Jenna Bush Hager chose Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House as the October pick for the Today Show Book Club. Amazon‘s spotlight pick for the month is Adrienne Brodeur’s The Wild Game. Its featured debut, Megan Phelps-Roper’s Unfollow, as well as another pick, Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School, are excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter. The rest of the picks: Ninth House, by Leigh Bardugo Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was A Girl, by Jeannie Vanasco Grand Union, by Zadie Smith All This Could Be Yours, by Jamie Attenberg Olive Again, by Elizabeth Strout I […]
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Lara Jones has been promoted to associate editor at Emily Bestler Books. Megan Rudloff has been promoted to associate publicist at Atria. Conor Mintzer joins Holt as associate editor. He was most recently at Flatiron Books. Sylvie Carr has founded The Carr Agency. She was previously an agent at Fletcher & Company. Idea Architects has launched a new division called Idea Architects: True focused on “inspirational and compelling memoirs and true stories that have the power to change hearts and minds.” Author Lara Love Hardin will develop and represent the books for the new unit. Author Janet Evanovich is switching agents […]
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Cindy Sipala has been promoted to executive editor at Running Press. Mary Reynics is moving Ballantine Bantam Dell as executive editor, reporting to Jennifer Hershey. She was previously at Crown, and will continue to edit select titles for Crown Forum. Robert Van Kolken joins the Hachette Audio staff as senior producer. He was previously with Macmillan. At Scholastic, Michael Moccio has joined as coordinator, licensing & brands. He was previously assistant editor at Boom! Studios. Paul Moore has joined as associate director, metadata. He was previously manager, publishing & planning (operations) at Disney Publishing. Veronica Mang has joined as junior designer, […]
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Rakia Clark has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as senior editor. She was most recently senior editor at Beacon Press. Mabel Hsu has been promoted to editor at Katherine Tegen Books. Stephanie Cooper has joined Dutton and Plume as marketing director. She was previously marketing director at Harper Collins. Maria Whelan has joined Princeton University Press as promotions manager overseeing publicity for history, philosophy, and sociology books. She was previously a senior Publicist at Dutton. Peter Robinson is leaving Rogers, Coleridge, and White to “begin a fresh chapter in his life” after over 30 years as an agent. He has been […]
Oprah’s Book Club No Longer Exclusively Shills for Amazon
As first announced in March, Oprah’s book club returns and promises to be less occasional in her new relationship with Apple TV+. Her first pick under the new banner is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer — though because Apple’s new streaming service does not launch until November, the first video episode featuring Coates will not be available until then. But they promise a new episode every two months (or 6 picks a year). The last Oprah pick was almost a year ago, when she featured Michelle Obama’s Becoming. Most importantly, the new relationship represents at least a partial reduction in Oprah’s […]
The NBA Fiction Longlist
The National Book Foundation announced its ten title longlist, with finalists to be named on October 8. Nominated authors include previous NBA winner Colson Whitehead (2016) and Booker winner Marlon James (2015), and Pulitzer finalists Susan Choi (2003) and Laila Lailami (2015). Five debuts make the list, and eight of the ten nominated books are published by Penguin Random House. The full list: Fleishman Is in Trouble, by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (Random House) Trust Exercise, Susan Choi (Henry Holt) Sabrina & Corina, by Kali Fajardo-Anstine (One World) Black Leopard, Red Wolf, by Marlon James (Riverhead Books) The Other Americans, by Laila Lalami (Pantheon […]