Also as previously reported by us, Anthony Marra’s debut A CONSTELLATION OF VITAL PHENOMENA is the No. 1 pick on the May Indie Next list. You can read a nice sample of Marra’s right now in our packed BUZZ BOOKS 2013: Spring/Summer free ebook, where you can also get started on four other May Indie Next picks (from Helene Wecker; Joe Hill; Therese Anne Fowler; and Benjamin Percy). The full May list: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel, by Anthony Marra The Golem and the Jinni: A Novel, by Helene Wecker NOS4A2: A Novel, by Joe Hill Jewelweed: A […]
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Lisa Vanterpool has joined Inkwell Literary Management as public relations & social media strategist. Previously she was at Blake Friedmann, where she focused on strategic social media development and publicity. At the Simon & Schuster imprint, Emily Graff has been named associate editor. Ann Hulbert will join the Atlantic as books & culture editor in June, the Observer reports, as part of an attempt “to beef up their culture coverage and help expand and re-envision their online book coverage.” Hulbert was previously an editor at Slate and the New Republic and is currently a Spencer Fellow at Columbia Journalism School. George […]
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Author Iain Banks reported in a statement that he has inoperable late-stage metastatic gall bladder cancer and is “extremely unlikely” to live for more than another year. “So it looks like my latest novel, The Quarry, will be my last…. Meanwhile my heroic publishers are doing all they can to bring the publication date of my new novel forward by as much as four months, to give me a better chance of being around when it hits the shelves.” At Little, Brown Children’s, Pam Gruber has been promoted to associate editor. At McGill-Queen’s University Press, Susan McIntosh has been promoted to associate director. Berlin-based […]
April Bookseller Picks
Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life* is Amazon’s April spotlight pick, also featured on B&N’s books of the month and sharing April Indie Next No. 1 honors. As with Amazon’s “featured debut,” Helene Wecker’s The Golem and the Jinni, you can start reading excerpts of both right now in the current spring/summer edition of our ebook sampler BUZZ BOOKS 2013–where you will find two more Amazon April recommendations, The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer and a long preview of Michael Pollan’s Cooked. (View the full list of “buzz books” here to catch previews of more books-of-the-month to be, such as Anthony Marra’s May […]
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Judges have been announced for this year’s National Book Awards, the first time that the prizes expand their judging ranks beyond exclusively writers to include other literary tastemakers. The fiction judges include Elliott Bay Book Company buyer Rick Simonson and former NYTBR editor Chip McGrath (who chairs the panel), along with Charles Baxter, Gish Jen and Rene Steinke. The nonfiction panel features former Harcourt publisher and current vp of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Andre Bernard, alongside Jabari Asim; M.G. Lord; Lauren Redniss; and Eric Sundquist. The young people’s literature panel includes Books of Wonder owner Peter Glassman and curator […]
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has promoted evp of corporate affairs Mary Cullinane to the additional new role of chief content officer. She will “spearhead the company’s content development strategy for the K-12 education market and consumer audiences” and “develop the next generation of digital solutions while continuing to leverage the company’s existing products and iconic brands.” Caroline Riordan has joined Penguin as digital business director. Most recently, she was at Trailer Park, an entertainment marketing and content agency, and prior to that she was senior manager of ebooks and business development at Hyperion. Ann Treistman is joining Countryman Press as senior editor, looking […]