Former Cablevision Exec Joining B&N as CFO

As Barnes & Noble weighs what to do with its Nook business, the company has hired a former Cablevision executive to be its new chief financial officer. Michael Huseby, most recently executive v-p and CFO of Cablevision, will join B&N March 13.

Authors on the Air March 12, 2012: Grover Norquist, Erin Murray, Katrina Munichiello, Gregory Mone, Patricia Briggs

Grover Norquist hosted CNN's Daypoint with Soledad O'Brien and will be on The Daily Show tonight for his book Debacle: Obama's War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain Our Future (Wiley, 978-1118186176).

PGW Midwest Sales Rep Asks Industry for Book Donations

PGW Midwest sales rep Jen Reynolds, who is assisting with recovery efforts in her eastern Kentucky hometown, which was hard hit by an EF-3 tornado on March 2, is asking for book donations to benefit local children.

Job Moves: March 12, 2012

Gilberto De La Paz has joined Rockpoint Logistics as national sales manager. He has worked with companies such as Saia, Watkins, and FedEx.

Obituary: Dee Peeler

Dee Peeler, bookseller and senior buyer for Baltimore independent bookstore Greetings & Readings of Hunt Valley, died peacefully on February 21.

Job Moves: March 9, 2012

Regina Hayes, president and publisher of Viking Young Readers, will transition to editor-at-large this summer as she approaches her 30th year at the imprint.

Authors on the Air March 9, 2012: Joan Lunden

Joan Lunden will be on Good Morning America on the morning of Monday, March 12 to talk about her latest book Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Caregivers - 101 Stories of Love, Sacrifice, and Bonding (Chicken Soup for the Soul, 978-1935096832).

Due to the nature of live programming, scheduling is subject to change.

Authors on the Air March 8, 2012: Anthony Shadid, Russ Feingold, Charles Duhigg

Nada Bakri, wife of House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0547134666) author Anthony Shadid, who died in Syria last month, will be on The Leonard Lopate Show.

Russ Feingold will be on The Brian Lehrer Show to talk about While America Sleeps: A Wake-up Call for the Post 9/11 Era (Crown, 978-0307952523).

Authors on the Air March 7, 2012: Kristi Yamaguchi, David Wolman

Kristi Yamaguchi will be Fox & Friends for her new book It's a Big World, Little Pig! (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 978-1402266447).

Job Moves: March 7, 2012

PEN American Center has announced Peter Godwin as president. He succeeds Kwame Anthony Appiah, who was president for the last three years.

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Authors on the Air March 6, 2012: Russ Feingold, Stephanie Izard, Kate Shaffer

Russ Feingold, author of While America Sleeps: A Wake-up Call for the Post-9/11 Era (Crown, 978-0307952523), will be on Tavis Smiley.

Stephanie Izard, author of Girl in the Kitchen: How a Top Chef Cooks, Thinks, Shops, Eats, and Drinks (Chronicle, 9780811874472) will be on The Martha Stewart Show.

Job Moves: March 6, 2012

Chris Granville has recently joined The Basic Books Group as managing editor. Granville was at W.W. Norton & Company for the past ten years, most recently as senior production manager.

Job Moves: March 5, 2013

Alison Law is the new AJC Decatur Book Festival assistant program director, effective immediately. She is an Atlanta-based writer and marketing consultant.

Twisne Fan will join Macmillan on March 18 as v-p, trade manufacturing and production. She was most recently the senior production director at Simon & Schuster.

At becker&mayer!, Stephanie Swane has been promoted to director of sales and licensing and Barney Duly has joined as international sales manager.

At HMH, Ken Carpenter, currently v-p editorial director, Mariner and also director of Tolkien Projects, now adds editorial director, CliffsNotes to his title, with Cliffs executive editor Greg Tubach reporting to him. Also at HMH, Deanne Urmy has been promoted to senior executive editor. Rux Martin has assumed the title of editorial director, Rux Martin Books.

Obituary: William Wright

William Wright, former president and CEO of the Hearst Book Group, died February 26 at the age of 62.

New Executive Team at D&M Publishers

D&M Publishers has made a number of corporate changes in response to what the Canadian independent says are rapid changes in the domestic and international book markets.

Authors on the Air March 5, 2012: Richard J. Davidson, Sharon Begley, Taylor Polites, Howard Frank Mosher, Nancy Bilyeau

Richard J. Davidson and Sharon Begley will be on The Brian Lehrer Show for The Emotional Life of Your Brain (Hudson Street Press, 978-1594630897).

Job Moves: March 5, 2012

Alexander Star will join Farrar, Straus and Giroux as senior editor on April 2. Star comes from the New York Times, where he is currently senior editor of the New York Times Book Review. From 2004 to 2010, Star worked at the New York Times Magazine as its senior and then deputy editor. Prior to that, he was the founding editor of the Boston Globe Ideas section.

Authors on the Air March 2, 2012: Neil deGrasse Tyson, John Horgan, Mark Bittman

Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier (W.W. Norton, 978-0393082104), will be on NPR's Science Friday.

John Horgan will be on The Brian Lehrer Show for The End of War (McSweeney's, 978-1936365364).

Mark Bittman will be on The Leonard Lopate Show for How to Cook Everything--The Basics: All You Need to Make Great Food (Wiley, 978-0470528068).

John Sargent Sr. Memorial Service Set

The memorial service for John Sargent Sr., president and later chairman of Doubleday, will be held at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, 325 Park Avenue (at 51st) on Friday, March 23rd at 4 pm.