The executive editor at Holiday House/Neal Porter Books was honored for what she describes as a life-long ambition: working as a children’s book editor. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
World Literature Today Announces 2024 Student Translation Prize Winners, by the Editors of WLT News and Events [email protected] Tue, 05/14/2024 - 16:27 Lucy Coleman and Madeline Jones, winners of the 2024 Student Translation PrizesWorld Literature... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-05-14 21:27:38 UTC ]
Every Tuesday, a wave of new books is published, fresh off the printing press onto the shelves of bookstores around the world. Even for a book editor like me, it gets overwhelming to keep track of all the forthcoming titles. So we’ve turned to our most trusted source for recommendations: indie... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-02-29 12:00:00 UTC ]
History books she shepherded over 44 years at Alfred A. Knopf won a raft of Pulitzers — seven in all — as well as Bancrofts, though one recipient set off a furious academic debate. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-11-03 21:36:32 UTC ]
When director Lizzie Gottlieb set out to explore the remarkable partnership between her father, celebrated book editor Robert Gottlieb, and the preeminent political biographer Robert Caro for her new documentary Turn Every Page, she knew being impartial was not only impossible, it was beside the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-01-23 09:58:01 UTC ]
Patricia Holt, book editor of the 'San Francisco Chronicle' for 17 years and the first western correspondent for 'PW,' died December 3 following a battle with cancer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
After the former book editor of the New York Times published an Op-Ed decrying trans-inclusive language, the online literary community spoke out. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-07-07 19:21:33 UTC ]
A former book editor and agent, she got her first movie studio job, at United Artists, when she was 48. She insisted on being hired as a vice president. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-08-11 20:23:42 UTC ]
Alan Lightman, Janna Levin and others recall the editor who shaped their work and a literary genre. Plus, more reading recommendations in the Friday edition of the Science Times newsletter. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-05-28 20:54:15 UTC ]
Revered children's book editor and author Ann K. Beneduce, who had a guiding hand in launching the careers of Eric Carle and many other authors and illustrators, died on March 18 in Princeton, N.J. She was 102. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
She introduced Americans to new cuisines and helped transform cooking from a domestic chore to a cultural touchstone, inspiring her daughter, Alex, to be a chef. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-02-11 23:05:52 UTC ]
After 26 years at The New Yorker, he became chief editor at Random House, overseeing works by a raft of luminaries. He wrote a half-dozen well-received books of his own. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-10-27 16:47:41 UTC ]
If you can remember as far back as February 2019, surely you recall Ian Parker’s barn-burner of a New Yorker story about the trail of deception left by book editor turned novelist Dan Mallory, whose authorship of the best-selling thriller The Woman in the Window is by far the least compelling... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-20 18:57:57 UTC ]
A jury of advertising journalists from around the world is convening in Amsterdam this week to select the best ads of the year--an honor distinct for two reasons. It's the only show judged by an impartial jury, meaning no brands or agencies vote. And it comes at both the end and the beginning of... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2019-11-19 22:51:24 UTC ]
Salman Rushdie, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Lena Dunham, Elizabeth Strout, Gary Shteyngart and Prince were among the authors she nurtured. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-09-10 22:55:59 UTC ]
He was a leading magazine and book editor who found his own measure of fame with “Bettyville,” in which he also delved into growing up gay in a small town. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-07-22 22:58:23 UTC ]
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' new documentary tells the story of a pioneering book editor, the first female African American senior editor at Random House, who brought to print such distinctive voices as Angela Davis, Gayle Jones and Muhammad Ali, as well as popular and influential collections... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-06-21 15:30:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins Children’s Books has acquired three books in a young fiction series by Lindsey Kelk, an author of adult novels and former children’s book editor. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Esteemed children’s book editor and publisher Ann Durell died at her home in Manhattan on May 6; she was 87. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Audiences have moved toward fun fiction and away from furious facts as Michael Wolff's 'Fire and Fury' takes a tumble to #3 on the iBooks list, while 'The Woman in the Window' by A.J. Finn—a book editor who now writes thrillers under a pen name—takes the #1 slot. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]