The New York Review of Books named two new co-editors, Emily Greenhouse, 32, and Gabriel Winslow-Yost, 33, to succeed Ian Buruma, who left last September. Greenhouse was most recently the managing editor of The New Yorker, but was an assistant at NYRB in 2011 and 2012. Winslow-Yost has worked at NYRB since 2009, most recently as a senior editor. Longtime contributor Daniel Mendelsohn will take on the new role of editor at large. The review has a tradition of co-editors, started by founders Bob Silvers and Barbara Epstein, and publisher Rea Hederman said he was looking for two people. “It […]
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Cassidy Sachs has been promoted to assistant editor at Dutton. At Cooke International, Hana El Niwairi has been promoted to subsidiary rights associate. Co-founder with her husband Ian Ballantine of Ballantine Books and Bantam Books Betty Ballantine, 99, died on Tuesday at home in Bearsville, NY. Random House president and publisher Gina Centrello said in a statement, “We mourn the passing of Betty Ballantine, who with her husband Ian was a trailblazing contributor to the growth and development of book publishing and to the careers of countless authors and editors. We proudly carry forward the Ballantine legacy with this eponymous imprint […]
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Simon Trewin has left William Morris Endeavor after 6 years to start his own agency, Simone Trewin Ltd., representing authors, brands and entrepreneurs in the areas of art, culture, digital, literature, and live events. Trewin says in part, “This is a chance to return to my roots in the entertainment industry and I am looking forward to making live events, theatre and film production part of the mix of my new endeavor. I have authors who I would go to the wall for and they will always be my first priority but I can’t wait to get to work on seeing […]
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Liz Kelsch has been promoted to director of marketing for nonfiction and mystery at Sourcebooks. Picks Reese Witherspoon‘s book club pick for February is Jasmine Guillory’s The Proposal. Distribution Rizzoli New York will distribute Pavilion Books, Pavilion Children’s, Portico, Pitkin, and the National Trust via Penguin Random House Publisher Services, starting July 2019. Previously these lists were distributed by IPG. Bookselling A new bookstore, Still North Books, will open in Hanover, NH in the space that belonged to Dartmouth Bookstore, which closed last year after 146 years of operation. The new owner Allie Levy, who previously worked in the marketing department at HMH, says […]
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At Crown Publishing, Diana Baroni has been promoted to senior vice president and editor in chief of Harmony Books and Rodale Books. Doris Cooper becomes senior vice president and editor in chief of Clarkson Potter, and Lorena Jones moves up to senior vice president and editor in chief of Ten Speed Press. Kaiya Muniz has joined the national accounts children’s sales team at Simon & Schuster. She was previously children’s national account sales associate at Hachette. Scholastic Trade announced a number of promotions: Vanessa Han has been promoted to senior designer at Klutz; Kim Rogers to associate product editor at Klutz; Nick Thomas to senior editor, Arthur A. Levine Books; Kait Feldman to editor, Arthur […]
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Kathy Dunn has been promoted to executive publicist at Random House Children’s. There will be a memorial service for the late Claudio López de Lamadrid at this year’s London Book Fair, on Wednesday, March 13, at 4.30pm, in room 2, at the Conference Center on the third floor of London Olympia. Forthcoming Bonnier Zaffre will publish a sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris, CILKA’S JOURNEY, on October 3 in the UK. Distribution Hachette Book Group USA will take over distribution of Summersdale from Trafalgar Square on March 1. Hachette UK’s Octopus Books acquired Summersdale in late 2017.