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Lex Higbee has joined as publicity manager. She was most recently a publicity manager at Bloomsbury Children’s.

Jennifer McDivitt has joined the independent sales team as field account manager, Mid-Atlantic. She was previously director of branch locations at Politics & Prose.

The Nobel-winning Nigerian author and playwright noted at a reading in Lagos that the US consulate wrote him a “rather curious love letter,” instructing him to bring his US visa in “for physical cancellation.”