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Two 'L.A. Times' Columns Move to 'Los Angeles Review of Books'
Two Los Angeles Times columnists, Richard Rayner and Susan Salter Reynolds, are moving their columns to the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Dickerman Named Executive Editor at Penguin Press
Colin Dickerman has been named editor-in-chief of The Penguin Press, effective September 6.
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DiPreta Leaves It Books for Random House
After the recent news that Carrie Kania was leaving her pop culture imprint at HarperCollins, It Books, to become an agent, Mauro DiPreta has made it public that he is also leaving the imprint.
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Authors on the Air August 1, 2011: Wayne Koestenbaum, Bill Turnbull, Laurie Puhn, Mike Lee
Wayne Koestenbaum will be on Talk of the Nation to discuss Humiliation (Picador, 978-0312429225).
Bill Turnbull, author of Confessions of a Bad Beekeeper: What No To Do When Keeping Bees (with Apologies to my Own) (The Experiment, 978-1615190324), will be on The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC.
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Job Moves: August 1, 2011
Caitlin McCaskey has been promoted from assistant manager to manager at HarperCollins Speakers Bureau, and Wade Lucas has been promoted from assistant to associate.
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Authors on the Air July 29, 2011: Rob Dunn
Rob Dunn, author of The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today (Harper, 978-0061806483) will be on NPR Science Friday.
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Comings and Goings: July 29, 2011
Sumiya Nowshin, former associate national account manager at Random House Children's Books can be reached at sumiya213@gmail.com.
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Morgan Takes Over It Books
Cal Morgan will take over HarperCollins's It Books imprint as senior v-p and publisher. The position is being vacated by Carrie Kania who announced earlier this week that she is leaving HC to become an agent.
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Lennertz to Head World Book Night U.S.
Current HarperCollins v-p, retail marketing Carl Lennertz has been named chief executive of the newly formed U.S. arm of World Book Night. Launched last year in the U.K., WBN organizers hope to give away 1 million books when the second annual event takes place April 23. Lennertz joins WBN Sept. 1.
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RH Creates Direct-to-Consumer Marketing Role
Random House has created a new position dedicated to direct-to-consumer marketing, naming Melissa Possick director of marketing partnerships.
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Authors on the Air July 28, 2011: Peter Tomsen, Ben Mezrich
Peter Tomsen, author of The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers (PublicAffairs, 978-1586487638) will be on The Daily Show.
The Leonard Lopate Show will have the author of Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History (Doubleday, 978-0385533928), Ben Mezrich.
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Job Moves: July 28, 2011
Katie O’Callaghan has joined the Harper marketing team as associate director, marketing. O'Callaghan will work on both fiction and nonfiction campaigns across all of the Harper imprints including Harper, Harper Business, and Broadside Books. She was most recently the senior marketing manager at Ballantine Bantam Dell.
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Authors on the Air July 27, 2011: Larry King, Suketu Mehta
Larry King will be on Piers Morgan to talk about his new book Truth Be Told: Off the Record about Favorite Guests, Memorable Moments, Funniest Jokes, and a Half Century of Asking Questions (Weinstein Books, 978-1602861305).
Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Vintage, 978-0375703409) will be on The Brian Lehrer Show.
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Job Moves: July 27, 2011
OverDrive has announced that Brian Gurewitz, formerly president of library sales for Books on Tape, a division of Random House, Inc., has joined its team as director of content sales.
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Obituary: Michael Morris, Children's Publisher, Dies at 69
Michael Morris, the children’s book packager and founder of Victoria House Publishing and Joshua Morris Publishing, died Saturday, July 16, from complications due to cancer. He was 69.
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Comings and Goings: July 26, 2011
If you've been laid off recently, left your job or landed a new position and would like to pass along your contact information to others in the business, send details to pwletters@publishersweekly.com. Please include your full name and former title/company.
Jill Yngve Nadeau, former national account manager at Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing, can now be reached at jyngve@charter.net.
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Deborah Eisenberg Joins Columbia MFA Faculty
Deborah Eisenberg, MacArthur fellow and winner of the 2011 PEN/Faulkner for fiction for The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg, has joined the faculty of the writing program at Columbia University.
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Authors on the Air July 26, 2011: Juan Williams, Brooke Gladstone, Harriett Mogul, Pat Cooper
Juan Williams, author of Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate, (Crown, 978-0307952011) will be on The Daily Show.
The Colbert Report will have Brooke Gladstone for her new book The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media (W.W. Norton & Company, 978-0393077797).
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Job Moves: July 25, 2011
Anne Boynton-Trigg has joined Scholastic as v-p, export, and will be responsible for continuing to expand sales penetration in both mature and emerging export regions as well as overseeing marketing initiatives.
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