Sara Gruen’s new novel At The Water’s Edge is the No. 1 pick for the April Library Reads list. The list also includes A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley, an excerpt of which you can start reading right now in our Buzz Books 2015: Spring/Summer ebook. The rest of the list includes: The Royal We, Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan (Grand Central) The Dream Lover, Elizabeth Berg (Random House) Still The One, Jill Shalvis (Berkley) Inside The O’Briens, Lisa Genova (Gallery) House of Echoes, Brendan Duffy (Ballantine) The Precious One, Marisa de los Santos (William Morrow) The Bone Tree, Greg […]
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Awards: Sharma Wins Folio; Booker International Shortlist; and More
Akhil Sharma has won the Folio Prize for his novel FAMILY LIFE (Norton). In announcing the $60,000 prize, chair of the judging committee William Fiennes commented: “From a shortlist of which we are enormously proud, Akhil Sharma’s lucid, compassionate, quietly funny account of one family’s life across continents and cultures, emerged as our winner. ‘Family Life’ is a masterful novel of distilled complexity: about catastrophe and survival; attachment and independence; the tension between selfishness and responsibility. We loved its deceptive simplicity and rare warmth. More than a decade in the writing, this is a work of art that expands with […]
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Jenny Todd has been appointed publisher and managing director at Canongate, with longtime publisher Jaime Byng moving up to chief executive, which will allow him a “greater focus on developing new businesses”. Of Todd, promoted from associate publisher, Byng said in a statement: [She] has played an instrumental role in the growth and development of Canongate. She brings to the role considerable skill and experience.” With respect to the restructure, Byng added: “Not only do I believe that the new structure will make us more efficient as an organisation but it will harness more fully the creativity of the team […]
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Christian Lorentzen will join New York Magazine and Vulture.com as book critic, writing book reviews as well as “longer assessments and essays on books and writers and shorter commentary on a wide range of literary matters.” Lorentzen will start writing for the magazine in April and increase his output in June when he returns to New York from London. He was most recently senior editor at the London Review of Books, where he will remain an editor-at-large. Literary agent Maria Ribas has joined Stonesong, representing nonfiction in the areas of cooking, home, health/diet, personal development, business, psychology, and memoir. Ribas had […]
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Stephanie Davis joins the Crown Publishing Group as marketing manager, Clarkson Potter and Harmony. Previously she was assistant marketing manager at St. Martin’s. Jandra Sutton has joined PR by the Book as digital media coordinator. Previously, she was marketing director with Turner Publishing Company. Rachael Small has joined Europa Editions as publicist. Previously she was a translation quality manager and before then, publicity assistant at the Book Department of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. Erin Young has joined Dystel & Goderich Literary Management’s West Coast office as assistant to Michael Bourret after working as an editor at two […]
Overlooked NBA Authors Do Well At NBCC Awards
The National Book Critics Circle awards were presented Thursday night, and four authors who were nominated for (but did not win) National Book Awards won NBCC honors: Fiction Marilynne Robinson, Lila (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Autobiography Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury) Biography John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (Norton) Poetry Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf) The two additional awards went to: Criticism Ellen Willis, The Essential Ellen Willis, edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz (University of Minnesota Press) Nonfiction David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation […]