From LOLITA IN THE AFTERLIFE, edited by Jenny Minton Quigley. Reprinted by permission of Vintage Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Essay copyright © 2021 by Robin Givhan. Compilation copyright © 2021 by Jenny Minton Quigley. The...
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[ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-03-17 11:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House Audio has launched Ahab, a global online casting platform for voiceover actors in any business. The platform was originally developed as an internal tool for PRH's audiobook producers.
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[ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House UK is publishing a series of essays from its authors, including Richard Dawkins and Charlie Mackesy, offering reasons to feel hopeful about the months and years ahead.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-01 14:00:07 UTC ]
The merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster has the potential to touch every part of the industry, including how much authors get paid and how bookstores are run.
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[ Source: The New York Times | 2021-02-25 10:00:22 UTC ]
Literary pivot alert! Yesterday, Entertainment Weekly announced we’re getting a new novel from A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility author Amor Towles, out from Penguin Random House on October 5. Towles told EW that he “likes to mix it up,” and he has; while his previous novels centered...
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[ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-02-18 17:03:11 UTC ]
Some good news: today, Publishers Weekly reported that We Need Diverse Books is partnering with Penguin Random House on a series of programs to get more books by Black writers published. The Black Creatives Fund initiative involves a “Revisions Workshop”; a mentoring program; and marketing...
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[ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-02-17 18:23:38 UTC ]
Operating under the Black Creatives Fund banner, We Need Diverse Books is partnering with Penguin Random House on a series of programs designed to get more books by Black writers published.
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[ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
Jonathan Karp, who took the helm at Simon & Schuster after the loss of its formidable former c.e.o. Carolyn Reidy, reveals how he intends to navigate the pandemic, a Penguin Random House takeover, and US politics
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-11 15:06:22 UTC ]
Penguin Random House UK is to publish four books from Amanda Gorman, the youngest presidential inaugural poet in US history, including a special edition of “The Hill We Climb” which she read at Joe Biden's inauguration.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-08 03:19:06 UTC ]
Several organizations sent a letter to the Department of Justice on Friday urging it to stop Penguin Random House from purchasing Simon & Schuster.
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[ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-01-29 22:12:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House owner Bertelsmann has extended Thomas Rabe’s contract as chairman and c.e.o. for another five years.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-21 01:01:48 UTC ]
Patrick Nolan has been promoted to publisher of Penguin Books, among several other role changes at Penguin Random House imprint Viking Penguin.
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[ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House has named David Drake, Scott Shannon, Kara Welsh, and Chris Jackson to new roles with expanded responsibilities, among others.
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[ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
In an open letter published on the company's website, PRH UK c.e.o. Tom Weldon has expressed confidence in the industry's prospects on entering a third lockdown, and revealed Penguin Random House UK is donating a further 15,000 more books to communities most affected by the coronavirus...
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-12 10:23:48 UTC ]
Penguin Random House Children’s Books has scooped Lies Like Wildfire, the “compulsive and explosive” debut YA novel from Jennifer Lynn Alvarez.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-07 03:46:12 UTC ]
Cindy Spiegel and Julie Grau are starting their own publishing company, after seeing their eponymous imprint shuttered by Penguin Random House in a reorganization at the company late last year.
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[ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House Canada is splitting the Knopf Random House Canada publishing group into two different imprints: Knopf Canada and Random House Canada. Each imprint has new leadership and will operate independently.
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[ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-10 05:00:00 UTC ]
The planned merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster may be global but it's bad for books both foreign and domestic.
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[ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-12-04 19:25:12 UTC ]
Malorie Blackman is completing her Noughts & Crosses YA series with the sixth and final novel, Endgame, publishing with Penguin Random House Children’s UK in summer 2021.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-02 18:32:59 UTC ]
Nobody has a human right to a lucrative book contract without regard for whether their opinions are sound or valuableJordan Peterson, the Canadian psychology professor and lobster-loving life coach who came to public attention after refusing to use the preferred pronouns of transgender people,...
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[ Source: The Guardian | 2020-12-02 13:56:38 UTC ]