The Chicago Tribune named its ten best books of 2018, including Sheila Heti’s novel, which is available to sample now in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer. The full list: Nonfiction Boom Town, by Sam Anderson This Land, by Dan Barry Frederick Douglass, by David W. Blight Rising, by Elizabeth Rush Feel Free, by Zadie Smith Fiction Motherhood, by Sheila Heti The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, by Denis Johnson X-Men: Grand Design, by Ed Piskor The Overstory, by Richard Powers Heads of the Colored People, by Nafissa Thompson-Spires In other selections JP Morgan announced its annual recommended reading list, and […]
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The NYT’s Ten Best Books of the Year
For the first time, the New York Times announced its ten best books of year at a live event in Manhattan on Thursday morning, at the Greene Space, recorded for their podcast. Book Review editor Pamela Paul spoke with a panel of NYT editors about each selection, stating that a best book of the year is “a book that is not only of the moment but a book that we think transcends the moment.” The five fiction selections include debuts from Lisa Halliday and Tommy Orange, as well as Esi Eduygan’s Giller Prize-winning novel. The complete list: Fiction The Great Believers, […]
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Naomi Gibbs has been promoted to senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Richard Rhorer has been promoted to vp and deputy publisher of the Simon & Schuster Publishing Group. At Westwood Creative Artists, Meg Wheeler has been promoted to associate agent, representing writers of literary and commercial fiction as well as non-fiction. She will continue to assist Bruce Westwood and act as rights associate under WCA’s international rights director Carolyn Forde. Forthcoming An early galley for Leslie Jamison‘s collection of essays Make It Scream, Make It Burn — named for this 2013 essay in the Oxford American, and publishing in October 2019 […]
Briefs: MWA Names Grand Masters, More Best Book Lists
Awards The Mystery Writers of America named authors Linda Fairstein and Martin Cruz Smith as the 2019 Grand Masters. Marilyn Stasio, the mystery critic for the NYTBR since 1988,will receive the Raven Award for “achievement in the mystery field outside the realm of creative writing.” The Ellery Queen Award honoring “outstanding writing teams and outstanding people in the mystery-publishing industry will go to Linda Landrigan for her work as the editor of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Honorees will be recognized at the Edgar Awards Banquet on April 25. Best of NPR has brought back its Book Concierge, featuring 319 titles. The Oregonian chose 19 titles as the best of […]
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Membership and marketing officer at the American Booksellers Association Meg Smith “has decided to stop working full time” following the 2019 Winter Institute in January, after almost 20 years with the organization. CEO Oren Teicher says, “Meg has become a friend to all of us, and her unstinting support of the independent bookstore community is legendary. It will be hard to imagine ABA without her.” Transatlantic Agency partner and senior agent Marie Campbell is retiring, but will remain on as an advisor to the agency. A former editor, in-house rights manager, and instructor at Ryerson University’s Publishing Program, she has worked […]
More 2018 Favorites, From Oprah Magazine and Hudson Booksellers
Oprah Magazine published its 15-title list of favorite books of 2018, with Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry as the top title. (Also on the list is Barbara Kingsolver’s latest novel, available to sample in our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter edition.) The other picks: An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones Clock Dance, by Anne Tyler How to Love a Jamaican, by Alexia Arthurs The Overstory, by Richard Powers Those Who Knew, by Idra Novey The Feral Detective, by Jonathan Lethem Everything Here Is Beautiful, by Mira T. Lee Lake Success, by Gary Shteyngart Educated, by Tara Westover Pretend I’m Dead, by Jen Beagin Unsheltered, […]