Awards The PEN/Faulkner Award announced its shortlist, with the winner to be named April 5: James Hannaham, Delicious Foods (Littie, Brown) Julie Iromuanya, Mr. and Mrs. Doctor (Coffee House) Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer (Grove) Elizabeth Tallent, Mendocino Fire (Harper) Luis Alberto Urrea, The Water Museum (Little, Brown) Separately, LeeAnne Walters and Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha of Flint, Michigan, will receive the 2016 PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Freedom of Expression Courage Award at the PEN Literary Gala on May 16. The Women’s Prize for Fiction announced their longlist of 20 books, with the shortlist due on April 11 and the winner […]
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Picador USA associate editor PJ Horoszko, 27, died unexpectedly March 2 in Brooklyn. Stephen Morrison, Picador Publisher, said in a statement: “PJ was a wonderful young editor on the rise with a keen eye, boundless curiosity, and fierce advocacy on behalf of his authors. He was also an absolute pleasure to work with. PJ is going to be deeply missed by all of us at Picador and our thoughts and prayers are with his family.” In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Newtown Youth & Family Services, 15 Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook CT 06482. Scholastic announced a number of […]
Debut Novel The Nest Is April No. 1 Indie Next Pick
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s debut novel The Nest tops the ABA’s April Indie Next List. (You can preview it now in our free Buzz Books 2016 ebook — along with other April picks from Faye, Chevalier, and Vestal.) The full list features: Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren Tuesday Nights in 1980, by Molly Prentiss Jane Steele, by Lyndsay Faye The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial, by Maggie Nelson The Charm Bracelet, by Viola Shipman Dodgers, by Bill Beverly Lust & Wonder, by Augusten Burroughs The Summer Before the War, by Helen Simonson Lilac Girls, by Martha Hall Kelly Fellside, by […]
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Random House Children’s Books has promoted Beverly Horowitz to senior vice president, publisher, Delacorte Press, and Mallory Loehr to svp, publisher, Random House/Golden Books, Doubleday, and Crown Books for Young Readers Group. Crown vp, publisher Phoebe Yeh and executive editor Emily Easton will now report to Loehr. Jeremie Ruby-Strauss has been promoted to executive editor at Gallery Books. At Chronicle Books, Steve Kim has been promoted to senior production designer, technical lead, and Kevin Armstrong moves up to junior production designer, digital lead. The Barnes & Noble Discover Award winners are In the Country by Mia Alvar and Ghettoside by […]
BEA Buzz Panel Titles Named
Book Expo America named the titles to be featured on the three Editors’ Buzz panels at the show in May. The adult panel will feature 4 debut novels (the most since 2011, when 5 fiction debuts were featured) and one work of nonfiction: Another Day in the Death of America, Gary Younge (Nation Books) Darktown, Thomas Mullen (37 Ink) History of Wolves, Emily Fridlund (Grove Atlantic) Little Deaths, Emma Flint (Hachette Books) The Mothers, Brit Bennett (Riverhead) The Nix, Nathan Hill (Knopf) Young Adult Caraval, Stephanie Garber (Flatiron Books) Stalking Jack the Ripper, Kerri Maniscalco (Jimmy Patterson) Rani Patel In Full Effect, Sonia Patel (Cinco Puntos Press) Spontaneous, Aaron Starmer (Dutton Children’s) […]
Awards: Windham-Campbell Prizes; PEN Literary Awards; and More
The Windham Campbell Prizes were announced, with winners including Stanley Crouch, Helen Garner, and Hilton Als (nonfiction); Tessa Hadley, C.E. Morgan, and Jerry Pinto (fiction); and Abbie Spallen, Hannah Moscovitch, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (drama). The winners will receive their $150,000 prizes at an awards ceremony held at Yale University on September 28. PEN America also announced a number of award winners in several categories, most notably Toni Morrison receiving the Saul Bellow Prize for lifetime achievement and Lisa Ko winning the Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction — with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins winning here, too, as an emerging American playwright. More winners, […]