Saturday, September 02, 2017

Publishers Lunch


Today's Meal


Gabriel Tallent's My Absolute Darling is Amazon's spotlight pick for September (though it actually published Tuesday of this week), and Ali Land's Good Me Bad Me* is their featured debut. The rest of their top picks for the month, which include 4 titles you can sample now in our free Buzz Books*, are:

Sourdough*, by Robin Sloan
Little Fires Everywhere*, by Celeste Ng
The Golden House, by Salman Rushdie
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process, by John McPhee
Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward
Ranger Games, by Ben Blum
The Burning Girl, by Claire Messud
A Legacy of Spies, by John le Carré
Coming to My Senses, by Alice Waters
The Twelve-Mile Straight*, by Eleanor Henderson

Barnes & Noble's top fiction list for the month also recommends the books by Ng, Rushdie, and Ward, along with:

A Column of Fire, by Ken Follett
The Girl Who Takes An Eye For An Eye, by David Lagercrantz
Sleeping Beauties, by Stephen King and Owen King
To Be Where You Are, by Jan Karon
Love and Other Consolation Prizes, by Jamie Ford
The Ninth Hour, by Alice McDermott
The Vengeance of Mothers, by Jim Fergus
The Best Kind of People, by Zoe Whittall
Dinner at the Center of the Earth, by Nathan Englander

Plus, use this link for our full list of notable titles releasing in September.



At Workman, Rebecca Carlisle has been promoted to director of publicity for the Workman imprint, with Moira Kerrigan moving up to director of marketing there. Danny Cooper, Evan Griffith, and Rachael Mt. Pleasant each move up to associate editor. Amy Kattan joins as marketing manager for Artisan Books. Previously she was digital marketing manager for Simon & Schuster.

Forthcoming
Another excerpt from Hillary Clinton's forthcoming What Happened was posted by Bustle. This excerpt focuses on the creation of Clinton's political action organization Onward Together and recommends ways to get involved.

Bookselling
Nashville's Parnassus Books, owned by Ann Patchett and Karen Hayes, opened a location in the Nashville airport. The 915-square-foot store offers "the latest fiction and nonfiction releases, a wide range of bestsellers and favorites, plus local and regional titles and staff recommendations."

Storm Relief
Chronicle Books held an "old-fashioned bake sale" to benefit the victims of Hurricane Harvey. They'll match the $2,600 raised for a $5,200 donation split between the Red Cross and the Hurricane Harvey relief fund.

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