Herman Graf, 91, died on February 27 in Queens, NY. Graf began his publishing career in 1961, working at McGraw-Hill, Doubleday, Arco Books, and then Grove Press before founding Carroll & Graf with Kent Carroll in 1982. The company was acquired by Avalon in 1998 and Graf became editor-at-large in 2003. After Avalon was acquired by Perseus in 2007, Graf became an acquiring editor and consultant at Skyhorse.
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Imprints: Outsider Editions, Atria Australia, And More
Doubleday is launching a new trade paperback imprint called Outsider Editions. VP, executive editor at Doubleday Thomas Gebremedhin will lead the imprint, adding editorial director, Outsider Editions to his title. According to the publisher, the imprint “will be a reissue series dedicated to bringing attention to significant literary works—novels, stories, history, memoir, essays—that have been neglected or underappreciated.” Doubleday executive director of art & design Oliver Munday will design the books. First titles will appear in the summer of 2026 and will include JOURNEY TO NOWHERE by Shiva Naipaul, NATIVES OF MY PERSON by George Lamming, SQUANDERING THE BLUE by Kate […]
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Read With Jenna March Pick
March Library Reads, Indie Next
Library Reads chose Saltwater by Katy Hays as its No. 1 pick for March.