Publishers Lunch

Our next virtual Buzz Books Editors and Authors Panel is on Thursday, May 16, at 7:00 PM Eastern. Once again, we are honored to have the American Booksellers Association join us as co-presenter, ...

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Paul Auster, 77, died on April 30 of complications from lung cancer. He is the author of 34 books, including The New York Trilogy and 4321, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His most re...

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Further to our reporting last fall on how publishing teams are using generative AI tools for their day-to-day work, and Penguin Random House CEO Nihar Malaviya’s assertion that the company woul...

https://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2024/04/prh-develops-generative-ai-tool-for-employees/

Literary agent Richard Parks, 83, died of complications from dementia on April 23. Parks was the founder of The Richard Parks Agency and previously worked at Curtis Brown. The post Obituary: Ri...

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Harper will publish AT WAR WITH OURSELVES by H.R. McMaster on August 27. The book chronicles the former national security advisor’s 13 months in the Trump administration, laying out, according ...

https://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2024/04/forthcoming-h-r-mcmasters-white-house-memoir/

This week’s fiction releases include novels by Rachel Khong and Danielle Steel, while Erik Larson and Frank Bruni publish new nonfiction works. Also out this week is GRANITE HARBOR by Peter Ni...

https://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2024/04/new-books-publishing-april-30/

Lagardere ceo Arnaud Lagardere was questioned by a judge and charged with “vote buying, abuse of power and breach of trust, disseminating false or misleading information and failure to publish ...

https://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2024/04/arnaud-lagardere-steps-aside-as-ceo-facing-criminal-charges/

The owners of Tattered Cover filed another amended reorganization plan with the bankruptcy court on Friday, affirming that the new “plan requires debtor to sell all or substantially all of its ...

https://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2024/04/tattered-cover-hopes-for-new-owner-by-july/

CJ Sansom, 71, author of Dissolution, Winter in Madrid and Dominion, died on April 27 of multiple myeloma. The post Obituary: CJ Samson appeared first on Publishers Lunch .

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On Friday PEN America formally cancelled their 2024 World Voices Festival, scheduled to take place May 8-11 in New York and May 8-16 in Los Angeles. They write: “The decision to cancel was not ...

https://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2024/04/pen-america-cancels-may-world-voices-festival/