The Whiting Awards were announced in a ceremony Wednesday evening. The ten winners of the $50,000 prize are: Fiction Patty Yumi Cottrell (Sorry to Disrupt the Peace, McSweeney’s) Brontez Purnell (Since I Laid My Burden Down, Amethyst Editions) Weike Wang (Chemistry, Knopf) Nonfiction Esmé Weijun Wang (The Collected Schizophrenias, forthcoming from Graywolf Press) Anne Boyer (Garments Against Women, Ahsahta Press) Poetry Rickey Laurentiis (Boy with Thorn, University of Pittsburgh Press) Tommy Pico (Nature Poem, Tin House Books) Playwrights Nathan Alan Davis (Nat Turner in Jerusalem; Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea) Hansol Jung (Among the Dead, Cardboard Piano) Antoinette Nwandu (Pass Over, Breach)
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Silber and FitzGerald Lead NBCC Winners
On Thursday night, the National Book Critics Circle presented their 2017 book awards to: Fiction Improvement, by Joan Silber (Counterpoint) General Nonfiction The Evangelicals, by Frances FitzGerald (Simon & Schuster) Autobiography Nine Continents, by Xiaolu Guo (Grove) Biography Prairie Fires, by Caroline Fraser (Metropolitan Books) Criticism You Play The Girl, by Carina Chocano (Mariner) Poetry Whereas, by Layli Long Soldier (Graywolf)
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Tracy Behar‘s new nonfiction imprint will be named Little, Brown Spark. She says in the announcement that the name was chosen “to reflect our mission to publish books that spark ideas, feelings, and change.” As previously announced, launching in fall 2018, the line is focused on health, lifestyle, psychology, and science. Alongside senior editor Marisa Vigilante, Behar is joined by associate editor Ian Straus, and associate director of marketing Jessica Chun. Steven Wallace has joined the University of Georgia Press as director of marketing and sales. Previously he was business development manager at New Leaf Distributing. Awards Shortlists were announced for the UK’s Carnegie and […]
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Tina Jordan has left her position as vice president of AAP after 12 years, to “temporarily explore her lifelong passion of becoming a professional surfer.” BookEnds Literary has launched a children’s division, BookEnds, Jr. Miles Franklin Award-winning crime writer (and Gold Dagger honoree) Peter Temple, 71, died on Thursday of cancer. Forthcoming Candlewick will publish two-time Newbery Medal winner Kate DiCamillo‘s eighth middle-grade novel, LOUISIANA’S WAY, returning to the world of Raymie Nightingale, globally on October 2, 2018. Awards The Booker International Prize announced its 13-book longlist, with the shortlist to be announced on April 12 and the winner to […]
Book Expo Announces Editors’ Buzz Panel Selections
Book Expo has named the books to be featured during the three annual Editors’ Buzz panels at this year’s show. In contrast to the past two years, when the adult panels featured four debut novels, the new selection is a departure: Four of the titles are works of nonfiction. (The last time that happened was in 2013.) Adult Maid, by Stephanie Land (Hachette Books) Ohio: A Novel, by Stephen Markley (Simon & Schuster) She Would Be King, by Wayetu Moore (Graywolf Press) Small Animals, by Kim Brooks (Flatiron Books) The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that […]
Mangan’s Tangerine Tops April’s Indie Next List
The ABA named Christine Mangan’s novel Tangerine as their No. 1 pick for April. Also on the list are Charles Soule’s The Oracle Year and Chris Offutt’s Country Dark, both excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer and available to sample now. The rest of the list: Circe, by Madeline Miller The Female Persuasion, by Meg Wolitzer And Now We Have Everything, by Meaghan O’Connell The Overstory, by Richard Powers The Recovering, by Leslie Jamison Varina, by Charles Frazier The Italian Teacher, by Tom Rachman The Italian Party, by Christina Lynch Stray City, by Chelsey Johnson Lawn Boy, by Jonathan Evison Every Note Played, […]