The second of four longlists was announced Tuesday morning — with 10 poetry collections from ten different imprints: Metaphysical Dog, by Frank Bidart Bury My Clothes, by Roger Bonair-Agard Stay, Illusion, by Lucie Brock-Broido So Recently Rent a World, New and Selected Poems: 1968-2012, by Andrei Codrescu Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, by Brenda Hillman The Big Smoke, by Adrian Matejka American Amnesiac, by Diane Raptosh Black Aperture, by Matt Rasmussen Transfer of Qualities, by Martha Ronk Incarnadine, by Mary Szybist
Awards
Booker Prize May Allow American Entries In Wednesday Announcement
The Booker Prize is set to announce several rule changes on Wednesday, and now one expected adjustment includes opening the Commonwealth-only prize up to entries from US authors in some form. A weekend story in the Sunday Times reported such a change as fact, citing unnamed organizers as saying they “increasingly believe that excluding writers from America is anachronistic” and that “US writers must be allowed to compete to ensure the award’s global reputation.” Booker literary director Ion Trewin dismissed press reports as “incomplete” but confirmed in a statement “there are going to be some changes to the rules of […]
National Book Awards Young People’s Lit Longlist; Giller Longlist
The National Book Awards began rolling out their inaugural longlists Monday via the Daily Beast, which posted the Young People’s Literature list of 10 candidates. The nominees will be announced next month: The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by K.G. Campbell A Tangle of Knots by Lisa Graff The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan Far Far Away by Tom McNeal Picture Me Gone by Meg Rosoff The Real Boy by Anne […]
Simsion Tops Librarian List, Too
The new LibraryReads initiative has announced their second monthly list of librarian favorites for October. Their No 1. pick is Graeme Simsion’s novel, also the Indie Next top selection: Rosie Project, by Graeme Simsion Longbourn, Jo Baker The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri Cartwheel, Jennifer duBois Hawthorn & Child, Keith Ridgway The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement, Nick Saul & Andrea Curtis We Are Water, Wally Lamb The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt The Tilted World, Tom Franklin & Beth Ann Fennelly Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town, Mirta Ojito You can […]
NBF Names 5 (Women) Under 35
The National Book Foundation announced their closely-watched list of 5 Under 35 authors — and “for the first time, the group of authors are all women.” Two of the featured authors are not scheduled to publish until 2014: Rona Jaffe Award winner Merritt Tierce’s Love Me Back (Doubleday, fall 2014) and Stegner Fellow Molly Antopol’s The UnAmericans (Norton, February 2014). One title does not have an announced US publisher yet: Daisy Hildyard’s Hunters in the Snow, published by Jonathan Cape in the UK this summer. The other two were both highlighted/excerpted in previous Publishers Lunch Buzz Books collections: Current Booker […]
People, Etc.: Enderlin Promoted to St. Martin’s Paperback Publisher
Jennifer Enderlin has been promoted to svp, publisher for St. Martin’s Griffin and St. Martin’s Paperbacks, the role previously held by Matthew Shear, who died last month. SMP publisher Sally Richardson said in a statement: “In the past 20 years she has been here, Jen has proven herself an astute acquirer of talent; a gifted hands-on editor; and a supportive colleague always ready to help, advise, and read for other editors. She has a keen understanding of the market and the realities of its timing and competition, which has enabled her to position and publish authors for book-by-book growth as […]