of which was published […]
July Bookseller Picks
The Pennie’s Pick at Costco for July is Daniel Silva’s The Other Woman. Amazon‘s spotlight pick for the month is My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, and their featured debut is The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan. Another top ten pick, Baby Teeth, is excerpted along with the Moshfegh in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer sampler and available for download now. Also on their list for the month: Indianapolis, by Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic America for Beginners, by Leah Franqui The Poisoned City, by Anna Clark The Billionaire Raj, by James Crabtree What We Were Promised, by Lucy Tan Believe […]
People, Etc.
John Siciliano has been promoted to executive editor for Penguin Books. He continues as executive editor for Penguin Classics. Remy Cawley has joined Nation Books as an assistant editor. Cawley was formerly at Norton. Michelle Obama‘s Facebook page features a video with remarks from her recent appearance at the ALA’s annual conference in New Orleans, talking about her forthcoming book: “It’s a its rehumanization effort…. It’s the ordinariness of a very extraordinary story. I hope that by telling it that it makes others..to feel the pride in their story in the way I feel about mine… I am not a unicorn. […]
Kwon’s The Incendiaries Tops August Indie Next List
The ABA named R.O. Kwon’s novel The Incendiaries as its No. 1 pick for August. (Separately, Barnes & Noble announced their Best Beach Reads for the summer.) Also on the list is Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage, which is excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer sampler, and available for download now. The rest of the picks: Dear Mrs. Bird, by AJ Pearce Meet Me at the Museum, by Anne Youngson Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens Cherry, by Nico Walker The Family Tabor, by Cherise Wolas Jell-O Girls, by Allie Rowbottom America for Beginners, by Leah Franqui The Reservoir Tapes, by […]
People, Etc.
Mike Zuccato has been promoted to general manager, ecommerce at Sourcebooks. Kelly Snowden has been promoted to senior editor at Ten Speed Press. Initiatives Penguin Random House is helping Metro-North Railroad promote recently-expanded free wifi in and around Grand Central Terminal with a Grand Central Reads website. It provides free e-book excerpts for commuters, “tailored and timed to the length of individual commutes.” In the UK, Profile Books has partnered with Little Brown UK to launch a Profile Audio line, starting with David Runciman’s How Democracy Ends in July. Profile editor Louisa Dunnigan and publicity director Hannah Ross will work with […]