The top pick for June's Library Reads is The Quiet Tenant, by Clémence Michallon.
Buzz Books Editors Panel
Buzz Books 2023: Fall/Winter will hold a free virtual event for booksellers, librarians, media and other book lovers on May 17th at 7 pm EDT. Join five editors in conversation with their authors, as they describe exciting forthcoming titles excerpted in Buzz Books. Co-sponsored by Publishers Lunch and the American Booksellers Association. Email robin@publishersmarketplace.com for registration information. Anise Vance/Hush Harbor (Harper/Hanover Square) Anna Bliss/Bonfire Night (Kensington) Inci Atrek/Holiday Country (Macmillan/Flatiron) Nishita Parekh/The Night of the Storm (PRH/Dutton) Kim Coleman Foote/Coleman Hill (Zando/SJP Lit)
People 5/15
Abby Endler has joined as marketing manager at Vintage and Anchor, reporting to effective today, reporting to Lauren Weber. She was previously in publicity at Knopf.
Rutgers BNED Employees Win Union Vote
Workers at the Barnes & Noble College store at Rutgers University in New Jersey voted unanimously to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). The union represents approximately 70 booksellers, baristas, cashiers, and non-supervisory employees. The union now moves to negotiate a contract with management, planning to address, “continued safety issues amid the rebound of the pandemic including workplace harassment, substandard pay for the industry below that of independent booksellers, unstable scheduling practices, a lack of structure when it comes to job duties and tasks at work, and favoritism by management.”
Buzz Books Fall/Winter Preview: Nonfiction Part 1
Last week we launched our Buzz Book 2023: Fall/Winter sampler, with excerpts from an array of great fiction. If you haven’t downloaded your copy yet, the “trade edition” is available now from NetGalley or Edelweiss or find the consumer editions all linked at our main Buzz Books website. And this Wednesday, May 17th we’ll convene our live Buzz Books Editors Panel with moderator Leigh Haber hosting five editors and their authors discussing some of the season’s potential breakout titles. Be sure to register today. Our season preview installment from Buzz Books 2023: Fall/Winter continues with these nonfiction categories: Essays & Criticism; Biographies and Memoirs; Politics & Current Events. As always, biographies […]
Flatiron’s Big Summer Book is BTS Oral History
Flatiron Books confirmed to various media outlets that their major nonfiction book publishing on July 9 is BEYOND THE STORY: 10-Year Record of BTS, an oral history of the blockbuster Korean band written with journalist Myeongseok Kang. Big Hit Music will publish in South Korea. It was translated into English by Anton Hur, Clare Richards, and Slin Jung. The announcement follows a week of speculation about the book, which was launched to booksellers with a plan to reveal the author and title on June 13. Initial guesses that it could have been a Taylor Swift memoir drove initial press and […]