The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin has acquired the archive of the late David Foster Wallace. The collection will include materials for his forthcoming, posthumous work The Pale King upon the book’s publication, scheduled for April 2011. Little, Brown is donating their own DFW correspondence and internal memos to the archive, too. The center has already posted a few samples from the collection online.Release Macmillan Audio has hired Liz Edelstein as digital content & marketing manager. She was a senior program manager at America Online/Netscape Communications and is the author of twelve romance/science fiction novels.
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Agent Jud Laghi has formed the Jud Laghi Agency. He will continue to be affiliated with LJK Literary Management, where he was a senior agent, and will share office space and collaborate on projects with Kirshbaum and his colleagues. Laghi says, “I’ll continue to represent primarily non-fiction projects, especially narrative, popular culture and business, along with literary fiction and thrillers. And I’m excited to both see, and partake in, what new opportunities will arise for authors in our rapidly evolving industry.” Barnes & Noble.com has hired Jonathan Shar as general manager, digital newsstand and emerging content, responsible for “creating and […]
FSG's Lorin Stein New Paris Review Editor
Lorin Stein, 37, will take over as editor of the Paris Review in April when Philip Gourevitch steps down. He has been an editor at Farrar, Straus since 1998. He says: “The Paris Review is an institution like nothing else in American letters. It stands for the newest, the best, the most daring in writing and art, and that’s been the case now for more than fifty years. To be entrusted with that tradition is a true honor.” Publisher Antonio Weiss notes “Lorin has an uncommon literary sensibility and eye for new talent.”
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Grand Central’s romance imprint Forever will expand from 36 titles per year to 48 in in 2011. As part of that expansion, Selina McLemore has been promoted to senior editor and will become second-in-command to editorial director Amy Pierpont. Alex Logan has been promoted to associate editor, adding romance authors to her list as well as acquiring more for GCP and 5 Spot. Biographer and director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library Jean Strouse has won the first BIO Award, to be given each year by the Biographers […]
DeFiore Absorbs the Creative Culture
Following the recently-announced departure of co-founder Mary Ann Naples, the remaining staff of the literary agency The Creative Culture has become part of DeFiore and Company. Agents Debra Goldstein, Laura Nolan, Matthew Elblonk and Karen Gerwin are all joining DeFiore in the agency’s Flatiron offices, with company now comprising nine agents. In other personnel news, at the Random House publishing group marketing department, Matt Schwartz has been promoted to the new position of vp, director of digital marketing and strategy, reporting to director of marketing Sanyu Dillon. “In addition to overseeing our digital marketing initiatives, he will also partner in […]
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David Patterson has left Holt, where he was an editor, and starts today at Foundry Literary + Media as an agent. Irish bookselling chain Hughes & Hughes declared bankruptcy. Ulster Bank appointed David Carson of Deloitte as receiver. The company blamed a variety of factors, from reduced air traffic which suppressed business at its successful airport bookstores to higher rents and the internet.Irish Times Gordon Wood won the American History Book Prize for Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, which includes the title of American Historian Laureate. Mexican author and guerrilla movement scholar Carlos Montemayor, 62, […]