Claire Legrand’s novel Furyborn tops May’s Library Reads list. You can read an excerpt now in our Buzz Books 2018 Young Adult Spring/Summer sampler. Also on the list are Araminta Hall’s Our Kind of Cruelty, Aimee Molloy’s The Perfect Mother, and Sarah Winman’s Tin Man, all of which are also available to sample now in Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer. The rest of the picks: The Other Lady Vanishes, by Amanda Quick The Death of Mrs. Westaway, by Ruth Ware Love and Ruin, by Paula McLain Paper Ghosts, by Julia Heaberlin The Favorite Sister, by Jessica Knoll The Ensemble, by Aja Gabel
Awards
Briefs: Prince’s Memoir, Comey’s Launch, and More
Forthcoming In a podcast with Variety, Esther Newberg at ICM confirmed that Prince‘s memoir, sold to Chris Jackson at One World shortly before the performer’s death in 2016, will indeed be published. She suggests the title will be ready soon, “hopefully at next Christmas” (meaning 2019, apparently). The publisher tells us that a publication date has not been confirmed yet. Written by Dan Piepenbring (starting with the 50 pages of manuscript that Prince had written before his death), Newberg calls it “a wonderful testament to a great songwriter and performer.” (Update: the book is staying with Spiegel & Grau rather […]
Brinkley’s A Lucky Man Tops May’s Indie Next List
The ABA named Jamel Brinkley’s short story collection A Lucky Man as their No. 1 pick for May. Also on the list are Sarah Winman’s Tin Man; Aimee Molloy’s The Perfect Mother; Stephen McCauley’s My Ex-Life; Jenny Milchman’s Wicked River; and Sheila Heti’s Motherhood, all of which are featured in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer and available to sample now. The rest of the list: Noir, by Christopher Moore Love and Ruin, by Paula McLain The Ensemble, by Aja Gabel The Only Story, by Julian Barnes Welcome to Lagos, by Chibundu Onuzo Warlight, by Michael Ondaatje The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner Mr. Flood’s Last Resort, by Jess Kidd […]
People, Etc.
Jaime Levine will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on April 30 as senior editor focusing on acquiring psychological suspense, thrillers, and mysteries. Theresa Collier has been promoted to senior manager, publicity and marketing at Artisan Books. At Sourcebooks, Jillian Rahn has been promoted to associate art director. The Guggenheim Fellows were named for 2018, including fiction writers Rachel Cusk, Andrew Sean Greer, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Haigh, Min Jin Lee, China Miéville, and Deb Olin Unferth; nonfiction writers Nicholson Baker, Teju Cole, Robert Finch, Roxane Gay, Jane Kamensky, John Jeremiah Sullivan, and Lily Tuck; and nine poets. Acquisitions Independent Publishers Group has acquired academic book distributor […]
Awards, and More
Awards Joan Silber won the PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel Improvement (which won the NBCC Award last month.) She will receive the $15,000 award at a ceremony on May 5 at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. John F. Cogan will receive the Manhattan Institute’s Hayek Book Prize for The High Cost of Good Intentions. The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, honoring books that address racism and diversity, are going to Jesmyn Ward, Kevin Young, N. Scott Momaday and Shane McCrae. The newest book promotion from Bill Gates is for his late friend Hans Rosling‘s Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the […]
April iBooks Picks
The iBooks favorites for April include Barbara Lipska’s The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer and available to download now. The rest of the list features: The Female Persuasion, by Meg Wolitzer A Nantucket Wedding, by Nancy Thayer Greeks Bearing Gifts, by Philip Kerr The Recovering, by Leslie Jamison The Fallen, by David Baldacci Circe, by Madeline Miller The Overstory, by Richard Powers School for Psychics, by K.C. Archer Savor You, by Kristin Proby The Opposite of Hate, by Sally Kohn And Now We Have Everything, by Meaghan O’Connell Heads of the Colored People, by Nafissa Thompson-Spires Rebound, by Kwame Alexander How to Write and Autobiographical Novel, by Alexander Chee […]