Last week Wells Tower won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions fiction award for his debut story collection EVERYTHING RAVAGED, EVERYTHING BURNED.NYPL In the UK, EDItEUR has hired Graham Bell as chief data architect. He was most recently head of publishing systems at Harper UK. In the UK, Tindal Street will move their sales and distribution to Atlantic Books. The Bookseller reports that Scott Pack will take the new role of directorof digital product development at Harper UK, reporting to David Roth-Ey, while continuing to serve as publisher for what’s left of The Friday Project. And Chicken House founder […]
Awards
Awards
Barbara Kingsolver‘s THE LACUNA finally overtook Hilary Mantel’s well-lauded WOLF HALL in winning the UK’s Orange Prize. Chair of the judges Daisy Goodwin said, “We had very different tastes on the panel, but in the end we went for passion not compromise. We chose ‘The Lacuna’ because it is a book of breathtaking scale and shattering moments of poignancy.”Irene Sabatini‘s THE BOY NEXT DOOR won the Orange Award for New Writers.Site Book-of-the-Month Club’s 2009 First Fiction Award has gone to Robert Goolrick‘s A RELIABLE WIFE (Algonquin), which they call “an astonishingly accomplished and intriguing historical fiction novel in which nothing […]
July 2010 Indie Next Picks
#1 July Pick: Faithful Place: A Novel by Tana FrenchThe Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives: A Novel by Lola ShoneyinFather of the Rain: A Novel by Lily KingThe Nobodies Album: A Novel by Carolyn ParkhurstWhat Is Left the Daughter: A Novel by Howard NormanMr. Peanut: A Novel by Adam RossStill Missing: A Novel by Chevy StevensThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel by David MitchellWork Song: A Novel by Ivan DoigSavages: A Novel by Don WinslowThe Blind Contessa’s New Machine: A Novel by Carey WallaceCrashers: A Thriller by Dana HaynesThe Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay: Fiction by Beverly […]
New Yorker Annoints 20-Under-40-Willing-to-Give-Them-Unpublished-Story
The New Yorker has officially named their list of 20 fiction writers under the age of 40 to watch. As the NY Observer first reported and the NYT reminds us subtlety, this is not a purely editorially driven list, but rather a list of writers they like who were willing and able to provide them an unpublished work to run in the magazine. Eight of those stories will run in next week’s fiction issue; the remaining 12 will appear in the magazine throughout the summer. The winners are: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 32Chris Adrian, 39Daniel Alarcón, 33David Bezmozgis, 37Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, […]
Hillendbrand's New Book Set for November; Demi Moore Is Shopping; and More
Seabiscuit author Laura Hillenbrand‘s new book UNBROKEN: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption has been announced for publication November 16 by Random House. (Seabiscuit was published in 2001.) They say it “tells the story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic athlete and Army Air Force bombardier who, in 1943, crashed into the Pacific Ocean and floated for 47 days on a small raft, surviving shark attacks, a typhoon, and attack from the Japanese bomber. Captured by the Japanese military, he was sent to a series of prisoner of war camps, where he was held for more than […]
People, Etc.
At Puffin Books, Jennifer Bonnell has been promoted to executive editor. She has been with the imprint for 10 years. At Media Source, Library Journal and School and Library Journal publisher Ron Shank has been named publisher of The Horn Book as well. Ian Singer has joined the company as vp, content and business development. Most recently he was vp, data services for Bowker. Andrew Thorne was named vp, marketing. Among the winners of the Nebula Awards presented by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, was Paolo Bacigalupi for best novel, THE WINDUP GIRL (Night Shade Books).List In […]