Hi. I’m Carolyn Kellogg, book editor of the L.A. Times, with this week’s newsletter. THE BIG STORY “This book is not just an appreciation of our friendship or an acknowledgment of Coach Wooden’s deep influence on my life,” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar writes in his latest book, “Coach Wooden and Me: Our... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Judith Rosen steps down as senior bookselling editor and New England correspondent, and Ed Nawotka returns as international editor; he'll also cover bookselling. Alex Green fills the New England shoes, and Emma Kantor is the new associate children’s book editor. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Let the pros show you how to have the toughest talks. Let the pros show you how to have the toughest talks.Everyone does "difficult conversations" differently. But no matter your approach, the challenge is the same: sorting out really touchy issues while sidestepping the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2016-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children's book editors from the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand: apply for the German Book Office New York editor's trip by April 11, 2016. The post Apply Now for the 2016 Children’s Book Editor’s Trip to Germany appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
In September 2015, book editor and novelist Jill Bialosky wrote “Two Kinds of Goodbyes,” an essay about tragically losing both her daughter and her son during two pregnancies. Exclusively for Slate Plus members, Bialosky reads “Two Kinds of Goodbyes” as a podcast. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2015-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
We’re posting transcripts of Working, Slate’s podcast about what people do all day, exclusively for Slate Plus members. What follows is the transcript for Season 3, Episode 6, in which Slate culture writer Aisha Harris talks to Jordan Pavlin, a book editor at Knopf, about how she identifies... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2015-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jonathan Lanman, longtime children's book editor and former v-p and editorial director at Atheneum Books for Young Readers, died on April 19. He was 62. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
One day about three years after I’d left the New Yorker to become a book editor, Alberto Vitale—former CEO of Random House, Inc., a genial, intelligent, and remarkably tan businessman, originally from Italy and Olivetti—stopped me in the hall outside my office. “Profesore, how are you?” Alberto... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2015-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ruth Bridget Coughlin, former book editor at the 'Detroit News,' passed away on December 25 in Dover, N.J. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hannah Moushabeck, age 25, is the children's department director at Odyssey Bookshop, a children's book editor for Interlink Publishing Group, and co-chair of the New England Children's Booksellers Advisory Council. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Muse pulls from Galassi's own life and follows a book editor who, Knopf explained, "is caught in the middle of the decades-long rivalry between two publishing lions over the work of a beautiful, iconic female poet." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]