The Kirkus Prize announced their finalists, with the winners to be named on November 5: Fiction Black Sunday, by Tola Rotimi Abraham (Catapult) Fiebre Tropical, by Juli Delgado Lopera (Feminist Press) The Lying Life of Adults, by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein (Europa Editions) Luster, by Raven Leilani (FSG) (Sample an excerpt now in…
People, Etc.: Howard to Retire from Doubleday
Gerald Howard, vice president, executive editor, Doubleday, is retiring at the end of the year, after working at the house since 1998. Publisher and editor-in-chief of Doubleday Bill Thomas, writes, “Gerry has decided to spend more time with his wonderful wife, Susanne, travel and work on his biography of the legendary editor Malcolm Cowley for…
New Books Publishing September 8
The big releases continue, with fiction from Fredrik Bachman, Sigrid Nunez and Ruth Ware, plus nonfiction from John Cleese, Jane Fonda, Jenna Bush Hager, Reed Hastings, Jay Shetty and more. As in previous weeks, our sample Bookshop and Aerbook store carousels provide easy displays of books publishing today in need of attention and support, featuring: 17 new works…
Corporate: Early Retirement At HMH, and Judge Throws Out Parneros’s Defamation Claim Against BN
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced that 166 employees — five percent of the company’s workforce — opted to participate in a voluntary early retirement incentive program, which had first been announced August 6 in the company’s quarterly report. The program was offered to all US-based employees who are at least 55 years old and have at…
Frankfurt Book Fair Cancels Live Exhibition
The Frankfurt Book Fair has been forced to abandon plans to convene a smaller, live version of the trade event in October, due to new quarantine rules effective October 1 that would “make it nearly impossible for European exhibitors and trade visitors to participate.” US publishers were already blocked from attending, Canada had postponed their…
Briefs
People Natascha Morris joins The Tobias Literary Agency as literary agent where she will rep picture books, middle grade, and YA. She was previously a literary agent at Bookends. David Graeber, 59, anthropologist and author of Bull***t Jobs, died on September 2 in a hospital in Venice. His publisher FSG writes, “We are deeply saddened…