A week of National Book Award longlists ends with the fiction list of ten nominees, including recent Oprah Book Club selection Colson Whitehead — the best-known author on the list as well — and last year’s Young People’s Literature winner Jacqueline Woodson. Three of the titles are published by Norton; the rest are all from imprints at the largest houses. The full list features: Chris Bachelder, The Throwback Special (Norton) Garth Greenwell, What Belongs to You (FSG) Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown) Paulette Jiles, News of the World (William Morrow) Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Viking) Elizabeth […]
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David Granger has joined both Kuhn Projects and Zachary Shuster Harmsworth as an agent, based in the two firms’ shared New York offices. Granger was the editor in chief of Esquire for the last 19 years.
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At Knopf Children’s Books, Erin Clarke has been promoted to senior executive editor and Katherine Harrison has been promoted to editor; and Samantha Gentry has been promoted to assistant editor at Crown Children’s. Simon & Schuster Children’s has hired Sarah Creech as senior designer for Simon Pulse (she was at HarperCollins). KeriLee Horan has been promoted to marketing manager, continuing to report to Chrissy Noh. At Curtis Brown, Sarah Perillo has been promoted to foreign rights manager, continuing to report to Jonathan Lyons, and now overseeing the licensing of adult titles in the UK and Australia. Former UK prime minister David Cameron, who announced recently he will give up his seat in […]
Awards: Booker Shortlist; National Book Poetry Longlist
The Booker Prize announced their shortlist, with the winner to be named October 13 [Update: The correct awards date is October 25]. Two Americans — Paul Beatty for his NBCC-winning novel and Ottessa Moshfegh for her PEN/Hemingway debut winner — are in contention in a field that includes no previous Booker winners. (Deborah Levy was shortlisted in 2012 for Swimming Home.) Since the longlist, Norton has picked up US rights to Madeleine Thien’s novel, and will publish on October 11. Graeme Macrae Burnet will continue to draw attention after garnering a nomination for a crime thriller, and Skyhorse has bumped up the […]
AAP CEO Tom Allen to Retire In Early 2017
The Association of American Publishers announced that ceo Tom Allen will retire from his post “in early 2017.” Allen has run the organization since April 2009. He says in a statement: “It has been a privilege to lead AAP these past seven years and I am proud of all we have accomplished. After twenty years commuting to and from Washington, it’s time for me to return to Maine and dedicate myself to part-time and mostly voluntary activities like environmental conservation, writing and perhaps teaching about Congress and American politics. I look forward to working with the AAP board and management team as we prepare […]
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Jana Branson has joined Clarkson Potter this week as associate director of publicity. Previously she was director of communications at Sequential Brands Group (formerly Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia), and replaces Anna Mintz, who is leaving Clarkson Potter to move back home to Atlanta and make a lifestyle change. In addition, Erica Gelbard has been promoted to executive publicist. Park Literary & Media is now representing foreign and audio rights for Sasquatch Books. Sharon Olds has been named the recipient of the Academy of American Poets’ $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award, deemed “an American master and a national treasure”.