With the year winding down, the 2018 book previews have begun in earnest. Entertainment Weekly, HuffPost, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, Nylon, and Bustle are among those to have all posted extensive lists, and iBooks has rounded up its most anticipated winter titles. (Titles noted with an asterisk are available to sample now in our Buzz Books 2017 Fall/Winter collection.) For fiction, The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer is the consensus pick, appearing on all but the iBooks list, as it publishes on April 3. Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks (Little Brown, 1/16), Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage (Algonquin 2/6), and Chloe Benjamin’s The […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
Avedon Estate Calls for Withdrawal, Correction of Biography
The Richard Avedon Foundation called on Spiegel & Grau to cease publication of the just-released biography Avedon: Something Personal by Norma Stevens and Steven Aronson, saying that “much of the book needs to be corrected or retracted, if not entirely disavowed and discontinued, due to alleged factual inaccuracies.” The foundation asserts “the book is filled with countless inaccuracies” while also claiming “it has been written under false pretenses” and “contains substantial sections that are taken, with only light editing and rewriting, from an unfinished work of fiction that Richard Avedon had been writing prior to his death in collaboration with author Doon […]
Scout Press Wins Roupenian “Cat Person” Auction
Simon & Schuster imprint Scout Press has won the auction for a short story collection, YOU KNOW YOU WANT THIS, and a novel by Kristen Roupenian, whose story “Cat Person” went viral earlier this month and became the New Yorker’s second-most-read article for all of 2017. Executive editor Alison Callahan acquired Roupenian’s collection and novel from Jenni Ferrari-Adler at Union Literary in a major deal, for seven figures (in excess of $1.2 million, according to multiple sources). UK rights to the story collection sold to Jonathan Cape in a pre-empt last Wednesday, and the US auction carried over to this week. Subsequent […]
Forthcoming: Farrow’s Book, Ramos On Immigrant Experience, and An Audiobook Musical
Noted as an aside in recent coverage, Ronan Farrow‘s long-expected first book WAR ON PEACE: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence will be published by Norton on April 24, 2018. Originally expected in 2015, Farrow’s book was first sold to Penguin Press in 2013 in a high-profile deal, reportedly for about $1.3 million. At the time, the working title was PANDORA’S BOX: How American Military Aid Creates America’s Enemies. Agent Lynn Nesbit tells us that Farrow, working quietly on the Harvey Weinstein story, was late in delivering to Penguin Press, which cancelled their original agreement as a […]
Briefs: Collusion Book, HBG Buys Meadowbrook, and More
Forthcoming Foreign correspondent for the Guardian Luke Harding’s Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump Win the White House publishes in 10 countries on November 16, with Guardian Faber releasing in the UK and Vintage publishing in the US, as a $16.95 trade paperback. The book focuses the “the gripping inside story” of the dossier compiled by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele in 2016, but promises to add “exclusive new material and key sources from the intelligence community.” It is based on conversations with people close to Steele and draws on a wide range of sources in the US and UK. The book […]
Wieseltier Apologizes For “Offenses” Against Women, As Jobs Pulls Backing for His New Journal
Laurene Powell Jobs’s Emerson Collective pulled the plug on Leon Wieseltier’s about-to-launch new journal Idea “upon receiving information related to past inappropriate workplace conduct.” In a statement, Wieseltier said: “For my offenses against some of my colleagues in the past I offer a shaken apology and ask for their forgiveness. The women with whom I worked are smart and good people. I am ashamed to know that I made any of them feel demeaned and disrespected. I assure them that I will not waste this reckoning. “And I am profoundly sorry to my extraordinary collaborators at the journal we began […]