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Elizabeth A. Harris has been named a new publishing reporter at the New York Times, and will move over from culture to books. Harris joined the NYT in 2009. Book of the Month readers picked Brit Bennett‘s THE VANISHING HALF as their Book of the Year. The book was also the No. 1 checkout at the New York Public Library this year. The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has published the 2020 update to the BISAC book publishing subject codes.This year’s update added 155 codes and modified 123 literals. As executive director Brian O’Leary notes, “The BISAC Subject Codes are […]
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People Robin Cutler has joined LMBPN Publishing as president of worldwide publishing. Cutler previously worked for Ingram Content Group for over nine years, leading the development and launch of IngramSpark. At Canongate, Joanna Lord has been promoted to head of UK and digital sales; Nadine Luchsinger to sales operations manager; and Katalina Watt to audio and digital executive. Viet Thanh Nguyen wrote a piece for the New York Times exploring the future of literature post-Trump. He asks, in 2021, “will writers, especially white writers, take a deep breath of relief and retreat back to the politics of the apolitical, which […]
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Riky Stock will join North South Books as managing director on January 1. She will focus on “strengthening transatlantic ties to the company’s head office in Zurich, Switzerland and developing a more international approach to marketing and communications.” Stock was head of the German Book Office in New York and represented the Frankfurt Book Fair in the US. (That office was recently closed.) One of the year’s unanswered questions has been what France’s Vivendi — and controlling owner Vincent Bolloré — wants from its sizable 27 percent stage in Lagardere. Reuters suggests the battle for control of the company may […]
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Andrea Walker has joined Azantian Literary Agency as agent. She was previously an agent at Olswanger Literary. William Morris Endeavor named 25 new partners across the agency, including Margaret Riley King in the books department. WME also told staff that the pay reductions imposed in April will be restored starting January 1. Best Of Barack Obama shared his favorite books of the year. His picks include novels by Brit Bennett, Raven Leilani, and Kawai Strong Washburn, all featured in our Buzz Books 2020 Spring/Sumer anthology. Homeland Elegies, by Ayad Akhtar Jack, by Marilynne Robinson Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson The Splendid […]