At FSG, Laird Gallagher has been promoted to associate editor. Julia Ringo has joined as assistant editor; previously she was editorial assistant for Knopf. Camaren Subhiyah has joined Chronicle Books as senior editor for food and lifestyle. Previously she was editor for Abrams. Hafizah Geter has joined Amazon’s Little A imprint and digital literary magazine, Day One, as editor. Previously she was editor and publicity coordinator for Poets House. Shannon Criss has joined EverAfter Romance as senior acquisitions editor. Previously she was editor for Harlequin. Richard Brown will step down as director of Georgetown University Press on October 6 to become director of University of South […]
Awards
Briefs
At Macmillan Children’s Ebony Lane has been promoted to senior rights manager, rights and permissions. Catherine Kramer has been promoted to subsidiary rights associate. Finalists were announced for the PEN Center USA Awards, in 8 categories, with the winners to be named in September. (The original version of this was a bit mangled and has been corrected/updated.) It’s been a big month for cover reveals, which have included: Turtles All the Way Down, by John Green The Rooster Bar, by John Grisham You Can’t Spell America Without Me, by Alec Baldwin and Kurt Andersen The TB12 Method, by Tom Brady And […]
September Library Reads
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng is the top pick on September’s Library Reads list. The novel is also featured in our Buzz Books 2017 Fall/Winter sampler, available for download now. (Other picks excerpted in our Fall/Winter collection are noted with asterisks.) The rest of the list includes: *Sourdough, by Robin Sloan Dear Fahrenheit 451, by Annie Spence Jane, Unlimited, by Kristin Cashore Love and Other Consolation Prizes, by Jamie Ford *The Child Finder, by Rene Denfeld The Salt Line, by Holly Goddard Jones *Hanna Who Fell From the Sky, by Christopher Meades *Caroline, by Sarah Miller George and Lizzie, […]
Tallent Tops September Indie Next List
The ABA named Gabriel Tallent’s debut novel My Absolute Darling the No. 1 Indie Next Pick for September. The rest of the list, which includes four titles excerpted in our Buzz Books Fall/Winter 2017 (noted with asterisks), features: Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng* The Child Finder, by Rene Denfeld* Young Jane Young, by Gabrielle Zevin Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward The Burning Girl, by Claire Messud The Resurrection of Joan Ashby, by Cherise Wolas* The Heart’s Invisible Furies, by John Boyne Fever, by Deon Meyer* Miss Kopp’s Midnight Confessions, by Amy Stewart The World of Tomorrow, by Brendan Mathews […]
August Bookseller Picks
For the first time we can recall all of the major monthly bookseller picks were launched bright and early on the actual first day of the month. Barnes & Noble now seems to have joined their competitors and built a proper, standing best-of-the-month feature page as well. The one consensus pick across Amazon, BN and iBooks is Tom Perrotta’s novel. Mrs. Fletcher. Winning two votes are Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo* and The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne — Adebayo is Amazon’s featured debut and Boyne is Amazon’s spotlight pick for August, and both titles makes iBooks’ fiction list as well — […]
People: Kakutani Steps Down, and More
Michiko Kakutani, the chief book critic for the New York Times, is stepping down from that position after 38 years. She says she is “moving on to focus on longer pieces about politics and culture, though I will always love and write about books.” (Vanity Fair indicates she is among those taking a voluntary buyout from the paper, which the NYT neglects to include in their own reporting.) Kakutani joined the books desk in 1983, and in 1998 she won a Pulitzer “for her passionate, intelligent writing on books and contemporary literature.” As editor Pamela Paul and editorial director Radhika Jones say […]