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We won’t be too snarky about CNN’s chicklit story — after all, it does explore what we think is the coming of age of the genre. You know, where publishers realize there’s more to female lives than shopping and gossiping with a gender-balanced (three straight female, one gay male) group of friends. Not that we […]

In an effort to save your bleary eyes, we will refrain from posting the husband’s thoughts on the music industry. Suffice to say, he has sufficient experience in various capacities to assure his views are well founded. Loud, but well founded. We will, however, summarize because his thesis is germane to our posting: the music […]

Some would think a piece from today’s Page Six column would have us on a censorship rant. Except it’s hard to suggest an author is being censored when they are cooperating fully. So, okay, strike censorship (unless someone is in the mood to argue the part where the reader is not being allowed to make […]

The Christian Science Monitor’s profile of The Paris Review’s new editor Brigid Hughes wasn’t particularly revelatory (possibly because we’re the type who wonder how anyone under the age of 30 has enough drive to be successful. Haven’t they been reading the press? 40 is the new 30 — it’s okay to slack off for another […]

Our bookclub has always non-gender exclusive. Actually, considering who attends our meetings, we’re not even species-exclusive. Yes, the husband tries to paint our club as female only, but how is it that he’s always encountering men at our meetings? Right, because he’s fishing for excuses not to read Edith Wharton. He has, of course, promised […]

All indications are that August in publishing is like August in Italy. Apparently, we need to rethink our choice to forego a trip to Tuscany this month because publishing industry news continues to fly. Yesterday, we posted a rumor about a single editorial change, now we have an entire press release related to changes at […]

We’d like to congratulate Sarah Weinman on her new position as mystery critic for the Baltimore Sun (that is to say, Sarah’s identity will be known, but she’ll be reviewing mystery novels). We think the Sun made an excellent choice, and we’re thrilled they’re dedicating resources to genre fiction. We frequently link to items on […]

The Time Warner Group has launched a new imprint called “Center Street.” According to Publisher’s Weekly, Time Warner says the name is meant to “reflect the line’s heartland values and sensibilities.” This explains the focus on self-help, motivation, health, fitness, and regional interest. Something tells us that latter item might need more clarification before our […]

And more from Publisher’s Lunch: lots of moves at Abrams. So many that we’ll quote directly from PL: Multiple announcements from divisions at Abrams. At Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Ron Longe has joined the unit as director of publicity. He was at Routledge most recently. Debbie Yost has been named senior editor for lifestyle books, […]

Publisher’s Lunch tells us that Jake Morrissey has joined Riverhead Books as an executive editor. Naturally, we thought this meant he’d be reviewing the memos written by titled staff and making them more readable, but, as it turns out, executive editors only edit executives from other companies. All very confusing, but we won’t spend too […]