Grady Hendrix’s The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires is the top pick for April’s Library Reads. Also on the list are Veronica Roth’s The Chosen Ones and Sue Monk Kidd’s The Book of Longings, both excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books Spring/Summers 2020. The rest of the list: A Bad Day for Sunshine, by Darynda Jones The Book of Lost Friends, by Lisa Wingate Girl Gone Viral, by Alisha Rai The Happy Ever After Playlist, by Abby Jimenez He Started It, by Samantha Downing Little Secrets, by Jennifer Hillier You Deserve Each Other, by Sarah Hogle
Awards
Danticat and Keefe Top NBCC Awards
The National Book Critics Circle announced their 2019 award winners Thursday night: Fiction: Everything Inside, by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf) Nonfiction: Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday) Biography: The Queen, by Josh Levin (Little, Brown) Autobiography: Know My Name, by Chanel Miller (Viking) Poetry: Magical Negro, by Morgan Parker (Tin House Books) Criticism: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, by Saidiya Hartman (Norton)
People, Etc.
At Abrams Children’s Books, Hallie Patterson has been promoted to director of publicity and Brooke Shearouse to publicity manager. In the UK, John Murray publisher Mark Richards and Profile Books commercial director Diana Broccardo have founded Swift Press. They expect to publish 6 to 8 titles in 2021. The principal investors are Geoffrey Faber Holdings and Set Copyrights, co-owners of Faber & Faber. It’s the first time they have invested in another publisher. Swift will join the Independent Alliance for sales. Duke University press editorial director since 2005 Ken Wissoker is staying with the house, now as senior executive editor, […]
People, Etc.
Chad Zimmerman has joined the University of Chicago Press as executive editor for economics, business, and public policy. He was previously at Oxford University Press, where he built OUP’s list in public health. Joseph Calamia has joined the University of Chicago Press as senior editor for the sciences. He was previously at Yale University Press. At Laurence King Publishing, Alex Coumbis has been promoted to publicity manager. Anastasia Scott has been promoted to marketing and publicity manager. Morgan Baden will join Gotham Ghostwriters as creative director. Baden was previously at Scholastic for 11 years, most recently as vice president of corporate […]
Awards: PEN America Winners, Audies, and More
PEN America announced the winners of its 2020 Literary Awards in a ceremony on Monday evening. Yiyun Li‘s Where Reasons End (Random House) won the $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; Mimi Lok‘s Last of Her Name (Kaya Press) won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection; Brandon Shimoda‘s The Grave on the Wall (City Lights Books) won the PEN Open Book Award for a book-length work of any genre by an author of color; and Deborah Fleming‘s Resurrection of the Wild (Kent State University Press) won the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. See the […]
March Picks
Reese Witherspoon chose The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward as her March book club pick. The Today Show’s Read with Jenna pick is Writers & Lovers by Lily King. The Good Morning America book club picked In Five Years by Rebecca Serle. The March Pennie’s Pick at Costco is Lost Boy Found by Kirsten Alexander. The PBS NewsHour-The New York Times Now Read This book club chose Dani Shapiro‘s Inheritance. Barnes & Noble has started announcing their four Books of the Month titles online, in timely fashion: Normal People, by Sally Rooney Chesapeake Requiem, by Earl Swift The Hunting Party, by […]