The Booker Prize announce their longlist for this year’s award, and less than a year after Paul Beatty became the first American to win the award, four more Americans are in contention, led by Colson Whitehead’s National Book Award and Pulitzer-winning The Underground Railroad, along with: Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1 (Holt/Faber & Faber) Emily Fridlund, History of Wolves (Grove/Weidenfeld & Nicolson) George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo (Random House/Bloomsbury) The longlist also features Booker winner Arundhati Roy, in contention again for The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness (Knopf; Hamish Hamilton), and previous nominees Sebastian Barry for Days Without End (Penguin/Faber & Faber); Mohsin Hamid for Exit West (Riverhead/Hamish Hamilton); […]
Awards
August Library Reads, and More
Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin tops August’s Library Reads list. Also on the list is Leah Weiss’s If The Creek Don’t Rise, featured in our August Buzz Books Monthly sampler, available for download now on Amazon, iBooks, and NetGalley. The rest of the list includes: Glass Houses, by Louise Penny How To Find Love In a Bookshop, by Veronica Henry Reincarnation Blues, by Michael Poore, Morningstar, by Ann Hood The Address, by Fiona Davis Emma In The Night, Wendy Walker The Burning Girl, by Claire Messud, The Clockwork Dynasty, Daniel Wilson In other recommendations, Stephen King tweeted this endorsement on Monday, of MY ABSOLUTE DARLING, by Gabriel Tallent: “This […]
People, Etc.
Former FBI director James Comey overcame his initial reluctance to write a book and has been meeting with publishers, ahead of an auction expected this week, run by Keith Urbahn and Matt Latimer at Javelin. Latimer tells the NYT, “It’s a book about leadership and his search for truth, informed by lessons and experiences he’s had throughout his career, including his recent experiences in the Trump administration.” The paper adds, “His aim is to write candidly about his experience serving in multiple administrations, and to use moments from his career to draw lessons about ethics, decision making and leadership.” Cherise […]
People, Etc.
Lisa Bankoff has left ICM and established her own agency, Bankoff Collaborative. She says of the move: “I grew up at ICM and had the privilege of daily working alongside some of the brightest minds in this–or any–business. What I look forward to now is the wherewithal to operate outside of a corporate culture and do an even better job of serving the interests of the many clients who have moved with me.” Knopf editor George Andreou will take over as director of the Harvard University Press in September, following the recent retirement of William P. Sisler. Andreou joined Knopf in 1990, and co-founded […]
Jackson Tops August Indie Next List
The ABA named Joshilyn Jackson’s The Almost Sisters as the No. 1 Indie Next pick for August. The rest of the list, which includes 4 titles from our Buzz Books, features: The Readymade Thief, by Augustus Rose If the Creek Don’t Rise, by Leah Weiss The Dark Net, by Benjamin Percy The Library of Light and Shadow, by M.J. Rose Girl in Snow, by Danya Kukafka Mrs. Fletcher, by Tom Perrotta Fierce Kingdom, by Gin Phillips* See What I Have Done, by Sarah Schmidt* The Half-Drowned King, by Linnea Hartsuyker* The Bedlam Stacks, by Natasha Pulley Sons and Soldiers, by Bruce Henderson The […]
Booksellers’ July Picks
Spoonbenders, by Daryl Gregory is Amazon‘s spotlight pick for July, and Goodbye, Vitamin, by Rachel Khong is their featured debut (both Indie Next selections as well). The other titles on their best of the month list are: Sting-Ray Afternoons, by Steve Rushin Afterlife, by Marcus Sakey When the English Fall, by David Williams American Fire, by Monica Hesse Who Is Rich?, by Matthew Klam What We Lose, by Zinzi Clemmons The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo, by Ian Stansel The Outer Cape, by Patrick Dacey iBooks goes their own direction, with July selections that include two titles (noted with an asterisk) […]