The “driving force” behind Scotland’s Freight Books, co-founder and director Adrian Searle, has left the company. He said: “Following differences over strategic direction, and after six years as publisher at Freight Books, and eight years as a director of Freight Design, with much regret I have decided to leave the business I own jointly and resign as a company director to pursue other interests.” Lena Khidritskaya Little has joined Little, Brown as assistant director of publicity; previously, she was with NatGeo Books. John Glynn has joined Hanover Square Press as editor. Previously, he was associate editor at Scribner. Author of bestseller Zen […]
Awards
LA Times Book Prize Winners: Haslett, Hill, Alexievich, and More
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced the winners in eleven categories on Saturday night, including the new Christopher Isherwood Prize for autobiographical prose. The winners include: Fiction Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown) The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Nathan Hill, The Nix (Knopf) Current Interest Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Bela Shayevich, Secondhand Time (Random House) Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose Wesley Lowery, They Can’t Kill Us All (Little, Brown) Poetry Rosmarie Waldrop, Gap Gardening (New Directions) The other winners were: Volker Ullrich (Biography); Nick Drnaso (Graphic Novel/Comics); Benjamin Madley (History); Bill Beverly (Mystery/Thriller); Luke Dittrich (Science and Technology); Frances Hardinge (Young […]
People, Etc.
Bethany Buck has joined Bloomsbury Children’s as editorial director. She was editorial director at Skyhorse’s children’s imprint Sky Pony Press. Harper Christian announced three leadership changes to help “aggressively pursue additional content sources.” Daisy Blackwell Hutton has been promoted to vice president and publisher for the nonfiction W Publishing Group imprint. Amanda Bostic will become the new fiction publisher, while Matt Baugher will take on the new role of senior vice president of author and partnership development. Quiera Hall has joined Open Road as business development operations associate, reporting to Caroline Ziegler. Baker Literary Scouting has been appointed US scout for Beijing […]
Whitehead, Thompson, Desmond Among Pulitzer Winners
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday, as Colson Whitehead won the fiction prize for his much celebrated novel The Underground Railroad, which also won the National Book Award and was clearly the consensus “book of the year.” Similarly, Matthew Desmond, a winner of National Book Critics Circle Award this year, took the general nonfiction award for his widely praised Evicted; while Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water, an NBA nominee, won for history. The complete winners and finalists across all of the book categories are: Fiction Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (Doubleday) Finalists Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown) C. E. Morgan, The Sport of Kings (FSG) History […]
People, Etc.
At Penguin Press, William Heyward and Christopher Richards have both been promoted to editor. Laura Crockett has been promoted to associate agent at TriadaUS. At Sourcebooks, Kelly Lawler has being promoted to associate creative director, as Brittany Vibbert moves up to art director. Duquesne University is determined to close its well-regarded press after 90 years of operations, having rejected a budget proposal that would have trimmed the press’s operating deficit by two-thirds. The Association of America University Presses persists in trying to rally support for the press, and joins others in contrasting the low-six-figure deficit at the press with the “unveiling of plans to invest […]
Lennon Tops May Indie Next List
The May Indie Next List has named J. Robert Lennon’s novel Broken River their No. 1 pick. The list features a number of titles excerpted in our 2017 Buzz Books: Spring/Summer, including: The Radium Girls, by Kate Moore; Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig; Salt Houses, by Hala Alyan; and The Garden of Small Beginnings, by Abbi Waxman. The rest of the list features: Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman Anything Is Possible, by Elizabeth Strout Beartown, by Fredrik Backman The Standard Grand, by Jay Baron Nicorvo The Baker’s Secret, by Stephen P. Kiernan […]