Danielle Smith has left Red Fox Literary after three years to launch her own literary agency, Lupine Grove Creative, with most of her clients set to follow her to the new agency. Playwright Kia Corthron has won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize for her debut novel The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter (Seven Stories Press). Green Apple Books music buyer and DJ Johnny Igaz, 34, who had been missing in the Oakland warehouse fire, was confirmed by the Coroner on Tuesday as among the identified victims. Forthcoming Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian will write a memoir of his […]
Awards
Goodreads Winners and More 2016 Picks
Goodreads announced the winners of their annual Choice Awards, based on online voting, across 20 categories in all. Here is a selection of the category winners, sorted by vote totals: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Parts One and Two, by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, John Tiffany (Fantasy: 128,543 votes) A Court of Mist and Fury, by Sarah J. Maas (YA Fantasy/Science Fiction: 57,776 votes) Hamilton, by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter (Nonfiction: 52,925 votes) The Hidden Oracle, by Rick Riordan (Middle Grade: 46,348 votes) Morning Star, by Pierce Brown (Science Fiction: 45,353 votes) It Ends with Us, by Colleen […]
People, Etc.
Crawford Doyle Booksellers will close its Upper East Side store on January 10 after more than 21 years in business. In an email to customers, owners Judy Crawford, John Doyle, and Thomas Talbot explained the store exceeded expectations — “our hope was to operate the store for ten years.” The operation is “not going out of business” entirely, as Doyle will “continue to sell first editions of Modern American and British Literature and other unique volumes” at his library on 21 E. 90 Street. Awards PEN America is releasing its award longlists daily over the course of this week, beginning Monday with […]
December Bookseller Picks, Too
Even with “books of the year” lists, new December titles still get their own highlights. Amazon didn’t name a “featured debut” this month, but Michael Lewis’s latest The Undoing Project is their “spotlight pick.” Their other top titles for December are: Normal, by Warren Ellis Against Empathy, by Paul Bloom Christmas Days, by Jeanette Winterson Game of Queens, by Sarah Gristwood Mincemeat, by Leonardo Lucarelli The Signals Are Talking, by Amy Webb Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, by Anne Rice Krazy, by Michael Tisserand The Seventh Plague, by James Rollins In an unusual move, Target added a second book […]
People, Etc.
Stephen Power will join Thomas Dunne Books as executive editor on December 5. Previously he was a senior editor at Amacom. Bret Kehoe has joined Sourcebooks as managing editor. Previously, he was lead editor at Questions Galore. Awards The National Book Critics Circle nominated six titles for their John Leonard Prize, given to a first book in any genre: The Mothers, by Brit Bennett The Girls, by Emma Cline Here Comes the Sun, by Nicole Dennis-Benn Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi The Nix, by Nathan Hill Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, by Max Porter
People: Stanley Forms New Firm, and More
Janklow & Nesbit partner, managing director and head of foreign rights Cullen Stanley has left to form her own firm, Cullen Stanley International Agency. Stanley has worked at J&N since 1991. The agency said in a brief statement it “is very pleased to announce that it is spinning off its foreign rights department in support of” Stanley’s company. She will handle all UK/Commonwealth and translation rights for Janklow & Nesbit. In other people news, Beth Vesel has left the Irene Goodman Literary Agency to reopen her own agency (which she ran until joining Goodman as svp in early 2014). Kathleen Schmidt […]