Well, I don’t think we could have asked for much more. Random House, Inc. had 4 winners in last night’s National Book Critics Circle Award announcements! We would like to congratulate the winners for… FICTION Jennifer Egan : A Visit from the Goon Squad …Of course the one that I skip for book club would win […]
We were thrilled today to see the Random House, Inc. managed to nab 4 of the 10 titles in the inaugural Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2010! Congratulations to our authors and editors! And also congratulations to our sales and services partner, Other Press, and one of MY personal favorite books of the year, […]
THE CITY & THE CITY by China Miéville has won the 2010 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel!! The World Fantasy Awards are annual, international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy. Since 1975, when they were first awarded, they have been handed out at the World Fantasy […]
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The Fodor’s team received some wonderful news this morning. Fodor’s Compass American Guides Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks (9781400019359, $19.95) won the Lowell Thomas silver medal for best travel guidebook published in 2009-2010! Fodor’s was among 1,161 entries in the 2010 SATW Lowell Thomas Journalism Competition. Winners were announced this morning in Leipzig, Germany, […]
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Twenty-three new MacArthur Fellowships were announced this week, and they included one Random House author and one man who is the subject of a forthcoming Random House book. Honored were fiction writer Yiyun Li, whose understated and elegant stories made her one of Dave’s staff picks when her book A Thousand Years of Good Prayers came […]
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We’d like to congratulate our Publishing Services clients on their Foreword wins this year. Winning Independent Publisher of the Year was Other Press, and who can question that, with the outstanding list-after-list quality of their program. Also, winning the overall Editors Choice for Nonfiction was La Cucina, published by Rizzoli, who dominated other categories as […]
[youtube afpbmyK6NKY] I felt very refined this last Thursday, as I sat in a suit and tie nursing a $16 glass of wine at one of Manhattan’s snazziest lounges. This is a very far cry from my normal Thursday evening of “Supernatural,” Ovaltine, gym shorts, and peanut butter and jelly. But once a year, I […]
The finalists for the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award have been announced and two Random House, Inc. books are among them. Lorrie Moore’s A Gate at the Stairs and Colson Whitehead’s Sag Harbor join literary heavyweight Barbara Kingsolver (The Lacuna) and two others who are nominated for the award, which was founded by writers in 1980 […]
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