ICM has hired Nick Harris from Mosaic (which he joined last November) as co-head of their book-to-film department, alongside the newly-promoted Josie Freedman, who has been at ICM since 2001. Harris was a partner at Rabineau Wachter Sanford Harris, and prior to that worked at AP Watt. Borders has named Scott Henry as their new evp, chief financial officer, effective today, filling the post vacated by Mark Bierley in August. Henry, 45, has been president of business and financial consulting services firm S.D. Henry Strategic Services, after five years as cfo of Las Vegas Sands Corp. Barnes & Noble has […]
Awards
NBA Nominees: The Reviews So Far
We checked our Reviews database at PM to see what kind of full-length reviews the National Book Award fiction and nominees have received so far. Patti Smith leads the pack with 14 reviews, and Peter Carey is the only who is close, though Nicole Krauss will surely garner more reviews soon. Just click to see all the reviews of a given title: FictionPeter Carey’s Parrot & Olivier In America (12)Nicole Krauss’s Great House (5, so far) Plus the Publishers Lunch First Look ReviewLionel Shriver’s So Much for That (13)Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel (3) NonfictionBarbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy: Ordinary […]
People, Etc.: Janklow Hires NYT’s Julie Just, Phaidon’s New CEO, and More
Children’s book editor of the New York Times Book Review Julie Just will join Janklow & Nesbit as an agent in November. Mort Janklow says in the announcement, “It has been our intention for some time to expand the range of agency services we offer to include in a major way children’s and young adult literature.” Lynn Nesbit calls Just “the ideal person to spearhead this new effort.” Phaidon Press, which recently hired Amanda Ridout as managing director, has now appointed David Davies as chief executive officer, starting November 29 and based in London. He is currently managing director at […]
National Book Award Nominees Avoid the Predictable, Give Carey A Second Shot
The National Book Foundation announced their award nominees this morning, with novelist Peter Carey getting another chance at honors after coming up short last night in his quest for a third Booker win. Coffee House Press and McPherson claim two of the fiction nominations, likely to fuel rights and/or paperback interest. (Yamashita’s book is a paperback original; Gordon’s book has not been published yet.) Last year it was the bestselling books that won the two biggest categories, Colum McCann’s LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN for fiction and T. J. Stiles’ THE FIRST TYCOON: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt for […]
Plus, The Governor General Awards Nominees
Also just announced this morning was the shortlist for Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards. Booker-shortlisted Emma Donoghue is a repeat nominee, and Kathleen Winter is also nominated for Canada’s Giller Prize. (Grove/Atlantic has Winter’s Annabel scheduled for a January trade paperback release through Black Cat; the other three novels do not currently has US pub dates or deals listed.) In the biggest categories, the nominees are: FictionSandra Birdsell, Waiting for JoeEmma Donoghue, RoomDrew Hayden Taylor, Motorcycles and SweetgrassDianne Warren, Cool WaterKathleen Winter, Annabel Non-fictionElizabeth Abbot, A History of MarriageIan Brown, The Boy in the MoonAllan Casey, LakelandKaren Connelly, Burmese LessonsJohn […]
Jacobson’s The Finkler Question Wins Booker
The Booker Prize returned to its traditional ways (in which the favorite always loses) as three-time nominee Howard Jacobson finally was a winner for THE FINKLER QUESTION. Bloomsbury publishes the book in both the UK and the US (which picked up rights only after the book was shortlisted for the prize, and officially published it yesterday). In the UK they have announced a new 50,000-copy printing. The Bookseller says that Nielsen BookScan UK had recorded sales of 8,300 copies prior to the award. The US edition ranked No. 72 at Amazon and No. 30 at BN.com when the winner was […]