David Patterson has left Holt, where he was an editor, and starts today at Foundry Literary + Media as an agent. Irish bookselling chain Hughes & Hughes declared bankruptcy. Ulster Bank appointed David Carson of Deloitte as receiver. The company blamed a variety of factors, from reduced air traffic which suppressed business at its successful airport bookstores to higher rents and the internet.Irish Times Gordon Wood won the American History Book Prize for Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, which includes the title of American Historian Laureate. Mexican author and guerrilla movement scholar Carlos Montemayor, 62, […]
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Don Fehr joins Trident Media Group as a literary agent. Most recently he was editorial director at Kaplan Publishing. Agency chairman Robert Gottlieb calls it “a wonderful opportunity to combine his extraordinary experiences in publishing, his unique relationships with authors, and his ability to create new business opportunities.” At Free Press, Leah Miller has been promoted to associate editor, reporting to editor-in-chief Dominick Anfuso and continuing to work with Dominick on his books as well as those of other editors, while also acquiring for her own list. At PublicAffairs, Tessa Shanks has been promoted to publicity manager. At Harlequin, executive […]
Barnes & Noble Discover Award Finalists
The bookseller announced the contenders for their annual Discover Awards, to be presented on March 3: FictionBarb Johnson, More of This World or Maybe Another (HarperPerennial)Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)C. E. Morgan, All the Living (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) NonfictionDave Cullen, Columbine (Twelve)Toby Lester, The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map that Gave America Its Name (Twelve)Neil White, In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir (William Morrow)Release
March 2010 Indie Next Picks
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand: A Novel by Helen Simonson (Random House, $25, 9781400068937)One Amazing Thing: A Novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Voice, $23.99, 9781401340995)Horns: A Novel by Joe Hill (Morrow, $25.99, 9780061147951)One Good Dog: A Novel by Susan Wilson (St. Martin’s, $22.99, 9780312571252)The Surrendered: A Novel by Chang-rae Lee (Riverhead, $26.95, 9781594489761)The Journal Keeper: A Memoir by Phyllis Theroux (Atlantic Monthly, $24, 9780802118974)The Dream of Perpetual Motion: A Novel by Dexter Palmer (St. Martin’s, $24.99, 9780312558154)Making Toast: A Family Story by Roger Rosenblatt (Ecco, $21.99, 9780061825934)Angelology: A Novel by Danielle Trussoni (Viking, $27.95, 9780670021475)House Rules: A Novel by Jodi Picoult […]
National Book Critics Circle Nominees Named
Fiction:Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)Marlon James, The Book of Night Women (Riverhead)Michelle Huneven, Blame (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (Holt)Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Knopf) Nonfiction:Wendy Doniger, The Hindus: An Alternative History (Penguin Press)Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books)Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Pantheon)Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remain (Random House)William T. Vollmann, Imperial (Viking) Autobiography:Diana Athill, Somewhere Towards the End (Norton)Debra Gwartney, Live Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters […]
People: Robert B. Parker, 77, Dies, Plus MWA Nominees
Author Robert B. Parker, 77, died “just sitting at his desk” at home, according to his British publisher Quercus, cited by Sarah Weinman on her blog. Parker novels scheduled for publication in 2010 include SPLIT IMAGE, the newest Jesse Stone novel (out February 23) and BLUE-EYED DEVIL, an Appaloosa novel (May 4). Blog post The Mystery Writers of America announced their 2010 Edgar awards nominees.Release