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Authors on the Air April 26, 2012: Robert Draper, Ayad Akhtar
Robert Draper, author of Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives (Free Press, 978-1451642087), will be on The Daily Show.
Ayad Akhtar will be on Tavis Talks for American Dervish (Little, Brown, 978-0316183314).
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Comings and Goings: April 26, 2012
Emily Mitchell will leave her position as senior editor and director of corporate strategy at Charlesbridge. She will be taking a job in marketing at Vistaprint and can be reached at emilyjmitchell@post.harvard.edu.
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Job Moves: April 26, 2012
Books-A-Million has appointed R. Todd Noden as chief financial officer. He will report to Terrance G. Finely, CEO and president of BAM. Noden will replace current CFO Brian W. White, who resigned to pursue other endeavors. Most recently, Noden was CFO of Dobbs Mills.
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Rosset Memorial Service
A memorial service for Barney Rosset, who passed away on February 21, will be held on Wednesday, May 9, in New York at The Great Hall at Cooper Union (7th St. between 3rd and 4th Avenues.) The ceremony will begin at 5:30pm. RSVP at rsvp@evergreenreview.com
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Job Moves: April 25, 2012
Susan Canavan has been promoted to senior executive editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Ann Godoff has promoted Lindsay Whalen to editor at The Penguin Press.
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Authors on the Air April 24, 2012: Amy Einhorn and Ben Schrank, Madeleine Albright, Robert Draper
Amy Einhorn and Ben Schrank will be on The Leonard Lopate Show talking about the future of books, and how the publishing industry is responding to new technologies.
Madeleine Albright, author of Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 (Harper, 978-0062030313), will be on The Daily Show.
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Job Moves: April 24, 2012
Regnery has hired Alberto Rojas as director of publicity, effective May 1. He will oversee the Regnery History and Little Patriot Press imprints. Rojas was formerly senior director of publicity at HarperCollins.
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Authors on the Air April 23, 2012: Tracy K. Smith, Michael Tucker
Pulitzer winner Tracy K. Smith will be on The Brian Lehrer Show for her winning collection, Life on Mars (Graywolf Press, 978-1555975845).
Michael Tucker will be on The Leonard Lopate Show for his novel After Annie (Overlook, 978-1590207352).
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Job Moves: April 23, 2012
Colin Shields has been named v-p, director of digital sales for Simon & Schuster; he was most recently senior director of their digital sales group.
Also at S&S, Paula Amendolara has been promoted to v-p, director of retail sales; she most recently senior director of retail sales.
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Authors on the Air April 20, 2012: Herb Silverman, Frank Langella
Herb Silverman, author of Candidate Without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt (Pitchstone, 978-0984493289) will be a guest on PaleoRadio, WPRR AM1680/95.3FM in Grand Rapids, MI at 3:10 p.m. EST for the hour.
Frank Langella, author of Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Know Them (Harper, 978-0062094476), will be on Tavis Talks.
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Job Moves: April 20, 2012
Lisa Tomasello will join Macmillan's sales department as a national account manager for adult trade titles, calling on Costco, BJ's, and their distribution partners. She was previously with Simon & Schuster.
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Job Moves: April 19, 2012
Tina Andreadis has been promoted to v-p, senior executive director of publicity for Harper, Ecco, Amistad, Harper Perennial, Harper paperbacks, Harper Audio, It Books, and Harper Design. She has been with the company since 2005.
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Authors on the Air April 19, 2012: Judy Smith, Tavis Smiley and Cornel West
Judy Smith will be on The Daily Show for Good Self, Bad Self: Transforming Your Worst Qualities into Your Biggest Assets (Free Press, 978-1451649994).
Tavis Smiley and Cornel West, authors of The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto (SmileyBooks, 978-1401940638), will be on The Colbert Report.
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Authors on the Air April 18, 2012: Noam Scheiber, Robert B. Reich
Noam Scheiber will be on Tavis Talks for The Escape Artists: How Obama's Team Fumbled the Recovery (Simon & Schuster, 978-1439172407).
Robert B. Reich, author of the e-book Beyond Outrage (Knopf), will be on The Daily Show.
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Job Moves: April 18, 2012
David Hillman has been named executive v-p and general counsel of Simon & Schuster beginning April 23. Hillman was most recently the chief administrative officer, general counsel and executive v-p, business affairs for Dial Global.
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Authors on the Air April 17, 2012: Patricia Walker, Janet Davis, Mara Einstein, Ian Smith
Dance of the Electric Hummingbird (Rainbow Ridge 2011) author Patricia Walker will be on the "Mancow" nationally syndicated radio show Wednesday April 18th at 7:30am ET.
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Authors on the Air April 16, 2012: Tavis Smiley and Cornel West, Katie Pavlich
Phil Donahue will talk to Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West about their book The Rich & the Rest of Us (SmileyBooks, 978-1401940638) on Tavis Talks.
Katie Pavlich, author of Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-up (Regnery, 978-1-59698-321-2), will be on The O'Reilly Factor.
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Authors on the Air April 13, 2012: Piotr Naskrecki, Edward O. Wilson, Henry Petroski, Marcey Shapiro, Stephen W. Hines
NPR's Science Friday will have three authors on its program today: Piotr Naskrecki for his book Relics: Travels in Nature's Time Machine (University of Chicago Press, 978-0226568706), Edward O. Wilson for his book The Social Conquest of Earth (Liveright, 978-0871404138), and Henry Petroski for his book To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 978-0674065840).
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Alan Harvey To Direct Stanford University Press
Alan Harvey, SUP's deputy director and editor-in-chief, has been with the company since 2002, when he came from Cambridge University Press.
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