Downsized, Not Dead

In addition to Free Press coming under the new S&S Publishing Group, the restructuring moved Touchstone from the responsibility of Levin to the Scribner group under Susan Moldow, while the Atria Publishing group added Howard Books. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ilya Kaminsky: ‘Fables Allow You to Break Bread With the Dead’

Published with permission from BAM and the National Book Foundation What is it about courage that astounds our ability to imagine it? Perhaps it’s because, in dire times, we’re told to forget we can—not be courageous, but imagine what that looks like, what it feels like. To imagine others,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Clive Cussler, Bestselling Author And Adventurer, Dead At 88

Cussler's page-turning novels about underwater explorer Dirk Pitt sold millions of copies. Continue reading at The Huffington Post

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Clive Cussler, Best-Selling Author and Adventurer, Is Dead at 88

His literary fantasies and larger-than-life exploits swirled together for decades. He wrote some 70 books, selling no fewer than 100 million copies, and located scores of shipwrecks. Continue reading at The New York Times

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Former Longtime St. Martin's Editor Hope Dellon Dead at 67

Hope Dellon, former longtime editor at St. Martin's Press, died on February 19 surrounded by family in New York. She was 67. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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McDermid's How the Dead Speak hits the top spot

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In ‘The Mercies,’ a deadly storm isn’t the only danger for a Scandinavian community

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Nancy Drew Is Dead! Don't Worry, the Hardy Boys Are on the Case.

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Elizabeth Wurtzel, 'Prozac Nation' Author And Memoirist, Dead At 52

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Sonny Mehta, Venerable Knopf Publisher, Is Dead at 77

Mr. Mehta was a voracious reader and instinctive decision maker who could spot great books and, coming from a paperback world, had no qualms about pushing them. Continue reading at The New York Times

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Michael Crichton’s classic thriller ‘The Andromeda Strain’ gets a deadly sequel

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