Emma Cline’s debut novel The Girls tops the ABA’s June Indie Next List. Also included are 5 of our spring Buzz Books titles — Noah Hawley’s Before the Fall, Joe Hill’s The Fireman, My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix, The Curious Charms of Doctor Pepper by Phaedra Patrick, and Emma Straub’s Modern Lovers, excerpts of which you can start reading right now in Buzz Books 2016: Spring/Summer. Grab it now, since we’ll be unveiling the fall/winter Buzz Books in time for BEA next week. The full June Indie Next list features: Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi Smoke, by Dan Vyleta Lily […]
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Trish Todd is returning to Touchstone as vp, executive editor — reporting to Susan Moldow. Todd had been at Touchstone for 15 years, up until 2010, where she was editor-in-chief, before moving over to Simon & Schuster. Moldow writes to staff, “In the more than twenty years that Trish and I have both served in various capacities at Simon & Schuster, I have always hoped that we might work directly together.” Marilynne Robinson is retiring from her position as a F. Wendell Miller Professor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop after teaching there for 25 years. Thereafter she will serve as professor emerita. Mary Rowles […]
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Mark Krotov will join n+1 as publisher, the magazine announced on Twitter. Previously he was senior editor at Melville House. Laura Dawson, recently of Bowker/Proquest, has founded Numerical Gurus, a consultancy to the book, library and information industries. Numerical Gurus has also been approved to serve as an ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier) registration agency. Jaime Green has joined Google Play Books as managing editor. Previously she was a consultant in Columbia University’s Writing Center, and also produced The Catapult’s podcast. Awards The Wellcome Book prize was given to Suzanne O’Sullivan’s It’s All in Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Illness. […]
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Carla D. Hayden, President Obama’s nominee to lead the Library of Congress, appeared for about an hour of testimony before the Senate Rules Committee, on Wednesday. The NYT reports that “all signs pointed to a nomination process proceeding as, well, normal.” The Washington Post concurred that Hayden “met no resistance from the panel of senators, who focused their attention on the library’s information technology systems.” The Times added that, “The hearing’’ most pointed questioning centered on the patent and trademark office, which has had its own technological failings in recent months, prompting some to suggest that it should be made into its […]
Nguyen, Stiles, Finnegan Among Pulitzer Winners
The Pulitzer Prizes offered a mix of surprises and expected results in their book category winners. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s much-heralded debut novel The Sympathizer won for fiction, and in a note on his website the author said: “Of course it’s wonderful for me to get this prize. But within minutes of getting it, I knew that I owed tremendous thanks to everyone who has gone before me in the great, ongoing struggle for social justice, for peace, for genuine equality, for representation for all at every level of every society.” TJ Stiles won in history for the second time (after winning […]
Awards: Groff and Coates Top Indies Choice, and More
The ABA announced the winners of the Indies Choice Awards (to be presented at BEA). The “Indie Champion” for the year is author Richard Russo: Fiction: Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff (Riverhead) Nonfiction: Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau) Debut: Kitchens of the Great Midwest, by J. Ryan Stradal (Pamela Dorman Books) Young Adult: Anna and the Swallow Man, by Gavriel Savit (Knopf Children’s) Nimona, by Noelle Stevenson (HarperTeen) Middle Reader: The Thing About Jellyfish, by Ali Benjamin (Little, Brown Children’s) Picture Book: Mother Bruce, by Ryan T. Higgins (Disney-Hyperion) On Wednesday, the Booker International Prize announced its six-title […]