It’s been a busy week for books and authors making news. Honestly we were surprised that our exclusive report on the bestselling author of Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese moving to Scribner for his second novel THE MARAMON CONVENTION (at a multi-million dollar auction) didn’t get more play in other media. Once upon a time, similar moves by Charles Frazier or Audrey Niffenegger were the stuff of considerable newsprint. In further deal news, author of the current bestseller The Dinner Herman Koch re-signed with Hogarth for SUMMERHOUSE WITH SWIMMING POOL, for 2014, and author most recently of Rin Tin Tin Susan Orlean signed […]
Books In the News
Books In the News
There is a wave of praise for Sonali Deraniyagala‘s memoir of life after the tsunami, which is Amazon’s spotlight pick for the month and one of the BN’s favorites as well (also tipped as one of our spring memoir/biography buzz books to watch for), as Mohsin Hamid‘s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia releases tomorrow as well after competing pre-publication first reviews in the NYT and Washington Post last month. It’s a very competitive week for new releases, including Anne Carson’s Red Doc, Andrew Pyper’s The Demonologist, and nonfiction from Jeb Bush (on immigration), Sandra Day O’Connor, Christa Parravani’s memoir […]
Books In the News
Just a few days ago it was Clive Davis‘s The Soundtrack of My Life that was everywhere, from disclosing his bisexuality to a rebuke from Kelly Clarkson, but now the Sheryl Sandberg Lean In juggernaut is beginning. As she tells the NYT, the aim is not just to share ideas through a book to “run a social movement.” Her Lean In Circles are “half business school and half book club,” with “precise” membership requirements and guidelines. The question is “will more earthbound women, struggling with cash flow and child care, embrace the advice of […]
Doubleday Announces New Dan Brown Novel, INFERNO, for May 14
Remember back when a different author was driving eye-popping sales for Random House, Inc.? Author Dan Brown returns on May 14 with a new thriller, INFERNO, once again featuring his recurring character Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbologist and set to be published in North America by Doubleday, Transworld in the UK, and in audiobook format by Random House Audio. The publisher announced a first printing of 4 million copies. In its first week on sale in fall 2009, Brown’s last book, THE LOST SYMBOL, sold “more than 2 million units worldwide.” (Brown’s THE DA VINCI CODE is reported to have 81 […]
More Books In the News
If you don’t have the Publishers Lunch Bookateria home page on regular browser rotation yet, we continue to feature an ever-changing set of “Books In the News,” aggregating stories and titles of interest with a different lens than the newsletter and our trade news feeds. If you don’t have the Publishers Lunch Bookateria home page on regular browser rotation yet, we continue to feature an ever-changing set of “Books In the News,” aggregating stories and titles of interest with a different lens than the newsletter and our trade news feeds. Playing now is Stephen King’s UNDER THE DOME, announced as […]
Books In the News
If you don’t have the Publishers Lunch Bookateria home page on regular browser rotation yet, we’ve been featuring an ever-changing set of “Books In the News,” aggregating stories and titles of interest with a different lens than the newsletter and our trade news feeds. Over the last few days we have highlighted the drumbeat of praise for George Saunders’ TENTH OF DECEMBER (back today with editor Andy Ward’s interview–also reconsider his Pastoralia and Civilwarland in Bad Decline); early coverage of retired General Stanley McChrystal’s memoir MY SHARE OF THE TASK; brothers Nathaniel and Simon Rich (the latter’s The Last Girlfriend […]