The iBooks favorites for June include: The Death of Mrs. Westaway, by Ruth Ware When Life Gives You Lululemons, by Lauren Weisberger Calypso, by David Sedaris Too Wilde to Wed, by Eloisa James The Perfect Couple, by Elin Hilderbrand What Truth Sounds Like, by Michael Eric Dyson There There, by Tommy Orange Bearskin, by James A. McLaughlin The Word Is Murder, by Anthony Horowitz The Robots of Gotham, by Tom McAulty I Flipping Love You, by Helena Hunting Blood Standard, by Laird Barron What Eyes Don’t See, by Mona Hanna-Attisha Neverworld Wake, by Marisha Pessl
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June Bookseller Picks
Amazon’s spotlight pick for June is David Sedaris’s Calypso, and their featured debut is There There by Tommy Orange. A NYT profile calls Orange “part of a new generation of acclaimed indigenous writers from the United States and Canada who are publishing groundbreaking, formally innovative poetry, fiction and prose, shattering old tropes and stereotypes about Native American literature, experience and identity.” And they call his novel “a new kind of Native American epic, one that reflects his ambivalence and the complexity of his upbringing.” Also on their top 10 for the month are: The Book of M, by Peng Shepherd Florida, by Lauren […]
People, Etc.
Alysia Shewchuk has been promoted to senior designer at House of Anansi Press. Caroline Hayes has left Barnes & Noble, where she was most recently manager, cataloging and metadata. She may be reached at carolineahayes@gmail.com. Sarah Crichton will leave her position as publisher of Sarah Crichton Books at FSG at the end of this year. She established the imprint there in 2004. Correcting last week’s item, executive editor Carole DeSanti “has decided to depart from Viking,” but is not retiring. Former editor turned author George Hodgman paid tribute to DeSanti in this Facebook post, joined by many others in publishing. For […]
Briefs: Tokarczuk Wins The Booker International, and More
Awards Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft, won the Booker International Prize. (Riverhead is scheduled to publish in the US on August 24.) Initiatives Hachette Book Group has launched an online community for mystery and thriller fans, Novel Suspects. “The centerpiece will be the very best books in the genre–from HBG as well as all other publishers,” and promising to “fully integrate other publishers’ titles into the fabric of the site.” SVP marketing strategy Heather Fain calls it “a truly comprehensive catalog of all the books and authors [fans] love paired with fun and lighthearted short-form articles, listicles, videos and […]
People, Etc.: Roth Dies at 85
Philip Roth, 85, died Tuesday night in a New York hospital of congestive heart failure. The NYT calls him “the prolific, protean, and often blackly comic novelist who was a pre-eminent figure in 20th-century literature…. Mr. Roth was the last of the great white males: the triumvirate of writers — Saul Bellow and John Updike were the others — who towered over American letters in the second half of the 20th century. Outliving both and borne aloft by an extraordinary second wind, Mr. Roth wrote more novels than either of them.” Hillel Italie at the AP refers to Roth as […]
People, Etc.
Liz Stein has moved over to the William Morrow group as senior editor. Previously she was with Park Row Books. Rachel Crawford joins Naval Institute Press as production editor. She was most recently production editor/coordinator for Springer Nature. Awards The SFWA announced the Nebula Award winners over the weekend, with NK Jemisin‘s The Stone Sky awarded Best Novel and Sam J. Miller‘s The Art of Starving winning in the YA category.