Wednesday, March 11, 2015

US trade news - Publishers Lunch


Awards
The finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award were announced Tuesday morning, with the winner to be named April 7 and honored at a ceremony on May 2. The finalists are:

Jeffery Renard Allen, Song of the Shank (Graywolf)
Jennifer Clement, Prayers for the Stolen (Hogarth)
Atticus Lish, Preparation for the Next Life (Tyrant)
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (Knopf)
Jenny Offill, Department of Speculation (Vintage)

The Women's Prize for Fiction announced its longlist of 20 titles, also including Mandel's Station Eleven as well as recently published titles by Anne Tyler, Ali Smith, Sandra Newman, and Rachel Cusk. The shortlist will be announced in mid-April with the winner to be named June 3.

Publication Announcement
Eric Carle will publish a new picture book, THE NONSENSE SHOW, coming from Philomel in October 2015. Carle says in the announcement the book "came to me over a long period of time and I had fun working on it. It is a playful word-and-picture game and an upside-down way of looking at life and the world. I like these topsy-turvy points of view. I appreciate the way Surrealist artists like Magritte showed us all in their paintings that you have to keep looking, keeping paying attention. And keep playing."

Obituary
Romance author Cathie Linz died on March 7 at her home in Naperville, IL. She published 56 books, most recently under the pseudonym Cat Devon. Her agency notes that "she was known and beloved in the romance community for her charming, warmhearted stories that lifted readers with laughter and love."

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