Ailah Ahmed has been promoted to publishing director at Little Brown UK. Picks Way to go, GMA! After announcing their first two Cover to Cover Book Club picks in the middle of the month, the program is on it for December — with an early announcement that Tomi Adeyemi‘s Children of Virtue and Vengeance is their December Book Club selection. Bookselling As Barnes & Noble faces a lawsuit from a veteran former California bookseller alleging age discrimination and claiming that the chain’s real strategy is “we’re no longer hiring book people. going forward, we’re only hiring sales people,'” ceo James […]
Awards
More Best ofs: Apple Books, Time
Apple Books chose its best books of the year: The Man Who Saw Everything, by Dorothy Levy The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead City of Girls, by Elizabeth Gilbert Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe The Family Upstairs, by Lisa Jewell Me, by Elton John True Believer, by Jack Carr Get a Life, Chloe Brown, by Talia Hibbert Ninth House, by Leigh Barduga Normal People, by Sally Rooney Black Leopard, Red Wolf, by Marlon James Catch and Kill, by Ronan Farrow The Hookup Handbook, by Kendall Ryan Pet, by Akwaeke Emezi Underland, by Robert MacFarlane Everything is Figureoutable, by Marie […]
The New York Times Best 10 of 2019
An energized crowd of bibliophiles gathered at The New York Times Center on 42nd Street for the unveiling of the annual Best 10 Books list. Pamela Paul, editor of The New York Times Book Review, moderated a panel of Times editors and reviewers assembled to discuss their selections. This year’s list features the rare science fiction selection in Ted Chiang’s short-story collection Exhalation. (Three fiction selections are from Knopf and a fourth from Doubleday.) Fiction: Disappearing Earth, by Julia Phillips The Topeka School, by Ben Lerner (a Buzz Books 2019 selection) Exhalation, by Ted Chiang Lost Children Archive, by Valeria […]
People, Etc.
Maggie Richards has been promoted to svp associate publisher at Holt. Serena Jones, promoted to editor-in-chief earlier this year, has stepped back from that position and is executive editor “to devote more time to her books and authors,” as new president and publisher Amy Einhorn looks for a new editor-in-chief. Claire Harris has been promoted to foreign rights director at Foundry Literary + Media. Luke McCord has joined Random House Children’s Books as a Production Associate. He was previously a Production Editor at Peter Lang Publishing. The American Booksellers Association’s inaugural Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards have gone to Billie Bloebaum at Third […]
The Washington Post’s 10 Best Books of the Year
The Washington Post released its year end book package, including its top 10 books of the year. Selections include NBA winner Sarah Broom and Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo, plus NBA finalist Marlon James. Also on the list are Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School, and Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, both of which are excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter sampler. The full list: Fiction Black Leopard, Red Wolf, by Marlon James (Riverhead) Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo (Black Cat) On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press) Strangers and Cousins, […]
National Book Awards: Choi Wins Fiction Prize, Along With Broom, Krasznahorkai, and More
At the 70th National Book Awards on Wednesday evening, Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise (Holt) won the fiction prize — an upset among publishers, at least, as Choi’s book was the only non-Penguin Random House finalist of the category. “I’m actually really surprised,” said a teary Choi before thanking her many collaborators. She added, “The longer I do this, write books and teach writing for a living, the more I’m struck with how it’s its own reward.” Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House (Grove) won the nonfiction prize. Broom offered a tribute to her family, noting her mother was with her […]