The Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon, with LESS by Andrew Sean Greer winning the fiction prize. (Christopher Buckley had written in the NYT last July: “Convulsed in laughter a few pages into Andrew Sean Greer’s fifth novel, Less, I wondered with regret why I wasn’t familiar with this author. My bad. His admirers have included John Updike, Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers and John Irving. Less is the funniest, smartest and most humane novel I’ve read since Tom Rachman’s 2010 debut, The Imperfectionists.”) LESS is the rare fiction winner that was not prominent among other awards nominees or “best of the year” […]
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Nebraska Book Company announced that chief financial officer Jay Amond has been promoted to president and ceo, succeeding Rick Bunka. Michelle Triant has been promoted to publicity manager at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. At Random House Children’s, Casey Moses has been promoted to junior designer. Former Barnes & Noble ceo Ron Boire will take over as ceo of Midwest furniture and mattress retailer Art Van. Rachel Hecht Children’s Scouting has been appointed scout for Beijing Yutian Hanfeng in China. Co-owner of independent sales rep firm Faherty & Associates, Thomas Faherty, Jr., 63, died last Thursday of cancer. The company told Shelf Awareness, in part, […]
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Steven Tran has been promoted to sales associate at Soho Press. Jessica Tribble has been promoted to senior editor at Thomas & Mercer. Rachel Cass, head buyer for trade books at Harvard Book Store, will expand her role to also become buying & inventory manager, taking on responsibility for all merchandise buying for the company. Awards The Man Booker International Prize announced its shortlist, with the winner to be named on May 22: Vernon Subutex 1, by Virginie Despentes, translated by Frank Wynne (MacLehose Press) The White Book, by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith (Portobello Books) The World Goes […]
‘Boy Who Came Back From Heaven’ Author Sues Tyndale
Alex Malarkey, the quadriplegic boy whose story comprised the 2010 bestseller The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven, which was later determined to be a fabrication concocted by his father, has sued Tyndale House for defamation, appropriation of his likeness, and exploitation of a person with a disability, all stemming from the core complaint that the book, was allegedly “based on lies.” According to the 32-page complaint filed in DuPage County, Illinois circuit court (and obtained by Courthouse News) Tyndale House “has made millions of dollars off Alex’s identity and an alleged autobiographical story of his life” but in spite […]
Swedish Academy Secretary Sara Danius Resigns Over Harassment Scandal
Permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Sara Danius stepped down on Thursday after a three hour emergency meeting of academy members, reportedly forced out. The Academy has been embroiled in scandal since Jean-Claude Arnault was accused of multiple incidents of sexual assault and harassment last December, as well as leaking the winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature in advance on multiple occasions. As we reported on Monday, three members of the Academy resigned recently after losing a vote to remove Katarina Frostenson, the Academy member married to Arnault. Danius is said to have been pushed out by critics who blamed her for weak leadership during […]
Legrand’s Furyborn Tops May’s Library Reads
Claire Legrand’s novel Furyborn tops May’s Library Reads list. You can read an excerpt now in our Buzz Books 2018 Young Adult Spring/Summer sampler. Also on the list are Araminta Hall’s Our Kind of Cruelty, Aimee Molloy’s The Perfect Mother, and Sarah Winman’s Tin Man, all of which are also available to sample now in Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer. The rest of the picks: The Other Lady Vanishes, by Amanda Quick The Death of Mrs. Westaway, by Ruth Ware Love and Ruin, by Paula McLain Paper Ghosts, by Julia Heaberlin The Favorite Sister, by Jessica Knoll The Ensemble, by Aja Gabel