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Obituary: David Rakoff
Essayist, author, and actor David Rakoff has died at 47 after a long illness. He was a regular contributor to This American Life and the New York Times bestselling author of three books, Half Empty, Don't Get Too Comfortable, and Fraud.
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Authors on the Air August 10, 2012: Lisa Randall
Lisa Randall will be on NPR's "Science Friday" for Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World (Ecco, 978-0061723728).
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Authors on the Air August 9, 2012: Joanna Brooks
Joanna Brooks will be on The Daily Show for The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith (Queen Bee Press, 978-0615593449).
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Job Moves: August 9, 2012
Joy Press has been named books and culture editor at the L.A. Times. She was previously Calendar's pop culture and deputy television editor.
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Authors on the Air August 8, 2012: Liza Mundy, Tim Noakes
Liza Mundy, author of The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family (Simon & Schuster, 978-1439197714).
Tim Noakes, author of Waterlogged: The Serious Problem of Overhydration in Endurance Sports (Human Kinetics, 978-1450424974), will be appearing on Sirius XM’s “Doctor Radio” on August 9, during their weekly Sports Medicine Show. The show airs at 6am ET and rebroadcasts at 4pm ET.
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Job Moves: August 8, 2012
Ryan Doherty has joined Spiegel & Grau as a senior editor.
Cyrus Kheradi, senior v-p, director, international sales and marketing at Random House will take on the additional duties of director for East Asia business development.
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Authors on the Air August 7, 2012: Karen Thompson Walker, Saima Wahab
Karen Thompson Walker will be on The Leonard Lopate Show for The Age of Miracles (Random House, 978-0812992977).
Saima Wahab will be on The Daily Show for In My Father's Country: An Afghan Woman Defies Her Fate (Crown, 978-0307884947).
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Job Moves: August 7, 2012
Rebecca Hunt has been named editor at Harlequin nonfiction. She was previously the associate editor at Penguin Books.
Sonya Cheuse has joined Grand Central as associate director of publicity. She was previously with Viking/Penguin.
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Authors on the Air August 6, 2012: Nora Vincent, Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele
Nora Vincent will be on The Leonard Lopate Show for her novel Thy Neighbor (Viking Adult, 978-0670023745).
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele were on NPR's Morning Edition for The Betrayal of the American Dream (PublicAffairs, 978-1586489694). Listen here.
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Job Moves: August 6, 2012
Marie Kent has joined Free Press as imprint marketing manager. She was previously in Penguin's school and library marketing department.
Naomi Kirsten has been promoted to editor in the children's group at Chronicle Books. She was previously the associate editor.
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Job Moves: August 3, 2012
Tracy Menzies has been promoted to v-p, production and creative operations at HarperCollins, replacing John Vitale, who has left the company.
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Authors on the Air August 3, 2012: Michael Singer
Oprah will interview Michael Singer, author of The Untethered Soul (New Harbinger Publications, 978-1572245372), on August 5 at 11am ET on OWN.
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Job Moves: August 2, 2012
Dan Mallory will join William Morrow as v-p, executive editor. He was previously publisher of Sphere in the U.K. In addition to acquiring and editing books for William Morrow, Dan will also be spearheading a digital first line, focusing on crime and thrillers.
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Authors on the Air August 2, 2012: Joshua Henkin, Cheryl Strayed, Christopher Hayes
On The Leonard Lopate Show, Joshua Henkin will talk about PW Pick The World Without You (Pantheon, 978-0375424366), and Cheryl Strayed will talk about Tiny Beautiful Things (Vintage, 978-0307949332).
Christopher Hayes, author of Twilight of the Elites (Crown, 978-0307720450), will be on The Colbert Report.
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Job Moves: August 1, 2012
Mary Anne Thompson Associates has been appointed the U.S. literary scout for Gimm Young in Korea.
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Authors on the Air August 1, 2012: Charles Yu, Fred Guterl
Charles Yu will be on The Leonard Lopate Show for his short story collection Sorry Please Thank You (Pantheon, 978-0307907172).
Fred Guterl will be on The Daily Show for The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It (Bloomsbury, 978-1608192588).
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Authors on the Air July 31, 2012: Dambisa Moyo, Joseph Stiglitz
Dambisa Moyo, author of Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World (Basic Books, 978-0465028283), will be on The Daily Show.
Joseph Stiglitz, author of The Price of Inequality (W.W. Norton, 978-0393088694), will be on Tavis Talks.
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Books-A-Million Hires Development Analyst
Following the decision by the Anderson family to drop its plans to buy back all of the shares in Books-A-Million that it does not own, the bookstore chain has hired Michel Rediker as corporate development analyst.
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Job Moves: July 31, 2012
Edmund Salt has been appointed president of Whitehots, the Canadian library services provider. He was previously v-p, sales and marketing.
Hannah Buchsbaum has joined Little Simon as associate editor. She was most recently at Disney Press.
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