After our successful adult Buzz Editors Panel last night, we are open for registration for our second virtual Buzz Books Young Adult Editors Panel, convening on Wednesday, June 8 at noon Eastern. Our editors panels are curated, marquis, free events; no paid tickets, not dozens of sessions. Once again, we are honored to have the American Booksellers Association join us as co-presenter, with our own Erin Somers as host. You can register here — and the first 25 booksellers who enroll will get a package of galleys for the featured titles. Our just-released digital sampler, Buzz Books 2022: Fall/Winter includes substantial excerpts from the […]
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Buzz Books Fall/Winter Preview: Nonfiction Part 2
Our season overview from Buzz Books 2022: Fall/Winter concludes with nonfiction, part two, including social issues, history and crime, and business, science and technology. SOCIAL ISSUES Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us (Farrar, Straus, 9/13)* Ben Bowlin, Matt Frederick, Noel Brown, Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know (Flatiron, 10/11) Douglas Brinkley, Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, and the Great Environmental Awakening (Harper, 11/15) Timothy A. Cavell, PhD, and Lauren B. Quetsch, PhD, Good Enough Parenting: A Six-Point Plan for a Stronger Relationship With Your Child (APA LifeTools, 9/23)* […]
Paradise Media Sells The Believer Back to McSweeney’s
The Believer Magazine will return to McSweeney’s, after being purchased by SEO company Paradise Media recently. According to the New York Times, Paradise Media agreed to sell it back to the publisher “at what McSweeney’s described as a ‘meaningful’ loss.” (Yes, this is a bit unclear. If Paradise took a loss, why are they not the source for this? Or is McSweeney’s saying their organization incurred a loss? We asked.) The Believer was shuttered this spring by the Black Mountain Institute at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and was sold to Paradise Media for $225,000. McSweeney’s reportedly bid to try […]
Buzz Books Fall/Winter Preview: Nonfiction Part 1
Last week we launched our Buzz Books 2022: Fall/Winter sampler, with excerpts from an array of great forthcoming literary and debut fiction. If you haven’t downloaded your copy yet, the “trade edition” is available now from NetGalley or Edelweiss, or find the consumer editions all linked at our main Buzz Books website. And on Wednesday we’ll convene our live Buzz Books Editors Panel with moderator Bobby Finger hosting six editors and their authors discussing some of the season’s potential breakout titles. Today our season preview from our Buzz Books 2022: Fall/Winter sampler continues with nonfiction. Because of the number of titles, we have divided the […]
Paradise Media Bought The Believer After McSweeney’s Offered to Take It Back for Free
In a story that unfolded all last week, The Believer magazine was recently purchased by Paradise Media, a digital marketing company specializing in SEO. The purchase was flagged on Twitter after people noticed that one of the magazine’s articles had been replaced by clickbait content titled “25 Best Hookup Sites for Flings, New Trysts, and Casual Dating.” The Believer was purchased by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’s Black Mountain Institute from McSweeney’s in 2017 for $650,000, and was shuttered this spring. UNLV College of Liberal Arts dean Jennifer Keene cited financial problems: “The Believer consumed a significant portion of […]
Buzz Books Fall/Winter Preview: Commercial Fiction
We continue to present extracts from our big Buzz Books 2022 Fall/Winter overview, today highlighting commercial fiction. Did you download your copy yet? Get the “trade edition” from NetGalley or Edelweiss. or find the consumer editions all linked at our main Buzz Books website. This fall, there are new titles on deck from bestsellers like Stephen King, Veronica Roth, Josh Malerman, and Elin Hilderbrand. Our sampler features work by T. Greenwood, Alice Feeney, Joel Dicker, and others. Titles excerpted in Buzz Books are noted in boldface and with an asterisk. (Please remember: Because we prepared this preview many months in advance, titles, content, and publication dates are all […]