CEO and chairman of F+W Media for the past 8 years David Nussbaum is leaving that post to become ceo of America’s Test Kitchen/Boston Common Press, starting October 14. COO and CFO Jim Ogle will serve as interim CEO of F+W as well while the board looks for a permanent replacement. Controlling owner Tinicum’s co-managing member Terence O’Toole will take on the role of chairman of the board. O’Toole says in the announcement, “We thank David for his leadership and wish him all the best in his new position. We look forward to working with Jim and the entire F+W management team to continue F+W’s transformation.” Tinicum […]
Awards
Yanagihara, Groff, Pearlman, Clegg Among National Book Award Fiction Longlist
The last of the National Book Award longlists was announced Thursday, with Hanya Yanagihara’s Booker-shortlisted A LITTLE LIFE joining the Booker-longlisted DID YOU EVER HAVE A FAMILY by Bill Clegg, Edith Pearlman’s short-story collection HONEYDEW (following up on the shortlisted collection BINOCULAR VISION), Pulitzer winner Adam Johnson’s story collection FORTUNE SMILES, and more. As will be noted elsewhere, the diverse list eschews both the conventional and commercial. The full list includes: Jesse Ball, A Cure for Suicide (Pantheon) Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family (Scout Press) Karen E. Bender, Refund (Soft Skull) Angela Flournoy, The Turner House (Houghton Mifflin […]
Coates, Smith on National Book Award Nonfiction Longlist
The National Book Awards announced their nonfiction longlist Wednesday morning, with roughly half of the ten books on the list falling into the memoir category (including the much-acclaimed and strong-selling book by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith’s chronicle of her life.) The full list includes: Cynthia Barnett, Rain: A Natural and Cultural History (Crown) Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau) Martha Hodes, Mourning Lincoln (Yale University Press) Sally Mann, Hold Still (Little, Brown) Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus (Atria) Susanna Moore, Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawai’i (FSG) Michael Paterniti, […]
Yanigihara, James, Tyler Among Booker Prize Finalists; National Book Award Poetry Longlist
The shortlist for the Booker Prize was announced Wednesday morning. Two novels by American writers — A LITTLE LIFE (Doubleday/Picador UK) by Hanya Yanagihara, and A SPOON OF BLUE THREAD by Anne Tyler (Knopf/Chatto & Windus) — were included, as were A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (Riverhead/Oneworld), Satin Island by Tom McCarthy (Knopf/Jonathan Cape), The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma (Little, Brown/One), and The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota (Knopf 2016/Picador UK). McCarthy is the only nominee who appeared previously on a Booker Prize shortlist (for C), while Obioma is tied with 2013 winner Eleanor Catton […]
NBA Longlist for Young People’s Literature
The National Book Foundation began their week of longlists with the young people’s literature candidates on Monday morning. Actual finalists in all four categories will be named at once on October 14. But it’s already clear that there will be no candidates from the children’s divisions of Penguin Random House, which did not garner a single longlist spot — while HarperCollins’ imprints have five titles in contention: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (Balzer + Bray) Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson (Candlewick Press) The Thing […]
People
Lorena Jones has rejoined Ten Speed Press as vp, publisher of a yet-to-be-named imprint focused on cooking and lifestyle books, reporting to Aaron Wehner. Jones was publisher of Ten Speed Press when she left in 2008 after fourteen years with the company and spent the past six years at Chronicle Books, where she was publishing director, food & drink and lifestyle. In her new role she will also serve as editor-at-large for Crown’s larger illustrated publishing program. In the announcement Wehner called Jones a “force in illustrated publishing, having developed and edited some of the most seminal books and authors […]