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Former Knopf executive Reagan Arthur returns to her previous publisher, Hachette Book Group

NEW YORK — Weeks after being let go as the publisher of Alfred A. Knopf, Reagan Arthur is returning to her former employer, Hachette Book Group, as a senior executive who will edit authors from across the company and head her own imprint. “I couldn’t be happier to come back to the Hachette colleagues and authors I admire so deeply,” …

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6 months, 1 week ago

The week’s bestselling books, June 16

LA Times

The Women by Kristin Hannah An intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. Eruption by Michael Crichton, James Patterson A history-making rupture and military secrets converge on Hawaii’s Big Island in a thriller from two bestselling legends. An Unfinished Love Story by Doris Kearns Goodwin The historian weaves together …

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7 months ago

Black former players to play in Negro Leagues All-Star Game tribute on Memorial Day weekend

LA Times

Hall of Fame player Eddie Murray views the new exhibit titled “The Souls of the Game: Voices of Black Baseball.” The names trigger memories recent and long ago. Team captains CC Sabathia and Chris Young held a draft of recently retired Black players to fill rosters for the game, which anchors a Memorial Day weekend of festivities at the National …

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7 months ago

2 top Penguin Random House editors leaving amid ongoing changes at publishing house

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Two top editors at Penguin Random House are leaving as the country’s leading trading publisher continues to transform during a period of uncertain revenues and generational change. The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a Penguin Random House division, announced Monday the dismissals of Alfred A. Knopf publisher Reagan Arthur and Pantheon/Schocken publisher Lisa Lucas. In a year-end company …

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1 year ago

Revival of Negro Leagues’ All-Star Game to include five former Dodgers players

LA Times

Josh Barfield, right, and CC Sabathia answer questions at a news conference Tuesday at the Major League Baseball winter meetings in Nashville. The two will play in the May 25 Hall of Fame East-West Classic that will honor the Negro Leagues’ East-West All-Star Game, which was played from 1933 to 1962. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will …

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1 year, 3 months ago

'The Other Black Girl' on Hulu: How Zakiya Dalila Harris' life inspired it

LA Times

Four years ago, Zakiya Dalila Harris quit her job as an editor at Knopf Doubleday to do something that, at the time, even she thought was crazy: write a novel. On Wednesday, “The Other Black Girl” — a 10-episode series developed by Harris and Rashida Jones and produced by the Onyx Collective, Disney’s diverse storytelling division — premiered on the …

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1 year, 5 months ago

The light/dark touch of Milan Kundera, MT at 90, celebrating the ‘Furies’ and more - The Hindu

The Hindu

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. He told the American writer Philip Roth, who edited a series, Writers from the Other Europe, and promoted Kundera’s The Book of Laughter…, “if someone told me as a boy: One day you will see your nation vanish from the world, I would have considered it nonsense… but after the …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Vogue divides opinion with controversial job posting for Anna Wintour’s assistant: ‘Devil Wears Prada’

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1 year, 6 months ago

Robert Gottlieb, celebrated literary editor of Toni Morrison and Robert Caro, dies at 92

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Robert Gottlieb, the inspired and eclectic literary editor whose brilliant career was launched with Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22” and continued for decades with such Pulitzer Prize-winning classics as Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” and Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker,” has died at age 92. He was otherwise so absorbed in work — he was looking over early proofs of a …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Robert Gottlieb, celebrated literary editor of Toni Morrison and Robert Caro, dies at 92

LA Times

Robert Gottlieb, the inspired and eclectic literary editor whose brilliant career was launched with Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22” and continued for decades with such Pulitzer Prize-winning classics as Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” and Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker,” has died at age 92. He was otherwise so absorbed in work — he was looking over early proofs of a Cynthia Ozick book …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Bestsellers List Sunday, April 30

LA Times

SoCal Bestsellers Hardcover fiction 1. Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld A cynical TV comedy writer who has given up on love falls for a pop star in a novel from the author of “Prep” and “Eligible.” 5. Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson Old-money wealth gets a once-over in a novel following three women in a Brooklyn family. I’m Glad My …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Review: A harrowing shipwreck and mutiny in ‘The Wager’

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“The Wager: A Take of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder,” by David Grann The Wager, a British war ship, crashed onto rocks amid stormy seas off the coast of Patagonia in 1741. Sailors on a secret wartime mission had already dealt with typhus, lice, blinding squalls, frostbite, worm-eaten biscuits, scurvy and the death of comrades since they set sail months earlier. …

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2 years, 1 month ago

15 fiction books that follow their own rules — and make great gifts

LA Times

This is part of the L.A. Times 2022 Gift Guide. $30 at Penguin Random House Fiona and Jane Jean Chen Ho’s ode to friendship and growing up is a sort of dual coming-of-age story, featuring two besties who cope with family secrets and early-adult conflicts within a highly specific milieu — Taiwanese American Los Angeles — even as their dilemmas …

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2 years, 3 months ago

5 new books to read this week

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. This debut novel is a slow burn that is thought-provoking as it unravels not only …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Books of the month: From Ian McEwan’s Lessons to Terry Pratchett: A Life in Footnotes

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. New novels by Ian McEwan, Joyce Carol Oates and …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Stephen King testifies for government in books merger trial

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Stephen King didn’t break any legal ground on the stand Tuesday as he testified against his own publisher’s efforts to merge with Penguin Random House. “It was a real pleasure to hear your testimony,” the otherwise businesslike U.S. District Judge Florence J. Pan told the author after he finished speaking as a government witness in a federal antitrust …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Stephen King, author of Carrie, The Shining, to testify against publisher over company merger

ABC

As the US Department of Justice works to convince a federal judge that a merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster would damage the careers of some of the world's most popular authors, it is leaning in part on the testimony of a writer who has thrived like few others — Stephen King. Key points: The DOJ is …

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2 years, 5 months ago

She went to Colombia to exhume her grandfather — and returned with a blazing memoir

LA Times

On the Shelf The Man Who Could Move Clouds By Ingrid Rojas Contreras Doubleday: 320 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. It’s no knock on Ingrid Rojas Contreras’ new memoir, “The Man Who Could Move Clouds,” to say that it sometimes reads like …

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2 years, 5 months ago

'Rogues' showcases Patrick Radden Keefe's preternatural gift for reading people

NPR

'Rogues' showcases Patrick Radden Keefe's preternatural gift for reading people Enlarge this image Doubleday Doubleday In the first essay in Rogues, the new collection from journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, a wine collector is explaining why he's determined to find out the truth about the possibly counterfeit bottles he bought years before. In "Crime Family," Keefe profiles Astrid Holleeder, a Dutch …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Trump reacted 'bitterly' when longtime loyalist Hope Hicks didn't believe his voter fraud claims: book

Raw Story

A new book claims that multiple loyalists in former President Donald Trump's inner circle did not believe his claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election -- but he completely blew them off and instead sought solace in the conspiracy theories being peddled by attorney Sidney Powell. In an excerpt of the book published in the New York Times on …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Anna Wintour didn’t remember former assistant who wrote The Devil Wears Prada, book claims

The Independent

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2 years, 8 months ago

Review: ‘In on the Joke’ showcases trailblazing women comics

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“In on the Joke: The Original Queens of Stand-Up Comedy” by Shawn Levy The first women stand-up comics broke down barriers and paved the way for a multitude of women who followed them. Shawn Levy’s “In on the Joke” offers a breezy tour through some of the biggest names, from Jackie “Moms” Mabley, a Black comedian who headlined at the …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Review: Margaret Atwood’s writings both funny, frightening

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“Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021,” by Margaret Atwood Canadian poet, novelist and literary critic Margaret Atwood’s diverse and intense interests in subjects from feminism to climate change are on full display in her latest book, a collection of some 50 shorter pieces of her writing. “Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021” pulls together …

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2 years, 11 months ago

10 books to help you understand inequality — and possible solutions

LA Times

In “Maid,” author Stephanie Land offers a firsthand account of life as a single mother struggling under the weight of crushing poverty and what she calls a “broken system of government assistance.” Land grew up in Washington state and Alaska, raised by parents whose families “had lived in poverty for generations.” When she took her infant daughter and left what …

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Former Knopf executive Reagan Arthur returns to her previous publisher, Hachette Book Group

The week’s bestselling books, June 16

Black former players to play in Negro Leagues All-Star Game tribute on Memorial Day weekend

2 top Penguin Random House editors leaving amid ongoing changes at publishing house

Revival of Negro Leagues’ All-Star Game to include five former Dodgers players

'The Other Black Girl' on Hulu: How Zakiya Dalila Harris' life inspired it

The light/dark touch of Milan Kundera, MT at 90, celebrating the ‘Furies’ and more - The Hindu

Vogue divides opinion with controversial job posting for Anna Wintour’s assistant: ‘Devil Wears Prada’

Robert Gottlieb, celebrated literary editor of Toni Morrison and Robert Caro, dies at 92

Robert Gottlieb, celebrated literary editor of Toni Morrison and Robert Caro, dies at 92

Bestsellers List Sunday, April 30

Review: A harrowing shipwreck and mutiny in ‘The Wager’

15 fiction books that follow their own rules — and make great gifts

5 new books to read this week

Books of the month: From Ian McEwan’s Lessons to Terry Pratchett: A Life in Footnotes

Stephen King testifies for government in books merger trial

Stephen King, author of Carrie, The Shining, to testify against publisher over company merger

She went to Colombia to exhume her grandfather — and returned with a blazing memoir

'Rogues' showcases Patrick Radden Keefe's preternatural gift for reading people

Trump reacted 'bitterly' when longtime loyalist Hope Hicks didn't believe his voter fraud claims: book

Anna Wintour didn’t remember former assistant who wrote The Devil Wears Prada, book claims

Review: ‘In on the Joke’ showcases trailblazing women comics

Review: Margaret Atwood’s writings both funny, frightening

10 books to help you understand inequality — and possible solutions