Dana Li has joined Catapult/Counterpoint as designer. She was previously at Penguin Children’s. Deirdre Bair, 84, who won the 1981 National Book Award for Samuel Beckett: A Biography, died on Friday in her home in New Haven, CT of heart failure. Awards The UK Women’s Prize announced its shortlist. (As a reminder, they postponed naming the winner until until September 9.): Dominicana, by Angie Cruz (Flatiron/John Murray) Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo (Grove/Hamish Hamilton) A Thousand Ships, by Natalie Haynes (Mantle) The Mirror and the Light, by Hilary Mantel (Holt/Fourth Estate) Hamnet, by Maggie O’ Farrell (Knopf/Headline) Weather, by Jenny […]
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Hannah Allaman has joined Delacorte as associate editor. She was previously assistant editor at Disney-Hyperion. At the University of Texas Press, Robert Devens has been promoted from assistant director to director. Since joining the press in 2013, they say Devens “led the editorial department toward greater successes in its many core areas — from the establishment of new series in fields ranging from Latinx studies to film studies, to more extensive general interest offerings in areas such as biography and music.” Awards The International Booker Prize has postponed the announcement of this year’s winner, set for May 19. They are […]
Lerner, Serpell and James Among LA Times Book Prize Winners
The LA Times announced the winners of their 2019 book prizes on Friday: Fiction Ben Lerner, The Topeka School Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine Biography George Packer, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century Current Interest Emily Bazelon, Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration History […]
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Robb Pearlman has joined Smart Pop Books as editor-in-chief. He was previously associate publisher at Rizzoli. Chilean author Luis Sepulveda, who lived in Spain after being exiled by Augusto Pinochet in the 1980s, died on Thursday from Covid-19. He first contracted the disease at the Correntes d’Escritas festival in February. Awards Christy Lefteri’s The Beekeeper of Aleppo won the Aspen Words Literary Prize. Cancelled Bouchercon 2020, planned for October 15-18 in Sacramento has been cancelled “out of an abundance of caution and concern for the health and safety of our community.” The organizers write in a statement, “We have no […]
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At Canongate, Andrea Joyce has stepped down as rights director after 13 years with the company. Jessica Neale succeeds her as rights and contracts director. Forthcoming Penguin Random House will publish a digital cookbook on May 5 to benefit restaurants and their workers, priced at $5.99, FAMILY MEAL: Recipes from Our Community. It features over 40 recipes by chefs and home cooks who publish with PRH imprint, covering what they are cooking and drinking at home right now, and all proceeds will benefit the RWCF COVID 19 Crisis Relief Fund. It includes a foreword from Restaurant Workers’ Community Fund co-founder […]
Wilsner’s Something to Talk About Tops May Library Reads
Meryl Wilsner’s Something to Talk About is the top pick for May’s Library Reads list. The rest of the picks: All Adults Here, by Emma Straub Beach Read, by Emily Henry Big Summer, by Jennifer Weiner A Good Marriage, by Kimberly McCreight Happy & You Know It, by Laura Hankin The Jane Austen Society, by Natalie Jenner Network Effect, by Martha Wells Recipe for Persuasion, by Sonali Dev The Wife Stalker, by Liv Constantine