The National Book Awards announced their nonfiction longlist Wednesday morning, with roughly half of the ten books on the list falling into the memoir category (including the much-acclaimed and strong-selling book by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith’s chronicle of her life.) The full list includes: Cynthia Barnett, Rain: A Natural and Cultural History (Crown) Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau) Martha Hodes, Mourning Lincoln (Yale University Press) Sally Mann, Hold Still (Little, Brown) Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus (Atria) Susanna Moore, Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawai’i (FSG) Michael Paterniti, […]
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Pippa White has joined Chronicle Books as associate editor. Previously she was an assistant editor at Grand Central. Publishing Technology has hired Scott Winner for the new position of evp of global projects, overseeing how the company delivers its innovations to customers and Xin He as technical liaison engineer, China. As Knopf prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary, Dave Eggers writes a short piece on Sonny Mehta, “himself an institution.” Mehta notes of his arrival at Knopf to succeed Robert Gottlieb: “I was walking into a storm. If you had taken bets on how long I’d survive, it wouldn’t have been very long. To be […]
Yanigihara, James, Tyler Among Booker Prize Finalists; National Book Award Poetry Longlist
The shortlist for the Booker Prize was announced Wednesday morning. Two novels by American writers — A LITTLE LIFE (Doubleday/Picador UK) by Hanya Yanagihara, and A SPOON OF BLUE THREAD by Anne Tyler (Knopf/Chatto & Windus) — were included, as were A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (Riverhead/Oneworld), Satin Island by Tom McCarthy (Knopf/Jonathan Cape), The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma (Little, Brown/One), and The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota (Knopf 2016/Picador UK). McCarthy is the only nominee who appeared previously on a Booker Prize shortlist (for C), while Obioma is tied with 2013 winner Eleanor Catton […]
NBA Longlist for Young People’s Literature
The National Book Foundation began their week of longlists with the young people’s literature candidates on Monday morning. Actual finalists in all four categories will be named at once on October 14. But it’s already clear that there will be no candidates from the children’s divisions of Penguin Random House, which did not garner a single longlist spot — while HarperCollins’ imprints have five titles in contention: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (Balzer + Bray) Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson (Candlewick Press) The Thing […]
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Michael Ballanco has been hired as Hachette Book Group’s as svp, chief information officer, starting September 28, filling the position vacated by Ralph Munsen. Ballanco was CIO at the Warner Music Group and prior to that at EMI Music. Caitlin McDonald has joined the Donald Maass Literary Agency. She was formerly an associate agent at Sterling Lord Literistic. At Grove Atlantic, Peter Blackstock has been promoted to senior editor. In addition, John Mark Boling moves up to senior publicity manager, Justina Batchelor has been promoted to publicity manager, and Becca Putman has been promoted to sales and marketing associate and academic marketing manager. […]
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Lorena Jones has rejoined Ten Speed Press as vp, publisher of a yet-to-be-named imprint focused on cooking and lifestyle books, reporting to Aaron Wehner. Jones was publisher of Ten Speed Press when she left in 2008 after fourteen years with the company and spent the past six years at Chronicle Books, where she was publishing director, food & drink and lifestyle. In her new role she will also serve as editor-at-large for Crown’s larger illustrated publishing program. In the announcement Wehner called Jones a “force in illustrated publishing, having developed and edited some of the most seminal books and authors […]