Moby Lives posted this photo showing a copy of Jonathan Franzen’s new novel with an “Oprah’s Book Club: 2010 Selection” sticker on the jacket. Which is consistent with first Indigo and then Amazon.ca taking down their listings for the new Oprah selection’s ISBN after our story noting that FSG does not have rights to FREEDOM in Canada (Harper Canada does).For what it’s worth, Franzen is scheduled to appear at Book People in Austin, TX the evening of September 17 (the day Oprah makes her announcement.)
Awards
People, Etc.
St. Martin’s has announced a new short-story writing contest, to be judged by Jeffrey Archer. The winner will be offered a publishing contract, with the story of 5,000 words or less issued as an ebook.Jeffrey Archer Presents Candlewick Press is partnering on a TOON Books imprint in October. They will takeover TOON’s eleven-title backlist and aim to publish four to five new books a year starting next spring. TOON was launched in 2008 TOON Books by New Yorker art editor and RAW publisher Françoise Mouly. Flat World Knowledge his hired David Littlehale for the new position of vp of institutional […]
Carey and Levy Lead Booker Shortlist
The Booker Prize is down to six shortlisted titles, and the winner will be named October 12. In the meantime, US rights to Howard Jacobson’s book have been picked up Bloomsbury USA, which will publish on September 23. Until then, the UK “export edition” ebook is available here from Amazon only.: Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber and Faber)Emma Donoghue, Room (Picador)Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room (Atlantic Books)Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury)Andrea Levy, The Long Song (Headline Review)Tom McCarthy, C (Jonathan Cape) In other awards, China Miéville’s The City & The City and Paolo Bacigalupi’s The […]
Oprah-Watch Revised
Following yesterday’s analysis of potential clues from online metadata about Oprah Winfrey’s forthcoming book club selection, we note that subsequent to our story, Indigo removed their posted listing of the title and now says “unfortunately, the page you are looking for is unavailable or no longer exists.”
Oprah Will Resume Book Club On September 17–And No, It’s Not FREEDOM
Just under a year after selecting Uwem Akpan’s SAY YOU’RE ONE OF THEM, Oprah Winfrey is ready to pick another book for her audience to read. Newtonville Books blogged that they were notified by a Macmillan sales rep of the impending announcement, to air on September 17, when the Oprah-stickered edition will release. The selection is hardcover with a list price of $28 (confirmed by online bookselling sites, which also list the title for blind pre-order). Amazon is not taking blind pre-orders for a Kindle edition though–at least not yet. There was some speculation online that it could be Jonathan […]
20 Books for Fall
NY Magazine also lists their 20 “most anticipated” fall books: 1. Our Tragic Universe, by Scarlett Thomas2. Zero History, by William Gibson3. The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women, by James Ellroy4. Ape House, by Sara Gruen5. C, by Tom McCarthy6. Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl, by Donald Sturrock7. Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, by Danielle Evans8. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, trans. Lydia Davis9. Untitled on the Obama Administration, by Bob Woodward10. By Nightfall, by Michael Cunningham11. Nemesis, by Philip Roth12. Great House, by Nicole Krauss13. Mourning Diary, by Roland Barthes14. How to Read the […]