Caleb Carr, 68, author of popular thriller The Alienist, died of cancer on May 23 at his home in Cherry Plain, NY. The son of journalist Lucien Carr, he published 11 books, including most recently the memoir My Beloved Monster, which came out in April. Carr’s editor at Little, Brown, Joshua Kendall, said, “Caleb lived his writing life valiantly, with works of politics, history and sociology, but most astonishingly for this historian, with wildly entertaining works of fiction. These were novels that used baroque canvasses to paint intimate scenes of beauty, suffering, intellectual bravery, and pain. Pain was his final […]
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At Harper Children's, Elizabeth Agyemang, Carolina Ortiz, and Sara Schonfeld have been promoted to editor.
ABA Continues to Grow Membership
The ABA announced their annual membership data, adding 248 members over the last year. The organization now counts 2,433 bookstore members, operating in 2,844 locations. The organization indicated that “around 190 more stores are in the process of opening over the next two years,” the AP reports. As the AP explains, however, “new stores” includes pop-ups and online-only stores. ABA ceo Allison Hill also balances the increase in members against the challenges that stores continue to face: “Independent bookselling has never been dependably profitable, and Hill notes various concerns — rising costs, dwindling aid from the pandemic and the ongoing […]
BNED Releases Preliminary Fourth Quarter Data, Loses More Money
Barnes & Noble Education released preliminary results for the fiscal year ended April 27. Sales are expected to comprise $236 million for the fourth quarter — compared to $242 million a year ago — and the net loss from continuing operations was roughly $28.5 million, capping yet another year of losses. For the full year, they expect sales to register $1.567 billion, compared to $1.543 billion the year before. The net loss from continuing operations is estimated at $(63) million (with no data for now on the total loss), compared to $(90) million a year ago. Non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA was […]
Imprints: Headline Press
Headline Publishing Group in the UK is launching a new nonfiction imprint called Headline Press with a focus on politics, current affairs, history, personal development, popular science and memoir. Publisher Martin Redfern will lead, with senior commissioning editor Bianca Bexton, and assistant editor Holly Purdham also joining. The first title publishing this summer will be Power to the People by former Oxfam ceo Danny Sriskandarajah. Redfern says, “The launch of Headline Press is an exciting moment which provides clarity and identity to Headline’s serious non-fiction publishing. Headline’s guiding spirit is to publish books that people want to read, and combining these […]