Amazon’s best books of the month for October features Being Mortal by Atul Gawande as their Spotlight pick for the month, and Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl as the Featured Debut. Here are the other picks for month (including another Publishers Lunch Buzz Book you can sample right now, by Marlon James). The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Hilary Mantel Nora Webster, Colm Toibin The Innovators, Walter Isaacson A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James The Invisible Front, Yochi Dreazen Bad Paper, Jake Halpern The Remedy for Love, Bill Roorbach Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice Leaving Time, Jodi Picoult […]
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Dominic Myers became head of Amazon Publishing in Europe on September 2, based in Luxembourg but overseeing the UK and German publishing businesses and “launching new offices” they “expand our European publishing efforts.”Most recently non-executive director at some consumer-focused startups, he had been managing director of Waterstones in the UK up until it was sold by HMV. Amazon says that their German publishing unit has released 118 titles so far this year. At Simon & Schuster, Carolyn Connolly has been promoted to senior vice president, human resources. CEO Carolyn Reidy writes to employees: “we are fortunate to have in Carolyn a leader whose broad view […]
Awards: 5 Under 35, PEN/Bingham, and The First Kirkus Prize Finalists
On Tuesday morning, the National Book Foundation’s ninth annual list honoring 5 Under 35 was announced. This time around, all of the honorees except one — Quade — has already published in book form. (Her story collection is set for publication by Norton in 2015.) Alex Gilvarry, From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Panic in a Suitcase Phil Klay, Redeployment Kirstin Valdez Quade, Night at the Fiestas: Stories On Monday night, Shawn Vestal won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for debut fiction for Godforsaken Idaho, a collection of stories. It was published by Amazon Publishing’s Little […]
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Laura Nolan has joined Kuhn Projects as an agent. She was until recently the head of the book division for Paradigm. President of Weldon Owen Terry Newell will retire as president after more than 15 years with the company. Succeeding Newell is Roger Shaw, currently vp, publisher, reporting to Bonnier ceo Dave Freygang, who said in the announcement: “We appreciate Terry’s capable leadership through significant changes in the company’s ownership and the transformation of Weldon Owen from an independent book packager to a highly regarded publisher. Roger has been instrumental in generating long-term custom-publishing businesses with brand partners, creating innovative […]
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Emilie Polster has joined Little, Brown Children’s as executive director of marketing. She was previously senior director of integrated marketing & operations at Harper Children’s. At Picador, Andrea Rogoff has been promoted to senior publicist, while Elizabeth Bruce has been promoted to associate editor. In addition, Shannon Donnelly has joined as marketing manager. Previously she was a marketing manager at Dey Street Books. Min Lee rejoins the Penguin Random House Legal Department as vp, associate general counsel, executive director of privacy. Former University of California Press editorial director and University Press Books cofounder Sheila Levine, 65, died September 21 from ovarian […]
Awards: Piketty Leads FT/McKinsey Shortlist
The nominees for the FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year award were announced Wednesday afternoon. The winner will be named November 11. The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee (Norton) Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, by Ed Catmull (Random House) Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught up with Rupert Murdoch, by Nick Davies (Faber and Faber) House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening Again, by […]