Senior editor of the New York Times Book Review (and husband of novelist Amy Waldman) Alexander Star will join Farrar, Straus and Giroux as a senior editor on April 2. Before moving to the book review, Star was deputy editor of the NYT Magazine. Earlier in his career he was founding editor of the Boston Globe’s Ideas section and editor of Lingua Franca: The Review of Academic Life. At Canada’s Douglas & McIntyre, co-founder Scott McIntyre will give up his role as CEO on July 1, though he will remain actively involed and continue as chairman. Current director, operations and […]
Awards
Cheryl Strayed’s Wild Tops April Indie Next List
Here are the April picks: #1. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheyrl Strayed The Cove: A Novel, by Ron Rash The Book of Jonas: A Novel, by Stephen Dau Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d’Art, by Christopher Moore Angelmaker: A Novel, by Nick Harkaway The Gods of Gotham: A Novel, by Lyndsay Faye The Beginner’s Goodbye: A Novel, by Anne Tyler The Book of Madness and Cures: A Novel, by Regina O’Melveny The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac: A Novel, by Kris D’Agostino Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son, by Anne Lamott, […]
People, Etc.
At Chronicle Books, Todd Presley has been promoted to executive director of human resources, McEvoy Group. Greg Mortimer joins Scribner Monday in the newly-created position of online marketing manager. He was formerly marketing manager of trade paperbacks for the Random House publishing group. Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Diaz‘s new story collection THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER, “about the heartbreak and radiance that is love,” will be published by Riverhead on September 11, 2012. Diaz will appear at BEA as one of the author breakfast speakers on Tuesday, June 5, and he will do a national book tour in the fall. […]
People, Etc.
Kent D. Wolf joins Lippincott Massie McQuilkin as an agent, moving from Global Literary Management. He will continue to represent literary and commercial fiction, select young adult, narrative nonfiction, memoir, pop culture, and lifestyle books. Jen Linnan has opened her own agency, Linnan Literary Management, specializing in graphic works and illustration, in addition to select adult and children’s prose authors. Previously, Linnan was an associate agent at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, where she started in 2007 and handled international rights for several major agency clients. Perseus has added another new executive, hiring Patrick Kirk for the new role of vp, program office, “responsible […]
Awards: Writers for Writers, LAT Book Awards Nominees, and More
The Poets & Writers/Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers awards will honor David Baldacci, Kwame Dawes, and Carol Muske-Dukes and Kathryn Court is the recipient of their editor’s award, to be presented at the organization’s annual benefit dinner on March 29. The Los Angeles Times Book Awards finalists were named Tuesday morning across 10 categories. The winners will be named on April 20. Figment.com will receive their Innovator’s Award and author of the 1972 coming-of-age novel BLESS ME, ULTIMA Rudolfo Anaya will receive the Robert Kirsch Award for significant contribution to American letters. Nominees were also announced for the Canadian award for a first novel, run by Quill […]
People: Pohlman to Open Road, and More
Tina Pohlman will join Open Road on March 5 as publisher, filling the position vacated by Brendan Cahill last year, though the job itself has expanded with company’s recent hiring of multiple editorial specialists. She’ll report to ceo Jane Friedman and is charged with “lead[ing] Open Road’s editorial services, expansion into new verticals, and acquisition of new titles.” Friedman says the company has published over 2,000 titles since April 2010, and under Pohlman and the expanded editorial staff they will add “a minimum of 1,000” more titles by the end of 2012. Pohlman was formerly publisher of trade paperbacks at Crown. She […]