At NBC News, Ariella Prince has been promoted to booking producer, handling author bookings across all NBC News programs and platforms (including Today, NBC Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, Megyn Kelly, and their digital properties). For the past seven years, she has worked under Jackie Levin, booking authors for all hours of the Today Show. Brookings Institution Press editorial director Bill Finan has been promoted to director, and Yelba Quinn has been promoted to assistant director. Quressa Robinson has joined Nelson Literary Agency as an agent, based in New York. Previously she was editor at Thomas Dunne Books and agent […]
Awards
Machado Tops October Indie Next List
The ABA named Carmen Maria Machado’s debut story collection Her Body and Other Parties the No. 1 Indie Next Pick for October. The list features a number of titles excerpted in our Buzz Books 2017 Fall/Winter Collection (noted with asterisks). Plus, two picks, Logical Family by Armistead Maupin and The Prague Sonata by Bradford Morrow, are available as audio excerpts in our October Buzz Books Monthly (NetGalley and iBooks versions only). The rest of the list: The Last Ballad, by Wiley Cash Manhattan Beach, by Jennifer Egan The Rules of Magic, by Alice Hoffman The Twelve-Mile Straight, by Eleanor Henderson* The Glass […]
People, Etc.
Harper announced the creation of Harper Collins Hungary. Harlequin Hungary and junior joint venture partner Vinton, which have operated for 25 years, will rebrand under the Harper Collins name, continuing to publish romance and expanding the trade line with titles from HarperCollins and Harlequin, as well as local authors. Beatrix Vasko, editor-in-chief of HarperCollins Hungary, says: “HarperCollins, with its 200-year history, provides a solid framework for us to grow our publishing program and expand into new genres.” Amazon is searching for a location for a second US headquarters that they’re calling HQ2, a “full equal to our Seattle headquarters.” Bloomberg reports that the company is […]
September iBooks Picks
iBooks has listed its best of September recommendations. (Titles excerpted in Buzz Books 2017 Fall/Winter are noted with asterisks.) Their top fiction list includes: Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward Forest Dark, by Nicole Krauss Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng* A Column of Fire, by Ken Follett Autonomous, by Annalee Newitz* Nonfiction features: Braving the Wilderness, by Brene Brown The Book of Separation, by Tova Mirvis A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, by Adam Rutherford Blue Ocean Shift, by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne The Vietnam War, by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns And their YA picks are: They […]
September Bookseller Picks
Gabriel Tallent’s My Absolute Darling is Amazon‘s spotlight pick for September (though it actually published Tuesday of this week), and Ali Land’s Good Me Bad Me* is their featured debut. The rest of their top picks for the month, which include 4 titles you can sample now in our free Buzz Books*, are: Sourdough*, by Robin Sloan Little Fires Everywhere*, by Celeste Ng The Golden House, by Salman Rushdie Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process, by John McPhee Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward Ranger Games, by Ben Blum The Burning Girl, by Claire Messud A Legacy of Spies, […]
PEN Center USA Withdraws Smelcer’s Stealing Indians Amidst Claims of Fraud
PEN Center USA withdrew John Smelcer’s Stealing Indians from the shortlist for their 2017 young adult award, after The Stranger and the LA Times reported longstanding disputes to the author’s claim of Native heritage. (The organization did not issue a statement beyond noting the withdrawal of the title on Twitter.) The Stranger first reported on Smelcer’s disputed heritage on August 23, with authors including Sherman Alexie weighing in that Smelcer has been “held in great suspicion and contempt in the Native world for twenty-five years.” The article also questions blurbs given to Smelcer’s books by authors including Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, […]