We checked our Reviews database at PM to see what kind of full-length reviews the National Book Award fiction and nominees have received so far. Patti Smith leads the pack with 14 reviews, and Peter Carey is the only who is close, though Nicole Krauss will surely garner more reviews soon. Just click to see all the reviews of a given title: FictionPeter Carey’s Parrot & Olivier In America (12)Nicole Krauss’s Great House (5, so far) Plus the Publishers Lunch First Look ReviewLionel Shriver’s So Much for That (13)Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel (3) NonfictionBarbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy: Ordinary […]
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Heidi Metcalfe will join It Books as an associate director of publicity next week. Most recently she was a senior publicity manager at Free Press, where she’s been since 2006. At the Random House Publishing Group, Debbie Aroff has been promoted to senior manager, brand marketing. Christina Mamangakis has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as publicity manager. She was previously a publicist at Scribner. The New York Journal of Books has launched an online-only site of original book reviews from a pool of over 100 experienced reviewers. It’s founded by Ted Sturtz, on “an extended break from a long career in […]
Summer Books to Watch
We always enjoy the Wall Street Journal’s detailed preview of summer books which runs today. Along the same vein, USA Today ran their summer preview package earlier in the week, and the NYT’s Janet Maslin stuffs her beach bag with “fangs and other fluff, completely guilt free,” calling summer “the time to stop lying about what you read for fun.” In a short ebook preview, the Journal notes that the designers of the iPad version of Alice of Wonderland will sell a version of The Wizard of Oz next, while Vook has a two-part thriller series that features 36 chapters […]
Nielsen to Close Kirkus Reviews
The publishing world’s concerns about declining review space will only become more severe with this morning’s news that Nielsen Business Media has “made the decision to cease operations” at Kirkus Reviews (as well as Editor & Publisher.) The news came as the company announced the sale of the Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, and six other media brands to Guggenheim Partners and Pluribus Capital Management. Nielsen is retaining ownership of The Bookseller in the UK. The memo from Nielsen Business Media president Greg Farrar does not indicate what will become of the Kirkus archives, and whether there will be any effort to […]
People: Former Morrow Publisher Gallagher Joins Sanford Greenburger
Former publisher of William Morrow Lisa Gallagher is joining Sanford Greenburger Associates as an agent. She notes, “I want to apply my extensive marketing experience to help bring writers and their work to the widest possible audience across various media and formats.” Heide Lange at SJGA adds, “Lisa is that rare publishing professional whose talents include strong editorial insight, marketing expertise, and keen business sense. In other agency news, Dystel & Goderich Literary Management is opening a second office in Los Angeles in December, to be run by agency vp Michael Bourret, who has been at DGLM for 10 years. […]