It’s a strong week for nonfiction when a Joan Didion collection (new collection, old essays) isn’t the most remarkable offering. Highlights include Cicely Tyson’s memoir, an autobiography of Ida B. Wells, Ben Montgomery’s rare history of justice in the Jim Crow era, and NYT columnist Charles Blow’s Black power manifesto. Fiction includes Keisha Bush’s debut…
New Releases/Forthcoming
Gorman’s Inaugural Poem Coming Soon As Hardcover Book
Following the striking recitation by poet Amanda Gorman at the presidential inauguration on Wednesday, Penguin Children’s announced that “due to overwhelming demand” it will issue a special hardcover edition of the work, THE HILL WE CLIMB. They plan a spring release, with an announced first printing of 150,000 copies, with the pub date still to…
New Books Publishing January 19
Emily Rapp Black’s memoir of resilience, a new Rita Mae Brown mystery, and a supernatural teen romance from Josh Malerman are among this week’s notable new releases. Nine new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-january-19 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_January_/218651 Six nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-january-19 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_January_/218652
Simon & Schuster Will Still Distribute Hawley Book — Because of Client Publisher Regnery
Simon & Schuster’s “larger public responsibility as citizens” will be tested yet again over the book by Senator Josh Hawley — since Regnery Publishing “is proud to stand in the breach with him” and intends to publish THE TYRANNY OF BIG TECH on May 4. S&S is the distributor for Regnery. Distributors generally have no control…
New Books Publishing January 12
A broad selection of books publish today, including Victoria Gosling’s Before the Ruins, featured in our Buzz Books Fall/Winter 2020 sampler; a masterclass on Russian short stories from George Saunders; Adam Jentleson’s all too timely Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy; and more. 26 new works of…
People, Etc.
Jayme Boucher joins Hachette Book Group on January 20 as director of their speakers bureau. Established in 2009 in partnership with Greater Talent Network, Hachette Speakers Bureau relaunches this year as an in-house venture, under Boucher’s leadership. She was a founding member and senior leader of the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau. Jessica Renheim has…