Norton will have a “greatly expanded and revised edition” of recent winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics Paul Krugman’s 1999 book THE RETURN OF DEPRESSION ECONOMICS AND THE CRISIS OF 2008 ready to publish in early December 2008. The original book looked at economic crises in Asia and Latin America, but the new edition “will show how depression economics has come to America” and indicate “the steps that must be taken to contain the crisis and turn around a world economy sliding into a deep recession.” A paperback version of his most recent book, The Conscience of a Liberal, […]
Awards
UK Looks for Books Worth Talking About
In advance of next March’s World Book Day, the organizers have posted a list of 50 UK books and invited readers to vote for “the best book to talk about.” A top ten will be culled in January, the winner receives both promotion and a cash prize.Telegraph item
Starbucks Will Co-Publish New Pick with FSG
Starbucks has picked the book they will feature in their stores this holiday season–Daren Simkin’s THE TRAVELER, illustrated by brother Daniel Simkin–and for the first time, the coffee company is co-publishing the book instead of just buying copies from the publisher. Their partner is Farrar, Straus, which has had the book in their catalog, though without noting the Starbucks association, which was saved for the announcement. But Starbucks got the first look at the book, and FSG was enlisted as a partner thereafter. Bill Clegg at the William Morris Agency, which helps scout properties for Starbucks, says that the agency […]
Business Winner: When Markets Collide
Mohamed El-Erian won the FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award for WHEN MARKETS COLLIDE: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change, “a timely alert to the fundamental changes taking place in today’s global economic and financial systems – and a call to action for investors who may fall victim to misinterpreting important signals.” CEO of Goldman Sachs Lloyd Blankfein says the book “provides invaluable context for the global financial crisis and does so in an extremely accessible and compelling way.” FT editor Lionel Barber says the fourth winner of their award “is lucid and prescient in […]
National Book Award Finalists
Fiction nominees range from the 81-year-old Peter Matthiessen for a book the AP calls “an 890-page revision of a trilogy of novels he released in the 1990s” to debut novels from Rachel Kushner and Salvatore Scibona. The winners will be named November 19: FictionAleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project (Riverhead)Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba (Scribner)Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country (Modern Library)Marilynne Robinson, Home (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)Salvatore Scibona, The End (Graywolf Press) NonfictionDrew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Alfred A. Knopf)Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton & Company)Jane Mayer, The […]
Booker Bulletin: Adiga's White Tiger Wins
Per the traditional pattern, the favorite never wins. Debut novelist Aravind Adiga’s THE WHITE TIGER (William Morris’s big book at the London Book Fair in 2007 if you’ll recall) won the Booker Prize, just announced in London. Published by Atlantic Books in the UK (their first Booker victory) and just released in trade paperback by Free Press in the US, Adiga prevailed over bettor’s favorite, Sebastian Barry’s THE SECRET SCRIPTURE. It’s the third debut novel to win the prize. Chair of the judges Michael Portillo remarked, “The novel undertakes the extraordinarily difficult task of gaining and holding the reader’s sympathy […]