The 2019 Whiting Award winners were announced in a ceremony on Wednesday evening. The ten winners of the $50,000 prize are: Fiction Nafissa Thompson-Spires (Heads of the Colored People, 37 Ink) Merritt Tierce (Love Me Back, Anchor) Hernan Diaz (In the Distance, Coffee House) Nonfiction Nadia Owusu (Aftershocks, forthcoming from Simon & Schuster) Terese Marie Mailhot (Heart Berries, Counterpoint) Poetry Kayleb Rae Candrilli (What Runs Over, YesYes Books) Tyree Daye (River Hymns, American Poetry Review) Vanessa Angélica Villarreal (Beast Meridian, Noemi Press) Drama Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop) Lauren Yee (Cambodian Rock Band)
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At St. Martin’s, Joe Goldschein has been promoted to senior director, marketing & sales operations; Kim Ludlam to director, creative services; Martin Quinn to associate director, marketing; Marissa Sangiacomo to senior marketing manager; Erik Platt to senior manager, digital advertising operations; Danielle Prielipp to senior marketing manager; Joe Brosnan to senior marketing manager; DJ DeSmyter to marketing manager; and Dylan Helstien to assistant manager, advertising operations. Paddy Laidley, executive vice president and head of Raincoast Books, will retire on May 31. Current vice president of sales Peter MacDougall will succeed her. Laidley joined Raincoast in 1994 as sales manager and […]
People, Etc.: Teicher to Retire From ABA
American Booksellers Association ceo since 2009 Oren Teicher announced Monday that he will retire at the end of the year. The ABA board has retained the search firm of Isaacson, Miller and has appointed a search committee, intending to complete the search process by September 30. Teicher said, “To say the least, this was not a decision I reached lightly, as I have cherished every single day over the last 30 years that I have worked at ABA. But the time has come, and I firmly believe it’s the right decision for me, and for ABA. There are also a number […]
Kelly’s Lost Roses Tops April’s Library Reads
Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly is the top pick for April’s Library Reads list. Also on the list are Tracey Garvis Graves’ The Girl He Used to Know and Melanie Golding’s Little Darlings, both excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the picks: The Invited, by Jennifer McMahon Miracle Creek, by Angie Kim The Mother-In-Law, by Sally Hepworth Normal People, by Sally Rooney Save Me the Plums, by Ruth Reichl Southern Lady Code, by Helen Ellis Women Talking, by Miriam Toews
NBCC Awards to Burns, Coll, Smith and More
The National Book Critics Circle announced their 2018 award winners on Thursday night: Novel Milkman, Anna Burns (Graywolf), Nonfiction Directorate S, Steve Coll (Penguin Press) Criticism Feel Free, Zadie Smith (Penguin Press) Autobiography Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home, Nora Krug (Scribner); Biography Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous, Christopher Bonanos (Holt) Poetry Carrying, Ada Limón (Milkweed)
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Hannah Rahill has been promoted to senior vice president, director of publishing development and strategy at Crown Publishing. In this newly created position, she will develop publishing programs and product across the illustrated area of Crown, including Ten Speed, Clarkson Potter, and Harmony/Rodale. At Chronicle Books, Natalie Butterfield has been promoted to assistant editor, art. Lee Brackstone will leave Faber & Faber after nearly 25 years there to join Orion, where he will run a new music-focused imprint. Also in the UK, executive publisher at Templar Lisa Edwards will leave the company to explore new opportunities. Forthcoming Flatiron Books will publish […]