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 […]
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Andrew Kidd “has decided to leave agenting” and will depart Aitken Alexander at the end of October after 6 years there. The announcement says he will “pursue a new path in the book industry,” apparently to be announced in November. Eric Price has joined Melville House in the newly created role of vp, business development. Previously he was director of sales and marketing at Quercus US and before then was associate publisher and coo at Grove Atlantic. At Penguin Random House US, Akiko Iwamoto has been promoted to regional sales director, Asia, while Mike Zaug moves up to regional sales director, […]
Slate and the Whiting Foundation Team Up to Honor Second Novels
Slate and the Whiting Foundation have teamed up for the Slate/Whiting Second Novel List (which they are also calling “We Second That”). While more of an organized promotional campaign than an award per se — “akin to being retweeted by your literary idol, or finding out that the classmate you have a crush on thinks you’re cute” — the idea is to recognize five second novels published over the past five years “whose first trips through the literary-pressdustrial complex may not have been all the authors hoped for.” It was inspired by a tweet by Porochista Khakpour last June (“Can someone […]