The Kirkus Prize announced their finalists, with the winners to be named on November 5: Fiction Black Sunday, by Tola Rotimi Abraham (Catapult) Fiebre Tropical, by Juli Delgado Lopera (Feminist Press) The Lying Life of Adults, by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein (Europa Editions) Luster, by Raven Leilani (FSG) (Sample an excerpt now in our Buzz Books 2020 Fall/Winter anthology) Deacon King Kong, by James McBride (Riverhead) Shuggie Bain, by Douglas Stuart (Grove) Nonfiction A Furious Sky, by Eric Jay Dolin (Liveright/Norton) Fathoms, by Rebecca Giggs (Simon & Schuster) The Address Book, by Deirdre Mask (St. Martin’s) World of […]
Awards
Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Tops October Indie Next List
The ABA named V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue as its No. 1 pick for October. Also on the list is Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind, excerpted and available for download now in our Buzz Books 2020 Fall/Winter sampler. The rest of the picks: Hench, by Natalie Zina Walschots White Tears/Brown Scars, by Ruby Hamad The End of the Day, by Bill Clegg A Deadly Education, by Naomi Novik Keep Moving, by Maggie Smith Rough House, by Tina Ontiveros Stakes Is High, by Denzel Smith Black Sun, by Rebecca Roanhorse Here We Are, by Graham Smith Dear […]
People, Etc.
Nachie Marsham has joined IDW Publishing as publisher. He was previously executive editor at Disney Publishing Worldwide. Heather Gold has been promoted to editor for classics and ancient world at Yale University Press. Forthcoming Pope Francis‘ LET US DREAM will be published by Simon & Schuster on December 1, 2020, in dual English and Spanish editions. The book begins by exploring the COVID crisis and “explains why we must—and how we can—make the world safer, fairer, and healthier for all people now.” It is “the fruit of many exchanges between Pope Francis and his biographer, Austen Ivereigh, in the weeks […]
September Picks
Reese Witherspoon‘s Hello Sunshine Book Club pick for September is The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim. You can read an excerpt now in our Buzz Books 2020 Fall/Winter sampler. Jenna Bush Hager’s Today Show Read With Jenna book club chose Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom. The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman makes for an unusual Pennie’s Pick at Costco. But Asha Lemmie‘s debut novel Fifty Words for Rain is the most popular pick so far: It’s the GMA selection, Amazon’s Spotlight Pick, and Barnes & Noble’s Discover book for the month. Besides the Lemmie novel, Amazon‘s featured debut […]
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Will Murphy has joined the ghostwriting and publishing services firm Kevin Anderson & Associates as senior executive editor-at-large. He was previously executive editor at Random House. Kim Daly has been promoted to copy chief at Workman Publishing. Awards Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld‘s The Discomfort of Evening (Graywolf) won the International Booker Prize. At 29, they are the youngest author to ever win the prize. They will split the £50,000 prize with translator Michele Hutchison. Bookselling The Barnes & Noble store in Roxbury, NJ closed yesterday after 26 years, as part of a redevelopment of the mall where they were housed. […]
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Kurt Mueller is joining Inkshares as coo. He was previously coo of The Onion for eight years. Cassie Mannes Murray has been promoted to associate agent at Howland Literary. Eugene Winick, 84, longtime president of McIntosh & Otis literary agency — which he acquired in 1985 — died August 21. Gail Sheehy, 82, author of bestselling Passages, died on August 24. Audio Audible has launched a new lower-priced subscription plan: For $7.95 a month, Audible Plus actually offers less. They provide “unlimited” access to what is actually a limited catalog of approximately 11,000 titles. The regular Audible subscription thus becomes […]