Lawrence Wright‘s THE PLAGUE YEAR will be published by Knopf on June 8, with an announced first printing of 100,000 copies. A portion of the book ran in the The New Yorker a few weeks. Wright traces Covid-19 from its origins in China, to the critical first weeks and months of its arrival in the U.S., through its escalation around the world, to today. Malcolm Gladwell‘s THE BOMBER MAFIA: A Dream, A Temptation, and The Longest Night of the Second World War will be published on April 27 by Little, Brown, with Gladwell’s audio production company Pushkin Industries releasing the […]
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At Harper Children’s, Audrey Diestelkamp has been promoted to director, marketing; Robert Imfeld to associate director; Sabrina Abballe to senior manager; and Michael D’Angelo to assistant manager. At Phaidon, vice president, group publisher, Deb Aaronson will now manage the entire editorial group, overseeing commissioning in all of Phaidon’s publishing categories, including art, architecture, cookery, design, general interest, photography, and children’s. Emilia Terragni has taken on a new role as associate publisher. Simon Hunegs has been promoted to project editor. Ellie Smith has rejoined in the role of managing editor, culinary team. Sarah Sullivan will join Scholastic on February 1 as national […]
New Books Publishing January 25
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 novel, No Heaven for Good Boys, billed as a modern-day Oliver Twist set in Senegal. 9 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-january-26 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_January_/218674 11 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-january-26 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_January_/218676
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 be finalized.
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 over the lists they service, and those contracts usually do not allow the distributor any selectivity over working on particular titles. (Update: We originally reported, incorrectly, that S&S also sells the Regnery list. Regnery handles their own sales in the US, while S&S sells their […]