The ABA named Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation as its No. 1 pick for July. Also on the list are Beatriz Williams’ The Summer Wives, James A. McLaughlin’s Bearskin, and Ann Mah’s The Lost Vintage, and you can read an excerpt of all four titles in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer sampler, available for download now. The rest of the list: Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai Clock Dance, by Anne Tyler The Cabin at the End of the World, by Paul Tremblay The Secrets Between Us, by Thrity Umrigar Bring Me Back, by […]
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People, Etc.
Brendan Deneen is leaving Macmillan to join “multi-platform production company” Assemble Media as president of literary and IP development, still working on both publishing and film/TV: “I look forward to working with authors, agents and publishers on book ideas, and tracking the publishing world for material that would make fantastic, commercial films and television shows, while also developing original IP directly for the screen.” At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Milena Giunco has joined as publicist. She was most recently publicity coordinator at Scholastic. Ingrid Beck has joined the Crown Publishing Group as senior editor, WaterBrook and Multnomah. Previously she was acquisitions editor for […]
Briefs: Carla Hayden to Interview Michelle Obama at ALA; Award Winners; and Apple Books Changes
Appearances When Michelle Obama addresses the opening general session of the 2018 ALA Annual Conference on June 22, she will be joined on stage by Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden, who “will moderate a conversation.” Awards The Jewish Book Council’s $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature has gone to Ilana Kurshan’s memoir If All the Seas Were Ink. The Lambda Literary Award announced winners in 23 categories at an awards ceremony Monday night. Roxane Gay and Edmund White were awarded Lambda’s Trustee and Visionary Awards, respectively. Apple Updates As Bloomberg reported back in January, Apple’s forthcoming iOS 12 […]
Oprah Pick, New Proposals and Untitled
Oprah Winfrey‘s latest selection for her book club (specially promoted through Amazon as usual) is Anthony Ray Hinton‘s The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row. A rare nonfiction pick, she says of the book: “This story reads like an epic novel and it is all true. You will, throughout the book, try to imagine yourself — falsely accused, and in a 5-by-7 cell for 30 years. He is a remarkable storyteller and when you read it you’ll be swept away.” Book proposals making news including one still in formation from recently-departed national security adviser General […]
June iBooks Picks
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
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 […]