Graywolf Press will publish two as-yet-untitled works of nonfiction—a book of criticism and a book on craft—by Story Prize winner and Booker Prize finalist Brandon Taylor. Editorial director Ethan Nosowsky acquired North American rights from Meredith Kaffel Simonoff at the Gernert Agency. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Blacksburg, Va.-based press has named two staff members copublishers after its cofounder and publisher, Carmen Giménez, was hired away by Graywolf Press. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-07-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
Fiona McCrae reflects on how a struggling small press became a literary powerhouse. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
An era in literary publishing is coming to an end: Fiona McCrae, 63, will retire in June 2022 after 40 years in publishing—28 of them as publisher of Graywolf Press, the venerable Minneapolis house that regularly wins prestigious awards for its books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
Mensah Demary, who worked alongside Yuka Igarashi at Catapult since its early days, vows to broaden Soft Skull Press's reach after being promoted to editor-in-chief. He replaces Igarashi, who moved on to Graywolf Press. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
Literary publishing veteran Yuka Igarashi has been tapped by Graywolf Press as executive editor, lured away from Soft Skull Press. Igarashi will assume her new position on April 8, working remotely from Hawaii. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-01 05:00:00 UTC ]
Graywolf Press, located five miles from where George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis, is donating $25,000 from the sales of its books that address racism to five local organizations selected by junior staff. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-06-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
News and Events The Editors of WLT Today the New Yorker announced the longlist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature. With such a wealth of talent on display, we don’t envy the judges’ task. To aid you, the reader, in appreciating the... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-09-17 16:53:18 UTC ]
'Milkman,' which is published by Graywolf Press in the U.S., makes Burns the first Northern Irish writer to win the prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Melville House UK has acquired the “genre-bending” memoir of American poet, critic and non-fiction author, Maggie Nelson. Managing director Zeljka Marosevic bought rights for the UK and Commonwealth, excluding Canada, from Katie Dublinski at Graywolf Press. This will be the first time Nelson’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Taeckens, marketing director at Graywolf Press, will be moving to North Carolina in mid-May to run his own marketing and publicity business. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jeffrey Shotts, executive editor at Graywolf Press, appears to have a golden touch when it comes to identifying talent. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Looking to leverage recent critical and financial successes, the literary publisher Graywolf Press is embarking on several new initiatives to further boost its visibility and to reflect that it is, in new marketing director Michael Taeckens’s words, “entering a new era.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
It was a big evening for independent publishers at the National Book Critics Circle Awards this year. Copper Canyon Press, Graywolf Press, and Lookout Books scored wins in poetry, criticism, and fiction, respectively. Edith Pearlman, whose story collection Binocular Vision took home the fiction... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The top three fiction titles in Germany were all debuts in October, led by In Times of Fading Light, which recently won the 2011 German Book Prize and is set for publication in the U.S. by Graywolf Press in fall 2013. Umberto Ecos newest book, The Prague Cemetery, which debuted at #3, is newly... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]