Philip Roth, 85, died Tuesday night in a New York hospital of congestive heart failure. The NYT calls him “the prolific, protean, and often blackly comic novelist who was a pre-eminent figure in 20th-century literature…. Mr. Roth was the last of the great white males: the triumvirate of writers — Saul Bellow and John Updike…
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Roz Parr will step down from her position as marketing director, Vintage Anchor and Everyman’s Library on June 1 after 18 years in that role, with plans to leave the industry to pursue personal and family priorities.Vintage Anchor publisher Anne Messitte writes, “Roz has had an incredible thirty-eight-year tenure in our industry, bringing invaluable real-world…
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Liz Stein has moved over to the William Morrow group as senior editor. Previously she was with Park Row Books. Rachel Crawford joins Naval Institute Press as production editor. She was most recently production editor/coordinator for Springer Nature. Awards The SFWA announced the Nebula Award winners over the weekend, with NK Jemisin‘s The Stone Sky awarded…
Buzz Books Fall/Winter Preview: Literary & Debut
Our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter sampler alone is full of excerpts from great forthcoming literary fiction by Barbara Kingsolver, Elizabeth McCracken, Sarah Perry and more, plus sixteen promising debuts including titles from Kathy Wang, Wil Medearis, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. As usual, our free ebook starts with a broad view of the forthcoming publishing season that highlights…
The Full Buzz Books Young Adult List
Yesterday we listed the complete roster of adult authors and excerpts in our new free ebook Buzz Books 2018: Fall/Winter sampler. Today we’re excited to highlight all of the young adult authors and excerpts in Buzz Books 2018 Young Adult: Fall/Winter. Since we first launched YA as its own Buzz Books collection at BEA five years ago, these editions…
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At Harper Collins, Jennifer Civiletto is moving to the Harper Group as senior publishing manager, reporting to Amy Baker. She was publishing manager, working with former president and publisher Michael Morrison. Following the elimination of Ben Ball’s job at Penguin Random House Australia, senior editor in the same Literary division Meredith Rose resigned “as a consequence” of…