Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for May is Mikel Jollett’s Hollywood Park (you can sample an excerpt now in Buzz Books 2020 Spring/Summer) and its featured debut is Natalie Jenner’s The Jane Austen Society. The rest of the picks: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, by Suzanne Collins Almond, by Won-Pyung Sohn All Adults Here, by Emma Straub Dirt, by Bill Buford Boys of Alabama, by Genevieve Hudson The Hour of Fate, by Susan Berfield Fire In Paradise, by Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano Take Me Apart, by Sara Sligar Good Morning America chose Anna Solomon‘s The Book of V. (also excerpted […]
Awards
Briefs: Edgar Awards and More
Mystery Writers of America announced the winners of the 2020 Edgar Awards. Winners include: Best Novel The Stranger Diaries, by Elly Griffiths (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Best First Novel By An American Author Miracle Creek, by Angie Kim (Sarah Crichton Books/FSG) Best Paperback Original The Hotel Neversink, by Adam O’Fallon Price (Tin House Books) Best Fact Crime The Less People Know About Us, by Axton Betz-Hamilton (Grand Central) Best Critical Biographical Hitchcock and the Censors, by John Billheimer (University Press of Kentucky) Separately, the Publishing Triangle Awards, honoring LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and trans literature were also presented. Ocean Vuong’s On Earth […]
Majumdar’s A Burning Tops June Indie Next List
The ABA named A Burning by Megha Majumdar as its No. 1 Indie Next Pick for June. Also on the list are Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half and Sam Lansky’s Broken People, both excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2020 Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the picks: The Jane Austen Society, by Natalie Jenner Beach Read, by Emily Henry The Second Home, by Christina Clancy Catherine House, by Elisabeth Thomas Super Host, by Kate Russo Pizza Girl, by Jean Kyoung Frazier Something to Talk About, by Meryl Wilsner Reproduction, by Ian Williams You Exist Too Much, by […]
Briefs: Vigliano Buys Back Agency, Sales News, Relief Efforts and More
David Vigliano has reacquired the publishing assets from Ron Burkle’s Y Entertainment Group, after selling them his literary agency in 2014. Having operated as AGI Vigliano since then, the agency returns to its original name of Vigliano Associates. Vigliano said in the announcement, “I’m excited to take what I’ve learned and put it to use as I return to operating independently.” Former chairman of Walt Disney International Andy Bird will join Pearson’s board as an independent non-executive director on May 1. Picks Goop recently launched a book club, picking C Pam Zhang‘s HOW MUCH OF THESE HILLS IS GOLD. Sales […]
People, Etc.
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 […]
People, Etc.
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 […]