Gabrielle Zevin’s THE STORIED LIFE OF AJ FIKRY, already named the #1 IndieNext pick for April, now also tops the April LibraryReads list. Also appearing is Nina Stibbe’s LOVE, NINA, which is among the 40 titles you can preview right now in our free ebook, Publishers Lunch Buzz Books 2014: Spring/Summer. The LibraryReads list also includes: Emma Donoghue, Frog Music Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night Simone St. James, Silence for the Dead Donna Leon, By Its Cover Shane Kuhn, The Intern’s Handbook Colin Cotterill, The Axe Factor Akhil Sharma, Family Life Erin Duffy, On The Rocks
Awards
Awards: Women’s Prize Longlist; Windham Campbell Prizes
The UK’s Women’s Prize — once sponsored by Orange, now backed by Bailey’s — announced their 20-title longlist, which will get slimmed considerably to a six-title shortlist next month. At this stage it’s most interesting for the small set of titles for which we could not find any known US publisher yet. They are: The Dogs of Littlefield, Suzanne Berne The Strangler Vine, M.J. Carter Reasons She Goes to the Woods, Deborah Kay Davies Almost English, Charlotte Mendelson Among longlisted titles to be published later in the year in the US, there’s Evie Wyld’s April release, All The Birds, Singing, which […]
People, Awards, Etc.
Julia Kardon joins Mary Evans as a foreign rights director and agent. Previously she was an agent at Sterling Lord Literistic. At Hachette Book Group, Sophie Cottrell has been promoted to svp, corporate communications. Amanda Englander has joined Clarkson Potter and Potter Style as associate editor. Previously she was an editorial assistant at Grand Central. At Chronicle Books, Ben Laramie has been promoted to senior industrial designer; April Whitney moves up to senior publicist, Entertainment; and Lisa Tauber has been promoted to associate editor. Bloomsbury UK’s director of trade marketing and publicity Katie Bond has “taken voluntary redundancy and [is] […]
Controversies: Doniger Op-Ed, Gaiman “Disappointed” In Hugo Award Twitter Attack; Rice and Others on “Bullying” Anonymous Reviews
A number of controversies remain in the news: Author of THE HINDUS Wendy Doniger writes in an NYT op-ed about the circumstances around the withdrawal of her book in India, saying that “I was in high spirits.’ She explains: “The dormant liberal conscience of India was awakened by the stunning blow to freedom of speech that had been dealt by my publisher in giving in to the demands of the claimants, agreeing to take the book out of circulation and pulp all remaining copies.” Doniger points out: “If Mr. Batra’s intention was to keep people from reading the book, it certainly […]
PEN/Faulkner Finalists
The finalists for this year’s PEN/Faulkner Awards were announced in Washington this morning: Daniel Alarcon, AT NIGHT WE WALK IN CIRCLES (Riverhead) Percival Everett, PERCIVAL EVERETT BY VIRGIL RUSSELL (Graywolf) Karen Joy Fowler, WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES (Putnam) Joan Silber, FOOLS (Norton) Valerie Trueblood, SEARCH PARTY: Stories of Rescue (Counterpoint) The winner will be announced in early April and honored at a ceremony at the Folger Library on May 10.
Amazon’s March Picks, and Kindle First Tops their List Again
Amazon’s March books of the month were posted over the weekend, with Phil Klay’s Redeployment as their Spotlight pick, and Nickolas Butler’s Shotgun Lovesons as the featured debut. Their selections include Atavist Books launch title, the digital-only novella by Karen Russell, Sleep Donation (it releases towards the end of the month, on March 25). The rest of the March picks: Boy, Snow, Bird, Helen Oyeyemi Blood Will Out, Walter Kirn Savage Harvest, Carl Hoffman Bark: Stories, Lorrie Moore Sleep Donation, Karen Russell All Our Names, Dinaw Mengestu The Naked Future, Patrick Tucker The Cairo Affair, Olen Steinhauer The Enchanted, Rene Denfeld Speaking of Amazon, before you read another spate […]