Alice Hoffman’s new novel Faithful is the no. 1 pick for the November Library Reads List. The rest of the list includes: The Fate of the Tearling, by Erika Johansen (Harper) Night School, by Lee Child (Delacorte) When All the Girls Have Gone, by Jayne Ann Krentz (Berkley) I’ll Take You There, by Wally Lamb (Harper) Swing Time, by Zadie Smith (Penguin Press) Victoria: The Queen, by Julia Baird (Random House) Moonglow, by Michael Chabon (Harper) Normal, by Warren Ellis (FSG Originals) Orphans of the Carnival, by Carol Birch (Doubleday)
Awards
Bob Dylan Wins the Nobel Literature Prize
The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded on Thursday to singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, the first American to win the prize in more than two decades since Toni Morrison won in 1993 — and the surprise culmination of years of far-out betting speculation. The Swedish Academy commended Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,” while secretary Sara Danils later added, for those expressing surprise at their choice, that “if you look far back, 5000 years, you discover Homer and Sappho. They wrote poetic texts which were meant to be performed, and it’s the same way […]
People, Etc.
Former host of the recently-cancelled The Nightly Show (and author of I’d Rather We Got Casinos: And Other Black Thoughts) Larry Wilmore will host the National Book Awards ceremony on November 16. NBF executive director Lisa Lucas says in the announcement, “Larry Wilmore, who is hilarious, intellectual and well-loved by so many, is the perfect choice to host the awards, remind us of the cultural value of books and writers, and to welcome in new audiences.” At Gallery Books, Meagan Harris has been promoted to publicity manager. Wade Lucas has been promoted to senior agent director, Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau, where he is […]
People, Etc.
Doug Jones has been promoted to the new position of svp, deputy publisher of the Harper group, reporting to Jonathan Burnham. In addition, he will serve as publisher of Harper Perennial and Harper Paperbacks. All marketing and publicity for the Harper imprints and lines will report to Jones, who has been svp, sales for HarperCollins. Senior vice president, associate publisher Kathy Schneider is leaving the company. Sarah Bedingfield has joined Levine Greenberg Rostan as an associate agent, working with Stephanie Rostan and building a clientele of literary and upmarket commercial fiction authors. She was previously an assistant editor at Crown and Hogarth. Claire Kelley has joined Roost […]
National Book Award Nominates Whitehead, Woodson, Nguyen, DiCamillo and More
The National Book Awards moved up the announcement of their finalists to Thursday (after originally planning to release the news next Thursday) — which will keep these lists from getting overshadowed by the naming of the Nobel laureate for literature on October 13. Fiction Chris Bachelder, The Throwback Special (Norton) Paulette Jiles, News of the World (William Morrow) Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Viking) Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (Doubleday) Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn (Amistad) Nonfiction Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land (The New Press) Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning (Nation Books) Viet Thanh Nguyen, […]
Hoffman Tops November Indie Next List
Alice Hoffman’s Faithful is the ABA’s No. 1 Indie Next pick for November. The rest of the list features: The Next, by Stephanie Gangi Nicotine, by Nell Zink The Girl From Venice, by Martin Cruz Smith The German Girl, by Armando Lucas Correa Orphans of the Carnival, by Carol Birch Mister Monkey, by Francine Prose Night School, by Lee Child Cabo de Gata, by Eugen Ruge, Anthea Bell (Trans.) IQ, by Joe Ide The Terranauts, by T.C. Boyle Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History, by Sam Maggs, Sophia Foster-Dimino (Illus.) The Fall Guy, by James Lasdun Inheriting […]