Jessica Regel has left Foundry Literary + Media to start her own agency, Helm Literary. Sasha White has been promoted to assistant agent at Tobias Literary Agency, seeking adult fiction, YA, political/historical non-fiction, memoirs, and world literature in translation. At the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, Kate Weiss has been promoted to programs manager. They will fill her previous role by hiring a new communication coordinator. Longtime Today Show producer Jackie Levin is leaving NBC News, Page Six reports, taking a buyout after 26 years at the network. Obituaries Pete Hamill, 85, journalist, columnist, and author of ten novels, two books of short stories, and several books of […]
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People, Etc.: Oprah Picks Wilkerson’s Caste
Desiree Wilson has joined the Bent Agency as an agent. Wilson was a freelance literary consultant and previously worked as an editor at Oni Press. At Aevitas Creative Management, Karen Brailsford joins as consulting agent and Georgia Frances King as agent. Brailsford has been a writer and editor at People, among other publications. King was most recently ideas editor of Quartz. Morgan LaRocca has been promoted to publicity associate at Graywolf Press. Picks Isabel Wilkerson‘s Caste is the new Oprah’s Book Club selection. Winfrey writes, ““Of all the books I’ve chosen for book club over the decades, there isn’t another that is more essential […]
(Lots of) New Books Publishing August 4
Between rescheduled spring titles and early releases ahead of the presidential election, August is the new September this year. Jeff Kinney’s rescheduled Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Adventure and Stephenie Meyer’s long-awaited Midnight Sun both land today. And so does Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (her first book since the 2010 Pulitzer-winning The Warmth of Other Suns, just named the latest Oprah’s Book Club pick ) and a wave of notable fiction. As in previous weeks, our sample Bookshop and Aerbook store carousels provide easy displays of books publishing today in need of attention and support, featuring: 42 new works of […]
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Mensah Demary has been promoted to executive editor at the Catapult Book Group. Tori Sharp has been promoted to associate literary agent at the Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency. Eugenia Pakalik is joining McNally Jackson Books as general manager at the Prince Street store. Most recently she was director of trade sales at Chronicle Books. Previous manager Douglas Singleton has been promoted to director of McNally Jackson Books. At Yale University Press, Stephen Cebik has been promoted to assistant sales director, head of digital and art sales; Nick Geller is now art book distribution partner coordinator, and Kate Zanzucchi moves […]
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Longtime director of Ingram Spark Robin Asbury Cutler will retire at the end of 2020. She joined Ingram in 2011 and led the launch of Spark in 2013. She says in the announcement, “I’ve been planning to step down for some time but decided to stay on through 2020 when the pandemic hit. We weren’t quite finished with what we needed to do to support our community during this challenging time.” The company will start a search for replacement. VP of Lightning Source Kelly Gallagher comments, “Every once in a while, a leader comes along who can help lead the […]
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Alicia Kroell has been promoted to assistant editor at Catapult. At Sourcebooks, Christy Droege has been promoted to director of data. Adam Lara becomes web developer and administrator. Emily Forney and Umaima Saleem have joined BookEnds Literary Agency. Forney was most recently a publishing and editorial fellow for the LA Review of Books; Saleem was an intern at BookEnds and recipient of a We Need Diverse Books grant. James McGowan has been promoted to associate agent. Finally Forthcoming Blake Bailey‘s long-awaited biography of the late Philip Roth, written based on a collaboration agreement with Roth, will be published by Norton […]