Jeffrey Eugenides‘ first novel in nine years (and his first since the Pulitzer Prize winner MIDDLESEX) will be published by FSG in October. Catalog copy describes THE MARRIAGE PLOT as “a brilliant, funny, and heartbreaking novel about the glories and vicissitudes of young love”, with the 576-page novel priced as a $28 hardcover. FSG will also publish Roberto Bolano‘s previously undiscovered manuscript THE THIRD REICH in November, with an excerpt running in the spring issue of The Paris Review – the first time the magazine has excerpted a novel in nearly 40 years.WSJ In his forthcoming memoir, Massachusetts Governor Deval […]
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Maria Campbell Associates has named Mary Pender-Coplan vice-president, the first time the scouting agency has appointed someone to this position. She has been there for five years and is responsible for the dramatic rights and children’s book scouting. They have been appointed exclusive US literary scout for AST Publishing Group in Russia; both Wahlstrom & Widstrand and children’s publisher Bonnier Carlsen in Sweden; Locus in Taiwan; Shanghai 99 in China; and Warner Bros. Television (joining longtime client Warner Bros. Pictures). Longtime Atria executive editorial director Emily Bestler will establish an eponymous imprint, Atria Books-Emily Bestler Books, and has been promoted […]
Lamar to Join Holt As New Editor In Chief
Holt has reached beyond traditional circles to hire Jill Lamar as their new editor in chief, starting March 14, reporting to division publisher and president Steve Rubin. (Lamar will oversee the Henry Holt imprint; other Holt imprints such as Metropolitan Books and Times Books will continue to be run separately.) As Rubin said to us, “why just reshuffle the deck again?” He notes, “Jill has been universally respected as the director of Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers program since 1999 and was the driving force behind B&N Recommends.” Prior to her 13 years at BN, in the mid-90s […]
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Phil Revzin is resigning from his position as senior editor at St. Martin’s to become editor at large for Bloomberg News, covering the international financial markets.Emma Hopkin is leaving her position as managing director for Macmillan Children’s Books UK on April 21st “to pursue an exciting new challenge elsewhere in children’s publishing.” She first joined the company as a marketing director of Pan, moving to the children’s division two years later, where she was appointed m.d. in 2005. At Interweave’s book division, Elisabeth Malzahn has been promoted to marketing director, and Erica Smith joined the united as an editor. She […]
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John Evans of DIESEL Bookstores in California and Matt Norcross of McLean & Eakin Booksellers in Petosky, Michigan have been nominated to join the ABA board for three-year terms, and Ken White of San Francisco State University Bookstore has been put up for a second term. Becky Anderson of Anderson’s Bookshops will take over from Michael Tucker as ABA president and Steve Bercu of BookPeople will serve as vice president/secretary. Gonzalo Ferreyra will join Weldon Owen in San Francisco as director of marketing, print and digital on February 14. Previously, he was vp of sales at VIZ Media and director […]
Bookstore News
Diane Cox has bought Whittier, CA’s The Little Old Bookshop and will reopen it this week as Half Off Books. Item Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse in La Cañada Flintridge, Calif., will re-open Monday in an expanded location. The store will have an Espresso Book Machine and host events.La Canada Online But The Muses Bookstore in Morganton, NC is closing after 40 years, calling the rise of ereading the “last nail” in the coffin. Item And Seattle bookshop Twice Sold Tales will relinquish its store in the city’s University District and sell books exclusively online.Seattle P-I