Just in time for Frankfurt, the Nobel Prize for Literature
will
announce its winner on Thursday, October 10, at 7 AM EDT.
The National
Book Awards will be hosted by "Morning Joe" co-hosts
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, Crain's
reported in advance of this morning's official announcement. The show will
also announce the award shortlists on October 16, repeating the same gambit as
last year. Perseus ceo and National Book Foundation chairman David Steinberger
said of Morning Joe duo, "If you want to reach the broader culture, they
are the perfect vehicle", but he is also their publisher (via Perseus
imprint Weinstein Books.)
Disney announced
a 2.5 million copy first printing for Rick
Riordan's THE HOUSE OF HADES, which will publish tomorrow.
HarperCollins UK's The Austen Project,
which solicits authors to write modern reworkings of Jane Austen's novels, has
signed up Alexander
McCall Smith for a modern-day version of EMMA, joining Curtis
Sittenfeld (PRIDE & PREJUDICE), Val McDermid (NORTHANGER ABBEY), and Joanna
Trollope, whose SENSE AND SENSIBILITY will be published next month. Harper UK
will announce authors for new versions of MANSFIELD PARK and PERSUASION later
this year
Digital startup publisher Atavist Books announced
their inaugural list, which will begin next March with MacArthur winner Karen
Russell's novella SLEEP DONATION (Atavist Books will only publish the digital
version.) Other titles set for release next spring include THE NEW WORLD by
Chris Adrian & Eli Horowitz; Kamila Shamsie's novel A GOD IN EVERY STONE;
Hari Kunzru's digital-only essay TWICE UPON A TIME; Chicago-based journalist
Gary Younge's A DAY IN THE DEATH OF AMERICA; Raj Patel's GENERATION FOOD, a
companion to the documentary of the same name by Steve James; and CHASING THE
SUN, interactive storytelling about the Arctic by The Goggles.
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