The Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. The winners in the book categories are: Fiction: The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown) History: The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832, by Alan Taylor (W.W. Norton) Biography: Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, by Megan Marshall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) General Nonfiction: Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, by Dan Fagin, (Bantam Books) Poetry: 3 Sections, by Vijay Seshadri (Graywolf Press) Drama: The Flick, by Annie Baker Both fiction finalists were also Publishers Lunch Buzz Books, The Son by Philipp Meyer and The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, by Bob […]
Awards
LAT Awards Honor Ozeki, Fink, Bulawayo, and Rowling; ALA’s Most Challenged
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced the winners in ten categories on Friday night. They include: Fiction Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being (Viking) First Fiction NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names (Reagan Arthur Books) Current Interest Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial (Crown) Biography Marie Arana, Bolivar: American Liberator (Simon & Schuster) Mystery/Thriller J.K. Rowling aka Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo’s Calling (Mulholland) Other winners included Ulli Lust (Graphic Novel/Comics); Christopher Clark (History); Ron Padgett (Poetry); Alan Weisman (Science & Technology); and Gene Luen Yang (YA). Next up are the Pulitzer prizes, set to be announced Monday […]
Lockhart’s WE WERE LIARS Tops May’s LibraryReads List
E. Lockhart’s YA novel WE WERE LIARS tops the May LibraryReads list. Also appearing is Laline Paull’s debut novel THE BEES, which like the Lockhart is among the 40 titles you can preview right now in our free ebook, Publishers Lunch Buzz Books 2014: Spring/Summer. (Paull’s novel made the May Indie Next list as well.) The LibraryReads list also includes: Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See Ruth Reichl, Delicious! Liz Trenow, The Forgotten Seamstress Josh Malerman, Bird Box Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, Bittersweet Molly Wizenberg, Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage Darynda Jones, Sixth Grave on the Edge […]
People, Etc.
At Scribner, Lauren Lavelle has been promoted to publicity manager, and Gwyneth Stansfield moves up to publicist. Riverhead art director Helen Yentus won the ADC Art + Craft Design Prize for her much talked about 3D-printed book design for Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea. Booktrack, which synchronizes soundtracks to ebooks, announced the completion of $3 million in Series A financing led by Sparkbox Ventures. The company is expanding into education with Booktrack Classroom, which gives students free access to soundtracked ebooks. Simon & Schuster has officially adjusted the release date for Hillary Clinton‘s still-untitled new memoir to June […]
People, Awards, Etc.
At Bloomsbury, Kathy Belden has been promoted to senior executive editor. Sara Sciuto is joining Foreword Literary as an agent, specializing in children’s books. She was previously an agent with Full Circle Literary. Ian McEwan‘s novel THE CHILDREN ACT, already announced for UK publication this fall by Jonathan Cape, will also be issued by Nan A. Talese on September 9 (listed at 192 pages). Gabriel García Márquez has been released from the hospital and is recovering at home following treatment for a lung and urinary tract infection. Philip Roth will receive Yaddo’s inaugural artist medal at a ceremony in May. […]
People, Awards, Etc.
Longtime St. Martin’s executive Matthew Baldacci will move to Scholastic as vp of marketing for the trade publishing division on April 28. Baldacci will oversee marketing and brand strategy for all trade imprints, reporting to Ellie Berger. He is currently vp, associate publisher, marketing and sales operations at SMP, where he has worked since 1998. Lauren Donovan will join Penguin Children’s as publicity manager on April 14. Most recently she was a senior publicist at Random House Children’s. Leonello Brandolini joins Hachette Livre as an international consultant and editor-at-large, reporting to Arnaud Nourry. He was most recently chairman and ceo of […]