Madelyn Blaney and Allie Roche have been promoted to associate editor.
McNally Jackson
New York magazine published a long profile of McNally Jackson owner Sarah McNally, charting the rise of her New York bookstore chain. McNally’s parents were the owners of McNally Robinson, a Canadian independent bookstore chain, and she opened her original Prince Street store with money from her grandfather, after leaving a job at Basic Books.
Notable details include that she is considering opening a location on the Upper West Side, that she is focused on book clubs and building community, that her reprint imprint McNally Editions made only a reported $10,000 last year, and that she has “become pals with James Daunt.”
The profile is mostly favorable, but does include some criticism from anonymous staff members about low pay (over the holidays the store advertised an hourly rate $1 above minimum wage) and a “contentious” unionization process in which “McNally admits to being personally hurt.”
Additionally, about McNally Editions, the magazine writes that some staff were unhappy about the hire of Lorin Stein to edit the imprint, “considering it a flat-footed move.”
“McNally acknowledged their complaints without changing her course… Stein, she said, was ‘definitely guilty’ of misconduct, but he hadn’t deserved permanent exile.”
