Ed Champion confirms that Kris Lindgren is the other member of the Los Angeles Times Book Review team being laid off: “Her last day is Friday. This is a terrible loss for the books section. I worked with Kris on a few reviews, and she was a fantastic editor, often forcing me to come up with some taut sentences in a very small window of time.”Blog post
Personnel
Another Book Review Editor Gone
As part of the combination of buyouts and layoffs cutting deeply at the Tribune Company’s Hartford Courant (where they intend to eliminate 25 percent of editorial pages), books editor since 2002 Carole Goldberg is leaving the paper.
Personnel, Etc.
Book review editor (and arts writer) at The Tennessean Jonathan Marx e-mailed contacts to let them know he has left the newspaper to take a job as publications manager for the Nashville Symphony. Del Commune Enterprises is now scouting in France for Calmann-Levy and Le Livre du Poche and in Spain for Salamandra Ediciones. As of August 1, they will also scout for Jorge Zahar Editor in Brazil.
Personnel News
Lane Jantzen will join Random House as imprint sales director for Random House Publisher Servies, reporting to Skip Dye. on July 21st. He will work with North Atlantic Books, Shambhala, Osprey Publishing, Steerforth Press, Vertical, Welcome Books, Hatherleigh Press, New York Review Books, and Other Press. Jantzen has been Director of National Accounts Marketing at Perseus Books Group with primary responsibility for Barnes & Noble. At Scholastic’s trade publishing division, David Posner has been hired Subsidiary Rights Associate. He has had several positions with literary and talent agencies, as well as in the film industry. In promotions, Jonathan Valuckas has […]
Rachel Donadio Will Run NYT Rome Bureau
NYT Book Review editor and essayist Rachel Donadio announced via e-mail that she is leaving TBR to work as the Times’ bureau chief in Rome, starting this fall.Observer item
Kay Ryan, "Outsider Who Revels in Wordplay," Next Poet Laureate
Winner of “a carriage full of poetry prizes for her funny and philosophical work, including awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1994, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, worth $100,000,” Kay Ryan, 62, will be appointed to succeed Charles Simic as the country’s 16th poet laureate today. (She takes the post in the fall.) NEA chairman Dana Gioia calls her the “thoughtful, bemused, affectionate, deeply skeptical outsider.” Ryan jokes with the Washington Post: “I thought I might take it upon myself to prevent all bad poetry from being published during my reign.” She explains […]