The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced winners in 12 categories on Friday night. Fiction David Diop and Anna Moschovakis (translator), At Night All Blood Is Black (Farrar, Straus) Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (West Virginia University Press) Biography William Souder, Mad at the World (Norton) Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose Andrew O’Hagan, Mayflies (Faber & Faber) Current Interest Isabel Wilkerson, Caste (Random House) Graphic Novel/Comics Bishakh Som, Apsara Engine (Feminist Press) History Martha S. Jones, Vanguard (Basic Books) Mystery/Thriller S.A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland (Flatiron Books) Poetry Victoria Chang, Obit (Copper Canyon […]
Awards
May Library Reads
Emily Henry’s People We Meet On Vacation tops May’s Library Reads list. The rest of the picks: Arsenic and Adobo, by Mia P. Manansala The Bookshop of Second Chances, by Jackie Fraser The Guncle, by Steven Rowley The Invisible Husband of Frick Island, by Colleen Oakley Mary Jane, by Jessica Anya Blau The Newcomer, by Mary Kay Andrews Talk Bookish to Me, by Kate Bromley While Justice Sleeps, by Stacey Abrams The Woman with the Blue Star, by Pam Jenoff
People, Etc.
Doubleday is adding titles on wellness and self-help, with a new initiative led by Todd Doughty, senior vice president and deputy publisher, and Kristine Puopolo, vice president, editorial director, nonfiction. Publisher and editor-in-chief Bill Thomas writes in the announcement, “By building bestselling authors and launching landmark publications over the years, we have developed a powerhouse nonfiction platform and are now ready to expand into the wellness and self-help sphere.” Thomas notes that all Doubleday editors are invited to contribute titles, and they expect to start publishing in 2021. “For all readers looking for guidance on change from a prominent expert, […]
People, Etc.
Shelley Husband has joined the Association of American Publishers as senior vice president, government affairs and special projects. Most recently she was staff director and general counsel for the House Committee on the Judiciary from 2013 to 2019. At Hachette Livre, Nathalie Houël has been promoted to group chief financial officer. Arnaud Robert becomes group secretary general, responsible for all legal matters, compliance, insurance and institutional relations. Juliane Chevallier moves up to internal audit and internal control director. All three will report to deputy ceo Fabrice Bakhouche. Kevin Lopez becomes group chief controller, reporting to Houël. Marian Brown has been promoted […]
People, Etc.
Kathryn Deaton has been promoted to marketing coordinator at Macmillan Children’s. Miranda Paul has been promoted to agent at Erin Murphy Literary Agency. At Westwood Creative Artists, Bridgette Kam is moving from the rights department to become a literary associate, working with Jackie Kaiser and Hilary McMahon. Caroline Vassallo has been promoted to international rights associate and film/tv associate. Briar Jones has joined the company as office manager. Awards PEN America announced its 2021 award winners in a ceremony on Thursday evening. Ross Gay’s Be Holding won the $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; Asako Serizawa‘s Inheritors was awarded the PEN […]
Shipstead’s Great Circle Tops May Indie Next List
The ABA named Maggie Shipstead’s marvelous sweeping third novel Great Circle as the No. 1 pick for the May Indie Next list. Also on the list, now expanded to 24 selections, are titles from Jean Hanff Korelitz and Eileen Garvin, both excerpted and available in our Buzz Books 2021 Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the picks: Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir People We Meet on Vacation, by Emily Henry Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner The Last Thing He Told Me, by Laura Dave Secrets of Happiness, by Joan Silber Mary Jane, by Jessica Anya Blau The Woman […]