The MacArthur Foundation announced their latest group of 21 Fellows (recipients of $625,000 grants), including graphic novelist Alison Bechdel, poet Terrance Hayes, translator/poet Khaled Mattawa, and playwright Samuel Hunter. The National Book Awards also announced their nonfiction longlist Wednesday. (Notably, the nominees include only one woman; the young people’s literature and poetry longlists were evenly divided between male and female authors.) Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury) John Demos, The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic (Knopf) Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and […]
Awards
Longlists: Giller Prize, National Book Award Poetry
Canada’s Giller Prize announced their longlist of twelve books: Arjun Basu, Waiting for the Man (ECW Press) David Bezmogzis, The Betrayers (Little, Brown/Harper Canada) Rivka Galchen, American Innovations (FSG/Harper Canada) Frances Itani, Tell (Black Cat (forthcoming)/Harper Canada) Jennifer Lovegrove, Watch How We Walk (ECW Press) Sean Michaels, Us Conductors (Tin House/RH Canada) Shani Mootoo, Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab (Doubleday Canada) Heather O’Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night (FSG/Harper Canada) Kathy Page, Paradise and Elsewhere (Biblioasis) Claire Holden Rothman, My October (Penguin Canada) Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows (McSweeney’s/Knopf Canada) Padma Viswanathan, The Ever After of Ashwin […]
National Book Awards Young People’s Lit Longlist
The National Book Awards began rolling out their longlists one at a time Monday via the New York Times, which posted the Young People’s Literature list of 10 candidates, including Carl Hiaasen’s SKINK – NO SURRENDER, which you can start reading an excerpt from right now in our Buzz Books Fall/Winter 2014: Young Adult ebook. The shortlist of five will be announced next month, with the winner to be named November 19. The full longlist: Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory (Viking Children’s) Gail Giles, Girls Like Us (Candlewick) Carl Hiaasen, Skink—No Surrender (Knopf Children’s) Kate Milford, Greenglass […]
People, Etc.
Simon & Schuster Australia managing director Lou Johnson has resigned from the company in order to “seek challenges in her career outside of Simon & Schuster, and potentially beyond the traditional publishing environment,” the company said in the announcement, though she will stay “for the foreseeable future” to ensure a smooth transition as a search for her successor begins. Johnson joined S&S Australia in 2008 and has been managing director for the past four years, during which time responsibility for Australia shifted from the US to Simon & Schuster UK. CEO of S&S UK and International Ian Chapman said: “Lou and her […]
Stein’s A Sudden Light Tops October Library Reads List
Garth Stein’s new novel A SUDDEN LIGHT leads the October Library Reads list, which also includes #1 Indie Next pick LEAVING TIME by Jodi Picoult. The rest of the list: As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes with Joe Layden Not My Father’s Son: A Memoir by Alan Cumming Some Luck: A Novel by Jane Smiley The Boy Who Drew Monsters: A Novel by Keith Donohue The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens Reunion: A Novel by Hannah Pittard Malice: A Mystery by Keigo Higashino Murder at the Brightwell by Ashley Weaver
People: New CEO for Andrews McMeel, and More
Andrews McMeel Universal has hired Andy Sareyan as president and CEO, effective November 3, reporting to chairman John McMeel and vice chairman Hugh Andrews. After relocating to Kansas City, Sareyan will oversee all AMU operations, comprising Universal Uclick, Andrews McMeel Publishing, and AMUSE. Sareyn was most recently president of National Journal Group and executive vice president at Atlantic Media. Prior to that he was president and chief brand officer at Meredith Corporation, after 18 years to Time Inc. in positions including president of Entertainment Weekly and founding publisher of Real Simple. McMeel says in the announcement, “His exceptional experience and understanding of the worlds […]