Farrar, Straus will publish a new collection of poems by new Nobel laureate Louise Glück some time in 2021: Winter Recipes from the Collective. Her longtime editor and president of FSG Jonathan Galassi said: “Louise Glück is one of the rare contemporary poets whose work has the power to speak directly to others through her great and subtle art…. It’s wonderful to have her astringent, witty, profoundly human voice, a voice that so richly reflects our own inner feelings and reactions, so broadly recognized. I’m sure the prize will bring her many, many new readers.” The publisher has also gone […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
New Books Publishing October 5
It’s another packed first week of the month, with big new releases in all categories. As in previous weeks, our sample Bookshop and Aerbook store carousels provide easy displays of books publishing today in need of attention and support, featuring: 19 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-6 23 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-6 29 new children’s and YA titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-children-s-titles-publishing-in-orctoberber We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make sure your key titles are on our radar, now you can use this […]
New Books Publishing September 29
Today’s new releases include fiction from Marilynne Robinson, Nick Hornby and Nicholas Sparks — and in nonfiction, Mariah Carey’s memoir, biographies of Jimmy Carter and James Baker, and more. As in previous weeks, our sample Bookshop and Aerbook store carousels provide easy displays of books publishing today in need of attention and support, featuring: 10 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-september-29 10 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-september-29 More new children’s and YA titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-children-s-titles-publishing-in-september We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to […]
New Books Publishing September 22
Today’s new releases include Jodi Picoult’s latest novel, and nonfiction from the late Elijah Cummings and H.R. McMaster. As in previous weeks, our sample Bookshop and Aerbook store carousels provide easy displays of books publishing today in need of attention and support, featuring: 9 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-september-22 14 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-september-22 More new children’s and YA titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-children-s-titles-publishing-in-september We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make sure your key titles are on our radar, now you can […]
First Volume of President Obama’s Memoir to Publish November 17
Consistent with the leak earlier this week, Crown announced that it will publish Barack Obama’s A PROMISED LAND on November 17, for simultaneous release in 25 languages. This will be the first in what the publisher now says is two volumes of presidential memoirs. Crown says they will print 3 million hardcovers, and once again the editor is Rachel Klayman. The book is 768 pages long and will sell for $45 (with the ebook at $17.99 and the digital audio, read by the author, at $40). Tour information will be announced later, and there is no date for the second […]
People, Etc.
Longtime Holt executive editor Barbara Jones will leave the company on October 16, “first to dedicate a few weeks to getting out the vote and thereafter to apply her editorial pencil elsewhere.” Editor-in-chief Sarah Crichton wrote to staff, “An active member of Holt’s D&I Council from its early days, and a dear friend as well as a colleague, Barbara will be sorely missed.” The expanding ABA board is adding Black booksellers Jake Cumsky-Whitlock at Solid State Books in Washington, DC and Melanie Knight at Books Inc. in San Francisco, CA immediately. For now they will serve until the next election, […]