Today the National Book Awards released the nonfiction longlist, with judges Steve Bercu, Jeff Chang, Ruth Franklin, Paula J. Giddings, and Valeria Luiselli selecting politically-skewed reading: Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (37 Ink) Frances FitzGerald, The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America (Simon & Schuster) James Forman, Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Farrar, Straus) Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Riverhead) David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Doubleday) Naomi Klein, No […]
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At Open Road, Mary McAveney is being promoted to chief marketing officer and Daniel Shemesh has been promoted to chief financial officer. Katie O’Callaghan and Stephanie Cooper have both been promoted to director of marketing, working on titles across all of the Harper imprints (Harper hardcover, Harper Design, Amistad, and Broadside Books). At WaterBrook and Multnomah, Julia Wallace has been promoted to executive managing editor; Karen Sherry has been promoted to associate director of interiors; and Helen Macdonald has joined as production editor. Monica Odom has returned to Liza Dawson Associates as agent, bringing her clients with her from Bradford Literary Agency. Author most notably of the […]
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Next up from the National Book Awards is the poetry longlist: Frank Bidart, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 (Farrar, Straus) Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions) Leslie Harrison, The Book of Endings (University of Akron Press) Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems (Norton) Laura Kasischke, Where Now: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press) Layli Long Soldier, Whereas (Graywolf) Shane McCrae, In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press) Sherod Santos, Square Inch Hours (Norton) Danez Smith, Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems (Graywolf) Mai Der Vang, Afterland (Graywolf)
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Mark Warren will join Random House as vice president and executive editor starting October 16. He was previously an editor at Esquire for two decades, and co-authored former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s memoir, The Good Fight. Editor-in-chief Andy Ward says: “Mark has the skills and intuition of a great editor, as well as the firsthand experience of an author–perspective and empathy that have earned the respect of the authors with whom he has worked.” Brian Geffen has joined Holt Children’s as editor. Most recently he was associate editor at Philomel. Cordelia Calvert has been promoted to senior publicist for Liveright. Scholastic Trade […]
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At Transatlantic Agency, Samantha Haywood, has bought controlling interest in the agency from co-founder David Bennett and is now president of the firm. Bennett will serve as chairman emeritus, and co-founder Lynn Bennett stays on as treasurer. Also at Transatlantic, Rob Firing has joined as speakers’ agent and literary agent, working tocreate a speakers’ division. He was senior director of publicity, communications, and speakers’ bureau at Harper Canada. Marilyn Biderman, previously of Marilyn Biderman Literary Management, joins as senior literary agent, bringing her clients with her. Bennett says of the changes, “Lynn and I are thrilled to be passing the torch to Samantha […]
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Wendi Gu has joined Janklow & Nesbit as an associate agent, working with Brooks Sherman in the children’s books division. She was most recently an agent at Greenburger Associates and will continue to represent fiction for young adult and middle-grade readers, picture books, and select adult fiction and nonfiction. Julie Tibbott, who was previously a senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s, has joined Jill Corcoran Literary Agency as an agent. Jim Dassise, West Coast college field sales manager for Penguin Random House, will leave the company after 17 years on September 15. He can be reached at jdassise19@gmail.com and is based […]