Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Book Club pick for August is Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat. Jenna Bush Hager’s Today Show Read With Jenna book club chose two titles for the month: Ella Berman‘s The Comeback, which “to me…is the perfect summer read,” and R. Eric Thomas‘ Here for It, picked in collaboration with bookseller Noelle Santos, “to promote a book that could continue important conversations happening around the country.” Last Orders by Graham Swift is the Costco Pennie’s Pick. The NYT-PBS NewsHour Now Read This book club chose Daniel Nieh‘s Beijing Payback. Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy is Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for […]
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Alicia Kroell has been promoted to assistant editor at Catapult. At Sourcebooks, Christy Droege has been promoted to director of data. Adam Lara becomes web developer and administrator. Emily Forney and Umaima Saleem have joined BookEnds Literary Agency. Forney was most recently a publishing and editorial fellow for the LA Review of Books; Saleem was an intern at BookEnds and recipient of a We Need Diverse Books grant. James McGowan has been promoted to associate agent. Finally Forthcoming Blake Bailey‘s long-awaited biography of the late Philip Roth, written based on a collaboration agreement with Roth, will be published by Norton […]
Booker Longlist Features Mostly Americans
The Booker Prize announced its longlist, with authors from the US comprising nine of thirteen slots. Last year, authors from the US were all but omitted, with only the American-born Lucy Ellmann included. This year, eight of the selected titles are debuts (Kiley Reid’s Such a Fun Age, Brandon Taylor’s Real Life, C Pam Zhang’s How Much of These Hill Is Gold, and more) and nine are written by women. Hilary Mantel is up for her third Booker with The Mirror and the Light, the last in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. The complete list: Diane Cook, The New Wilderness Tsitsi […]
Briefs: Mary Trump’s Continuing Sales, and More
Mary Trump’s TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH sold over 1.35 million units across all formats during its first week on sale in the US, Simon & Schuster reported. Another hardcover reprint will give them 1.35 million copies in print when it delivers. That suggests continuing sales of about 400,000 units after pre-orders and the first day on sale, and an added 200,000 hardcovers in print since their first sales announcement a week ago. NPD Bookscan charted sales of over 337,000 hardcovers in the channels they measure, through July 18. Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder at Addictive Picture and producer Jay […]
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In the UK, Muna Reyal will join Chelsea Green’s UK team as head of editorial and production. Before leaving publishing for graduate school she was a food and lifestyle publisher and editorial director at Headline Home. Awards The New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Awards for 2020 have been cancelled for the first time in 68 years, “due to issues related to the ongoing pandemic.” Pamela Paul and Jennifer Krauss at the NYT noted that the judging is usually conducted at the newspaper’s offices, “under staff supervision.” Those premises remained closed to all nonessential employees, and “the judging […]
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Analieze Cervantes and Jennifer Herrington have joined Harvey Klinger as associate agents, where they will focus on YA and adult fiction. They were previously at Corvisiero Literary. Karey Circosta has been promoted to publisher and chief executive officer of Ave Maria Press, starting August 31, the first woman to serve as publisher of the press in its 155-year history. She succeeds Tom Grady, who is retiring after 15 years at the publisher. Megan Dobson will join Zondervan on July 27 as vp, publisher for Zonderkidz, reporting to Laura Minchew. She was publisher for ChristianAudio, prior to which she spent 9 […]