This
year on American Express Small Business Saturday, the Obama family visited
Washington's recently-opened Upshur
Street Books. They purchased Purity, by Jonathan Franzen; Two
Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, by Salman Rushdie; Elske, On
Fortune's Wheel, and Jackaroo, by Cynthia Voigt; A Snicker of Magic, by Natalie
Lloyd; Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli; Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck, by Jeff
Kinney; and Dork Diaries 1, by Rachel Renee Russell.
In other news, the NYT
Book Review named its 100
notable books of 2015.
In the UK, where book prizes get named for their sponsors, the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction
has landed a five-year sponsorship deal with an investment firm and will rename
itself the Baillie
Gifford Prize.
In Italy, as Mondadori awaits government sign-off on their purchase of
Rizzoli's publishing assets, head of RCS Media's Bompiani Elisabetta Sgarbi
has left the company and will start
a new house, The Ship
of Theseus, set to launch in May 2016. Leaving Bompiani to join
her at the new company are Mario Andreose, Eugenio Lio, and Anna Maria Lorusso
-- and authors including Umberto Eco and Sandro Veronesi have already said they
will move with Sgarbi (and seem
to be investors in the company as well). The new house will be distributed by
Feltrinelli, which will provide other support services as well.
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