Libby McGuire has been named senior vice president and publisher of the Atria Publishing Group, starting April 30 and reporting to Jonathan Karp. She has been a literary agent at The Gernert Company since early 2017, and was and executive vice president and publisher of Ballantine Bantam Dell, where she worked for 16 years, until late 2015….
Greer Is Surprise Pulitzer Fiction Winner
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…
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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…
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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….
‘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…
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…