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Jensen to Receive Award at PubWest Conference
PubWest has awarded its 2011 Jack D. Rittenhouse Award to Jack Jensen, president of Chronicle Books.
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Authors on the Air August 31, 2011: Farah Griffin, Jonathan Safran Foer
Farah Griffin will talk about Ann Petry's 1946 novel The Street (Mariner Books, 978-0395901496) on The Leonard Lopate Show's "Underappreciated" segment.
Jonathan Safran Foer and his brother Franklin Foer, editor-at-large for The New Republic, will be on The Brian Lehrer Show in conversation about the decade after the September 11th attacks.
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Job Moves: August 31, 2011
Ava Kavyani has been promoted to senior publicist at Dutton. Kavyani has been at the company for two years.
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Comings and Goings: August 31, 2011
Lottchen Shivers, executive director of marketing and publicity at Abrams, has left the company. She can now be reached at lottchen.shivers@gmail.com.
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Poisoned Pen Press Names Tribble Publisher
Jessica Tribble has been promoted to publisher at Poisoned Pen Press, an independent publisher specializing in mystery books. Tribble joined the publisher after an internship in 2004 and previously served as associate publisher.
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Authors on the Air August 30, 2011: Tom Rob Smith
Tom Rob Smith, author of the thriller Child 44 (Grand Central Publishing, B0029LHX1W ), was on NPR's Morning Report.
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Job Moves: August 30, 2011
Leslie Brandon will join Henry Holt and Company as publicist on September 20. She was previously at The Overlook Press.
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Hottensen Leaving Weinstein to Return to Grove; Price Steps Down
Judy Hottensen is resigning as publisher of Weinstein Books to return to Grove/Atlantic September 6 as associate publisher where she will take over some of the duties of Eric Price, who is retiring from a fulltime role at Grove. Weinstein Books said it is close to finding a successor for Hottensen.
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Authors on the Air August 29, 2011: Anthony Bourdain, J.H. Lee
Anthony Bourdain will be on the Leonard Lopate Show for Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (Ecco, 978-0061718953).
Boo and his owner J.H. Lee appeared on Good Morning America for Boo: The Life of the World's Cutest Dog (Chronicle Books, 978-1452103068).
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Authors on the Air August 29, 2011: Anthony Bourdain, J.H. Lee
Anthony Bourdain will be on the Leonard Lopate Show for his book Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (Ecco, 978-0061718953).
Boo and his owner J.H. Lee will be on Good Morning America for the book Boo: The Life of the World's Cutest Dog (Chronicle Books, 978-1452103068).
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Comings and Goings: August 29, 2011
Jill Kramer, the former editorial director at Hay House, is now a literary agent with Waterside Productions (WatersideAgentJK@aol.com); and is also a freelance writer/editor (editorjk2@aol.com).
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Job Moves: August 29, 2011
Heidi Sachner joins Perseus Distribution’s client service team as director of client services. Sachner replaces Sarah Coglianese. Sachner was most recently associate publisher, sales and marketing at Newmarket Press for nine years, and prior to that was v-p, director of sales at Random House for six years.
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Comings and Goings: August 26, 2011
After 43 years with PW, international sales director Jim Levitt has announced his retirement. He can be reached at levitt.jim266@gmail.com.
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Authors on the Air August 26, 2011: Ronald Bishop, Mary Jo McConahay
Jo Nesbo will discuss his new crime novel The Snowman (Knopf, 978-0307595867) on The Leonard Lopate Show.
CSPAN BOOK-TV's After Words will be airing an interview with Ronald Bishop about his new book More: The Vanishing of Scale in an Over-the-Top Nation (Baylor University Press, 9781602582583).
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Job Moves: August 25, 2011
Haights Cross Communications, the educational and library publisher, has announced the appointment of Kevin R. Brueggeman as president and CEO of its Triumph Learning, LLC, business unit.
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Authors on the Air August 25, 2011: Peter Spiegelman, Bethany McClean
Peter Spiegelman will be on the Leonard Lopate Show for his novel Thick as Thieves (Knopf, 978-0307263179).
On the Brian Lehrer Show, Bethany McClean will talk about All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis (Portfolio Trade, 978-1591844389).
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Gillian Blake Named E-I-C at Holt
Gillian Blake has been named editor-in-chief at Henry Holt. Blake, who will be starting on September 1, has been at Holt since 2009.
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Job Moves: August 24, 2011
Simon & Schuster has promoted Tracey Guest from director of publicity to v-p. Guest joined Simon & Schuster in 1998 after beginning her career at Dutton/Plume.
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Authors on the Air August 24, 2011: Helen Schulman, Jonathan Lethem
Helen Schulman will be on the Leonard Lopate Show to talk about her new novel, This Beautiful Life (Harper, 978-0062024381).
Also on the Leonard Lopate Show, Jonathan Lethem will talk about the novel A Meaningful Life (NYRB Classics, 978-1590173008) by L.J. Davis.
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