Kevin Doughten will join Crown as senior editor on September 24, focusing on non-fiction. He was most recently an editor at Viking. Olga Rogozina has joined the Van Lear Agency in Moscow as both a literary agent and contracts manager. Previously she was foreign rights manager at Astrel. Founder of Chicago’s 10-store Beck’s Bookstores, Bob Beck, 91, died last week at Northwestern Hospital. “Today, a marketing major would say he had a business plan. Back then, it was called an angle. He sold books at Beck’s for less than the college bookstores charged, and he paid more when the used […]
Awards
Business Book Nominees; September Picks
The shortlist has been announced for the FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (Crown Business, Profile) The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust, John Coates (The Penguin Press, Fourth Estate) Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, Steve Coll (The Penguin Press, Allen Lane) Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster; Little Brown UK) What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits Of Markets, Michael J. Sandel (FSG, Allen Lane) Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence, William […]
Mantel, Self Tipped As Favorites on Booker Shortlist
The Booker Prize shortlist was announced Tuesday, with Hilary Mantel’s BRING UP THE BODIES and Will Self’s UMBRELLA quickly tipped as early favorites to win the award. Every year we think to ourselves, this is the last time you’ll see books vying for or winning a major international award that aren’t instantly available globally, at least in digital form… Half of the shortlist comprises small press titles with varying availability in the US; we did our best to clarify status as much as we could before today’s publication. Deborah Levy’s SWIMMING FOR HOME, for example, will be published imminently as […]
People, Awards, Etc.
On Friday, Library Journal abruptly announced the immediate departure of editor-in-chief Francine Fialkoff, after 15 years of running the magazine. Executive editor Michael Kelley has taken over as interim editor-in-chief. “Fialkoff plans to stay in the library world.” At Harlequin, Emily Rodmell has been promoted to editor at the Love Inspired imprint. Ellen Gerstein will join Grand Central as vp, director of marketing, starting September 10 and reporting directly to Jamie Raab. She was the director of marketing in the professional/trade division at Wiley for almost two decades. Alice Rahaeuser has joined Random House Children’s as production associate, reporting to Timothy Terhune. Most […]
Schwalbe’s THE END OF YOUR LIFE BOOK CLUB Tops October Indie Next List; Guardian First Book Nominees
The ABA has announced its October Indie Next List, which includes three titles — SUTTON by JR Moehringer, IN SUNLIGHT AND IN SHADOW by Mark Helprin, and LIVE BY NIGHT by Dennis Lehane — among the featured excerpts in our popular free ebook anthology of selections from over 30 big forthcoming books, BEA BUZZ BOOKS. Most of the excerpted titles release later in the year (and into next January), so if you haven’t checked it out yet, it’s as relevant now as it was when we released it before BEA. Pick up the “trade version” at the link above, or […]
PEN Honorees Include Doctorow, Gleick, Hitchens and Massie
The PEN American Center announced the winners (and runners-up) for their wealth of 2012 literary prizes and translation grants, comprising 18 awards in all. The roster includes two new prizes (asterisked) below, and comprises almost $175,000 for the honored writers. Among the winners: PEN/Bellwether Prize (unpublished socially-engaged fiction)*: Susan Nussbaum, Good Kings Bad Kings PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (debut): Vanessa Veselka, Zazen (Red Lemonade) PEN/Saul Bellow (fiction achievement): E. L. Doctorow PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award: James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Pantheon Books) PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award (essay collection): Christopher Hitchens, Arguably (Twelve) PEN/ESPN Award […]