Canada’s Giller Prize announced their shortlist on Monday: David Bezmogzis, The Betrayers (Little, Brown/Harper Canada) Frances Itani, Tell (Black Cat (forthcoming)/Harper Canada) Sean Michaels, Us Conductors (Tin House/RH Canada) Heather O’Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night (FSG/Harper Canada) Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows (McSweeney’s/Knopf Canada) Padma Viswanathan, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao (RH Canada) The Governor General’s Literary Awards also announced their shortlists Tuesday in a number of categories, with the winners to be announced on November 18. The fiction finalists include: Michael Crummey, Sweetland (Liveright/Doubleday Canada) Bill Gaston, Juliet Was a Surprise (Hamish Hamilton) Claire Holden Rothman, […]
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Once again, the naming of the Nobel Prize for Literature laureate will align perfectly with the Frankfurt Book Fair: The Swedish Academy said the new honoree will be announced on Thursday. (The Peace Prize will follow on Friday.) In other awards, the Giller Prize will cull their longlist down to a shortlist by noon today. (Then, next week we get the Booker Prize ceremony on the evening of October 14, followed by the National Book Awards finalists on October 15.) After about 7 months at Regan Arts, Michael Szczerban will join Little, Brown on October 27 as executive editor, acquiring food […]
Alan Cumming Tops November Indie Next List
Alan Cumming’s Not My Father’s Son: A Memoir is the No. 1 pick for November on the ABA’s Indie Next list. It’s among the big fall/winter releases you can preview in our latest free PL Buzz Books ebook, along with Michael Faber’s novel and Charles Blow’s memoir, also on the November list: The Book of Strange New Things, by Michel Faber Crooked River, by Valerie Geary Falling From Horses, by Molly Gloss Sometimes the Wolf, by Urban Waite The Remedy for Love, by Bill Roorbach All My Puny Sorrows, by Miriam Toews The Birds of Pandemonium: Life Among the Exotic and the […]
People, Etc.: Feldman’s New Agency, and More
Leigh Feldman has left Writers House to start her own agency, Leigh Feldman Literary, as of October 1. Prior to Writers House, she was a partner at Darhansoff, Verrill, Feldman for 20 years. Feldman says the timing “felt very right” to go out on her own. Anne Heltzel has joined Abrams as editor, primarily acquiring books for its middle grade and teen imprint, Amulet Books. She worked previously as an associate editor at Razorbill and is also a published author. Jeremy Greenfield is leaving his position as editorial director of DigitalBookWorld.com to join The Street as contributors editor, where he will help manage […]
October Picks from Amazon and Costco, December Releases, and More
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 […]