Here are the ABA’s October picks: When She Woke: A Novel, by Hillary Jordan The Orchard: A Memoir, by Theresa Weir The Dovekeepers: A Novel, by Alice Hoffman Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, by Susan Orlean A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown, by Julia Scheeres Reamde: A Novel, by Neal Stephenson What It Is Like to Go to War, by Karl Marlantes Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship, by Tom Ryan I Married You for Happiness: A Novel, by Lily Tuck The Cat’s Table: […]
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Regan McMahon has joined Common Sense Media as book editor, managing their network of book reviewers who provide “information for parents so that they can make great media choices for their families.” McMahon had been a book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle and a blogger for the paper’s parenting blog. The TNT television show Rizzoli & Isles, based on the series of books by New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, has been renewed for a third season. The 2011 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards of $25,000 each, for “women writers who demonstrate excellence and promise in the early […]
Briefs: JK Rowling Anthology Intro; USA Today Fall Books Preview; and More
JK Rowling will write the foreword to Dear Me: A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self, edited by Joseph Galliano (Atria) which will be released on October 25. In the foreword Rowling writes that she was touched by the letters’ “commonality … Nearly everyone who wrote, whether their letter is jolly or poignant, seems to have looked back on their younger selves with compassion.” A portion of the book’s proceeds will be donated to Doctors Without Borders. USA Today Speaking of USA Today, their Fall Books Preview highlights 31 titles, with special emphasis on upcoming, much-covered titles by Susan Orlean, Colson […]
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Ravi Singh will join David Davidar’s start-up Aleph Books on September 1 as publishing director. His most recent position was as publisher and editor-in-chief of Penguin India. Singh “will develop his own list” at Aleph, reporting to Davidar. Michelle Bonanno has been promoted to senior publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Robert Podrasky has joined AudioGo as senior acquisitions editor. He was previously senior manager of domestic rights at St. Martin’s. Managing director of WH Smith Travel Retail Simon Marinker will retire at the end of the year after 34 years with the company. He will continue to remain involved with the business […]
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Dan Crissman has joined The Overlook Press as editor, focusing on nonfiction. He was most recently an assistant editor at Hill and Wang. At Red Wheel Weiser/Conari Press, Julian Segal has been named sales and marketing manager. He was formerly the sales director at Heyday Books. In addition, Pat Rose has been named publicity director, moving from UC Berkeley Extension, where she was media relations manager. James Salter, 86, is the newest honoree of the Rea Award for the Short Story. Given for lifetime achievement, judges praised him as “the most stylish and grave and exact of writers.” Calvin Crosby has re-joined […]
NY Magazine’s Fall Book Picks
In this year’s edition of their fall books preview New York Magazine lists their “most anticipated” books for the season: The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach Habibi, Craig Thompson Parallel Stories, Peter Nadas The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern Lives Other Than My Own, by Emmanuel Carrère Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, by Sylvia Nasar Life Itself, by Roger Ebert The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, by Steven Pinker The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides Zone One, by Colson Whitehead 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami Blue Nights, by Joan Didion The Exegesis of Philip K. […]