The Swedish Academy named American poet Louise Glück as the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature. She becomes the 16th woman to win the prize. The Academy says Glück, 77, was chosen “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” Glück has published 12 books of poetry, as well as several collections of essays. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for The Wild Iris (Ecco) — her most commercially successful book in the US — and the National Book Award in 2014 for Faithful and Virtuous Night (FSG) among other honors. She was […]
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Beth Meacham, executive editor at Tor/Tom Doherty Associates will retire at the end of the year. She joined Tor as editor-in-chief in 1984. President and publisher Fritz Foy writes, “We’re delighted that Beth will continue to edit a small number of projects for us on a consulting basis. But most of her list will be moving to other editors as she prepares for her retirement.” Rob Dawson has launched Books to Market Canada, providing sales, marketing and distribution solutions for publishers. He was previously managing director at Georgetown Publications. Bennet Johnson has joined Sourcebooks as marketing specialist. Robin Robertson, associate […]
NBA Nominees Feature New Names, Broad Selection of Publishers
The National Book Awards announced their finalists, with winners to be named on November 18. Everyone who wins this year will be a first-time honoree, since none of the authors has been a finalist previously. Douglas Stuart remains in contention for both the National Book Award for fiction as well as the Booker Prize. The biggest publishers are thoroughly under-represented this year, publishing only two of the fiction nominees, one of the nonfiction candidates, none of the poetry finalists, and two of the translated literature titles. Fiction Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind (Ecco) Lydia Millet, A Children’s Bible (Norton) […]
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People Andrew DeSio has joined Dey: Ideas + Influence as their director, books. Most recently he was at Fortier Public Relations. Picks Jenna Bush Hager’s Today Show Read With Jenna book club named Rumaan Alam‘s Leave the World Behind as its pick this month. Barnes & Noble also chose the book as its October National Book Club selection. On the National Book Award’s longlist for fiction, as noted previously the book was featured earlier this year in our Buzz Books 2020 Fall/Winter sampler with an early excerpt. Forthcoming Ethan Hawke‘s novel A BRIGHT RAY OF DARKNESS, his fifth book, will be published […]
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The Association of American Publishers (AAP) board unanimously elected vice chair and Wiley ceo Brian Napack as their new chair, effective September 25, taking over from John Sargent, who resigned in conjunction with his pending departure from Macmillan. A new vice chair will be elected separately. Additionally, new Macmillan trade ceo Don Weisberg has taken Sargent’s board seat, Simon & Schuster ceo Jonathan Karp has filled the late Carolyn Reidy’s seat, and Norton chair and president Julia Reidhead joined the board after being voted into an at-large seat in June. Powell’s Books has hired business consultant Patrick Bassett as their […]
October Picks
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig is the GMA Book Club pick for October. Sample an excerpt now in our Buzz Books 2020 Fall/Winter anthology. The Stationary Shop by Marjan Kamali is the Pennie’s Pick at Costco. Paul Tough‘s Helping Children Succeed is the NYT-PBS NewsHour Now Read Book Club Pick The Searcher by Tana French is Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for October and Group by Christie Tate is their featured debut. The rest of the list: Dear Child, by Romy Hausman The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, V.E. Schwab The Zealot and the Emancipator, by H.W. Brands The Once and […]