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Authors on the Air May 31, 2012: Jack Hitt
Jack Hitt, author of Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American Character (Crown, 978-0307393753), will be on The Colbert Report.
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Isenberg To Step Down as PEN Executive Director
Steven Isenberg, executive director of PEN American Center since 2009, will end his tenure at the close of 2012.
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Authors on the Air May 30, 2012: Dan Rather, Joe Blair
Dan Rather, author of Rather Outspoken (Grand Central, 978-1455502417), will be on The Daily Show.
Joe Blair, author of By the Iowa Sea (Scribner, 978-1451636055), will be on The Leonard Lopate Show.
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Job Moves: May 30, 2012
Kara Watson has been promoted to senior marketing manager at Scribner. She was previously Scribner's imprint marketing manager.
Stephanie Anderson has been appointed head of readers' advisory at the Darien Public Library in Darien, Conn. Anderson has been the manager of WORD in Greenpoint, Brooklyn for three years.
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Sugerman Succeeds Hampton at Disney Publishing
Disney Consumer Products has promoted Andrew Sugerman to executive v-p, Disney Publishing Worldwide, taking over as head of the division from Russell Hampton who stepped down in May.
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How a 15-Year-Old Built a Library
Inside Chapman Partnership, a Miami-Dade nonprofit dedicated to supporting and rebuilding the lives of the city’s homeless, there is a library of 5,000 books. The library is the result of nearly three years of work by Lilli Leight, now 15 years old; her efforts were honored this month when she was named one of the winners of the Innovations in Reading Prize by the National Book Foundation.
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Prichard Leaving Ingram
Skip Prichard, who oversaw the integration of several different Ingram divisions into what is now known as the Ingram Content Group, will step down as president and CEO June 8. Ingram Content chairman John Ingram will assume Prichard’s duties as CEO.
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Authors on the Air May 25, 2012: John S. Allen, Krys Lee
John S. Allen, author of The Omnivorous Mind (Harvard University Press, 978-0674055728), will be on NPR's Science Friday.
Krys Lee, author of the short story collection Drifting House (Viking Adult, 978-0670023257), will be on The Leonard Lopate Show.
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Job Moves: May 25, 2012
Karen Corvello has been appointed Baker & Taylor's northeast regional account manager covering independent retail and higher education accounts in New England and portions of New York State.
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Authors on the Air May 24, 2012: Mohammed Hanif
Mohammed Hanif, author of Our Lady of Alice Bhatti (Knopf, 978-0307958310), was on NPR's Morning Edition. Listen here.
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Job Moves: May 24, 2012
Cindy Loh has been appointed publishing director of Bloomsbury Children's Publishing in New York. She was previously editorial director at Sterling Children's Books.
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Phillips Appointed Chief Executive of Cambridge University Press
Peter Phillips has been appointed as the new chief executive for Cambridge University Press. He will take up his new post immediately, following the recent change of role for the CUP's previous chief executive, Stephen Bourne.
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Authors on the Air May 23, 2012: Alan Rosen, E.J. Dionne
Alan Rosen will be on The Chew for his book Junior's Dessert Cookbook: 75 Recipes for Cheesecakes, Pies, Cookies, Cakes, and More (Taunton Press, 978-1600853920).
E.J. Dionne, author of Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent (Bloomsbury, 978-1608192014), will be on The Rachel Maddow Show, and on the May 24 edition of Morning Joe.
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Job Moves: May 23, 2012
Jessica Zimmerman is joining the Simon & Schuster publicity department as a senior publicist. She was most recently a publicist for Center Street, the mainstream imprint of Hachette Nashville.
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Authors on the Air May 22, 2012: Billy Bob Thornton, Thomas J. Foley
Billy Bob Thornton, author of The Billy Bob Tapes (William Morrow, 978-0062101778), will be on Tavis Talks.
Thomas J. Foley, author of Most Wanted: Pursuing Whitey Bulger, The Murderous Mob Chief the FBI Secretly Protected (Touchstone, 978-1451663914) will be on "The Lowdown with Ira Wood" on Tuesday May 22 at 12:30 - 1:00 PM, on WOMR-FM, Cape Cod, streaming live at www.womr.org.
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Job Moves: May 22, 2012
Jody LeHeup has been named associate editor at Valiant. He was formerly an editor at Marvel.
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Authors on the Air May 21, 2012: Bill Bradley, Nancy Pearl
Bill Bradley, author of We Can All Do Better (Vanguard Press, 978-1593157296), will be on Tavis Talks.
Nancy Pearl was on NPR's Morning Edition to reveal her summer reads. Listen here.
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Job Moves: May 21, 2012
Ken Rhodes has been appointed general manager of NBN International.
Karen Matsu Greenberg has left Blue Apple Books to focus full-time on her packaging and book-based gift business, Hourglass Press.
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Authors on the Air May 18, 2012: Jennifer Cockrall-King, Maryann McFadden, Peter Levenda
Jennifer Cockrall-King will be on NPR's "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow on May 18 for Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution (Prometheus Books, 978-1-61614-458-6).
Maryann McFadden, author of The Book Lover (Three Women Press, 978-0984867103) will be on "Reading With Robin" on Saturday May 19 at 7-8 am, streaming live at www.920whjj.com.
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Job Moves: May 18, 2012
Kelly Barrales-Saylor has joined Albert Whitman & Company as editorial director. Barrales-Saylor comes from Sourcebooks.
At Sourcebooks, Aubrey Poole has been promoted to the position of associate editor. She will be responsible for acquiring authors and titles for the Jabberwocky and Fire imprints. Poole was previously assistant editor at Sourcebooks, and works out of the NYC location.
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