The ABA named Bryan Washington’s novel Memorial as the No. 1 pick for November’s Indie Next list. You can sample it now in our Buzz Books Fall/Winter 2020 anthology (and you heard from his editor Laura Persiacepe in our virtual Buzz Panel presentation in May). The rest of the list: The Cold Millions, by Jess Walter We Keep the Dead Close, by Becky Cooper Where the Wild Ladies Are, by Aoko Matsuda Plain Bad Heroines, by Emily M. Danforth, Sara Lautman (Illus.) Group, by Christie Tate Moonflower Murders, by Anthony Horowitz Invisible Girl, by Lisa Jewell White Ivy, by Susie […]
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Jamia Wilson will join Random House as vice president and executive editor, starting January 4. She was most recently executive director and publisher of The Feminist Press. At Putnam, Nishtha Patel has been promoted to marketing coordinator; Nicole Biton to associate publicist; and Sydney Cohen to associate publicist. Awards The National Book Foundation announced the titles for the third and final year of its Literature for Justice program: Dionne Brand, Ossuaries Nicole R. Fleetwood, Marking Time Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag Sarah Haley, No Mercy Here Kelly Lytle Hernández, City of Inmates Assata Shakur, Assata Albert Woodfox with Leslie George, […]
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Abigail Walters, Carlos Segarra, Emily Westcott, and Alex Rice have each been promoted to agent at CAA. All four are based in New York. At Aitken Alexander Associates, Emma Paterson joins the board of directors. Chris Wellbelove becomes head of the book department. At Westwood Creative Artists, Emmy Nordstrom Higdon has joined as literary agent. They were previously at The Rights Factory. Meg Wheeler has been promoted to literary agent, Bridgette Kam to international rights associate, and Sarah-Jayne Carver to literary associate. Paloma Hernando joins Einstein Literary Management as associate agent. She was previously an intern at Writers House and a bookseller at Books […]
Douglas Stuart Has A Chance for National Book Award and Booker, As Fiction Longlisted Features New Names
In their final longlist, the National Book Awards puts in contention for their fiction award three debuts and only one author — Lydia Millet — ever recognized in the past by the organization. (She was longlisted in 2016 for Sweet Lamb of Heaven.) Following a strong presence on the nonfiction list, Norton has two novels in contention, with other titles from Tin House Books, West Virginia University Press and Grove/Atlantic. Douglas Stuart is the one author in the running for the NBA award as well as the Booker Prize, for Shuggie Bain. One title — from Rumaan Alam — does […]
National Book Awards Longlist: Nonfiction
Though presidential politics has dominated commercial frontlist publishing, the just-announced longlist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction follows a different course, though many of the books still deal with the political and social issues of the day. Norton has four titles in contention: Michelle Bowdler, Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto (Flatiron) Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans (One World) Jill Lepore, If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future (Liveright) Les Payne and Tamara Payne, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X (Liveright) Claudio Saunt, Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of […]
National Books Awards Longlists: Translated Literature and Poetry
Announcements of the National Book Award longlists continued, first with the nominees for Translated Literature on Wednesday, and then with the poetry candidates on Thursday: Shokoofeh Azar, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Europa Editions) Translated, from the Persian, by Anonymous Linda Boström Knausgård, The Helios Disaster (World Editions) Translated, from the Swedish, by Rachel Willson-Broyles Anja Kampmann, High as the Waters Rise (Catapult) Translated, from the German, by Anne Posten Jonas Hassen Khemiri, The Family Clause (FSG) Translated, from the Swedish, by Alice Menzies Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season (New Directions) Translated, from the Spanish, by Sophie Hughes Yu Miri, […]