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 ]
Lit in Colour, the publisher’s partnership with the Runnymede Trust, hopes to redress imbalances in English literature coursesThe book publisher Penguin Random House has teamed up with the thinktank the Runnymede Trust to boost diversity in reading lists in schools.The partnership – Lit in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-10-24 16:11:09 UTC ]
Adrienne Tang, longtime rights director with Kids Can Press, moves to Penguin Random House Canada to create 'an entirely new in-house rights operation,' says CEO Kristen Cochrane. The post Penguin Random House Canada: Adrienne Tang to Build In-House Rights Business appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-10-23 16:11:39 UTC ]
The Center for Fiction announced the establishment of the Susan Kamil Award for Emerging Writers, a new award to honor the memory and influence of the late Kamil, who was former executive v-p and publisher of the Random House imprint. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
Meg Medina sells three to Candlewick, Random House buys a title on inequality from a data journalist, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
Wilson, previously executive director and publisher of the Feminist Press, has been named v-p and executive editor at Random House effective January 4. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
The US children's market has seen huge growth this year with increasing focus on books by people of colour and by celebrities, Barbara Marcus, president and publisher of Random House Children's Books in the US, has said. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-27 21:41:42 UTC ]
On Wednesday, Black Lives Matter protesters in Louisville and around the world waited with bated breath for an announcement from Daniel Cameron, Kentucky’s attorney general: a charging decision, or lack thereof, in the case of Breonna Taylor, an emergency medical technician who was killed by... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-09-25 12:37:49 UTC ]
Journalist who at the Sunday Times became the most admired newspaper editor of his generationSir Harold Evans, who has died aged 92, lived a life of two halves, almost two distinct lives. In his first life, he was the Manchester lad who grew up to be the most famous and most admired newspaper... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-09-24 11:55:45 UTC ]
In Britain, he helped redefine high-quality newspapers and challenged legal restrictions on the press. In America, he brought new scope and glitz to book publishing as the head of Random House. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-09-24 09:41:20 UTC ]
Random House Children’s Books is expanding the Berenstain Bears franchise with Gifts of the Spirit, a new series of faith-based picture books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
Barbara Marcus, president and publisher of Random House Children’s Books in the US, will headline this year’s Bookseller Children’s Conference, alongside speakers from World Book Day, Cocoa Girl and authors Andy Griffiths and Katherine Rundell. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-09 20:51:08 UTC ]
American writer and consultant Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, is releasing an "ambitious upgrade" of his first book, Beyond Entrepreneurship: Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company, previously unpublished in the UK. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-19 15:02:55 UTC ]
Terms of sale first enacted in March to help librarians during the Covid-19 crisis will now run through the end of the year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
At Random House and elsewhere, including his own Summit imprint, he worked with James Baldwin, Marilyn French, Hunter S. Thompson and many others. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-08-01 18:32:40 UTC ]
The program was first announced in March to encourage digital read-aloud sessions for libraries and schools forced to close by the novel coronavirus outbreak. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-07-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
Andrew Weissmann, who served as a prosecutor for Robert Mueller during an investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, is releasing a book this fall—and says it will include details on the investigation’s “mistakes.” Random House will publish Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-07-14 17:26:22 UTC ]
A “marginalized people’s history of labor in the U.S.” goes to One Signal for six figures, HarperCollins takes on a book about Prince Harry and Prince William, Willie Nelson and his sister sell a memoir to Random House, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-06-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
Pandemic Dispatches Elena Poniatowska In this column that originally appeared in La Jornada, Elena Poniatowska considers the role of editors and talks with Diego Rabasa, founder of publisher Sexto Piso. Already precarious, the pandemic lockdown has made... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-06-03 21:05:48 UTC ]
Cultural Cross Sections Elena Poniatowska In this column that originally appeared in La Jornada, Elena Poniatowska considers the role of editors and talks with Diego Rabasa, founder of publisher Sexto Piso. Already precarious, the pandemic lockdown has... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-06-03 21:05:48 UTC ]