Matt Mullin has joined Ingram’s Lightning Source as key accounts sales manager in their New York office. Previously, he was at The Reading Room and before that at Barnes & Noble. Rachel Poloski has joined Random House Children’s as editor. Previously she was an associate editor for Disney Publishing’s Marvel Press. Alexis Kirschbaum will move to Bloomsbury UK on September 13 as publishing director, reporting to Alexandra Pringle. She is currently editorial director at Penguin Press UK. At Harlequin UK, Lucy Gough has been promoted to assistant managing editor. “Leading literary figure of Southern California” Carolyn See, 82, died Wednesday in […]
Awards
Penny’s A Great Reckoning Tops August Library Reads List
Louise Penny’s newest mystery A Great Reckoning is the No. 1 pick for the August Library Reads list. You can start reading an excerpt of another novel on the list, The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena, right now at Buzz Books 2016: Fall/Winter. The rest of the list features: Watching Edie, by Camilla Way The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living, by Louise Miller The Dollhouse, by Fiona Davis The Book That Matters Most, by Ann Hood Arrowood, by Laura McHugh Behind Closed Doors, by B.A. Paris First Star I See Tonight, by Susan Elizabeth Phillips Die Like An Eagle, […]
A Big Shift for the NEA’s Big Read: Contemporary Books
After beginning with “obvious American classics” a decade ago, the NEA’s Big Read program is marking their anniversary with “a new focus…on contemporary authors and books written since the founding of the NEA 50 years ago.” The new booklist available for community programming starting in fall 2017 features 28 titles, 13 of which are new to the program. The NEA says the revised selection “represents a range of ages and ethnicities, with more than half of the books by female authors. The list also features a range of genres, including novels, short stories, memoirs, poetry, and books in translation.” They add, “These works were […]
People: Senate Stalls Vote on Hayden’s LOC Nomination, and More
After winning unanimous support from the Senate Rules Committee, Carla Hayden‘s nomination to serve as Librarian of Congress has been held up by one or more Republicans. The Washington Post notes, “There has been no public explanation for the five-week delay, although privately some conservatives have been critical of the positions Hayden took as head of the American Library Association, including her opposition to a federal law requiring libraries to install Internet filters to block pornography. Others decry her lack of academic heft, saying the position is a scholarly one.” (She has a PhD from the University of Chicago, however, and […]
People, Etc.
Deb Brody will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as editorial director for lifestyle & culinary on July 18. Previously she was executive editor at William Morrow. Michael Strother has joined Harlequin Teen as editor. Previously he was an editor at Simon Pulse. Jermey Matthews will join MIT Press as acquisitions editor, physical sciences, engineering and math. Previously he was books editor at Physics Today. Patricia Kelly has been appointed general manager of Lonely Planet’s Oakland, CA location, in addition to her current role as director of sales, Americas. Cliff Manko has joined Beacon Press as chief financial officer. He was svp finance […]
More July Bookseller Picks
iBooks selected recommended July titles (show here for fiction, nonfiction and YA): Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty Underground Airlines, Ben Winters Heroes of the Frontier, Dave Eggers The Light of Paris, Eleanor Brown Jonathan Unleashed, Meg Rosoff You’ll Grow Out of It, Jessi Klein Tong Wars, Scott Seligman Bobby Kennedy, Larry Tye My Father Before Me, Chris Forhan How to Be a Person in the World, Heather Havrilesky The Shattered Lens, Brandon Sanderson Signs of You, Emily France The Crimson Skew, S.E. Grove The Awakening of Ren Crown, Anne Zoelle A World Without You, Beth Revis And Barnes & Noble‘s top 10 fiction list for July […]