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Authors on the Air June 7, 2012: Buddy Guy, Edward Conrad
Buddy Guy, author of When I Left Home (Da Capo Press, 978-0306819575), will be on Tavis Talks.
Edward Conard will be on The Daily Show for Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy is Wrong (Portfolio, 978-1591845508).
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Ray Bradbury Dies at 91
Legendary American writer Ray Bradbury passed away June 5 at the age of 91.
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Authors on the Air June 6, 2012: Buzz Bissinger
Buzz Bissinger will be on Tavis Talks for his new memoir Father's Day (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0547816562).
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Authors on the Air June 5, 2012: Gillian Flynn, Jill Biden
Gillian Flynn, author of PW Pick Gone Girl (Crown, 978-0307588364), appeared on NPR's "Morning Edtion." Listen/read here.
Jill Biden, author of Don't Forget, God Bless Our Troops (Simon & Schuster, 978-1442457355), will be on The Colbert Report.
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Gretchen Young Named VP, Executive Editor at Grand Central
Gretchen Young has been named v-p, executive editor at Grand Central Publishing. Young’s appointment will be effective June 25, 2012 and she will report directly to Deb Futter.
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Reichart Appointed to Digital Spot at Bertelsmann
Marcel Reichart has been appointed to the newly created position of executive v-p digital development and partnerships at Bertelsmann’s Corporate Center effective October 1, 2012.
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'Eat & Run' Author Launches Book With Manhattan Marathon
Vegan ultrarunning champion Scott Jurek, star of Christopher McDougall’s bestselling Born to Run, will celebrate the release of his own memoir, Eat & Run, by running all 31 miles (50K) around Manhattan the morning of the book’s publication date: June 5.
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Authors on the Air June 4, 2012: Jill Biden, Jim Baumer
Jill Biden will be on the Today show on June 5 for Don't Forget, God Bless Our Troops (Simon & Schuster, 978-1442457355).
Jim Baumer, author of Moxie: Maine in a Bottle (Down East, 978-1608930432), will be a guest on WMME/92 Moose's Morning Show.
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Job Moves: June 4, 2012
Kirsten Hall has been promoted to managing agent at Bright Group International.
Danielle Lynn has joined Rodale Books as publicity manager. She was most recently a senior publicist at Simon & Schuster.
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Authors on the Air June 1, 2012: Doron Weber, Stuart Firestein, Eric Topol, Anna Quindlen, Andrew Goldstein
Doron Weber, author of Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir (Simon & Schuster, 978-1451618068), will be on NPR's "Science Friday."
Also on "Science Friday," Stuart Firestein for Ignorance: How It Drives Science (Oxford University Press, 978-0199828074), and Eric Topol for The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care (Basic Books, 978-0465025503).
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Job Moves: June 1, 2012
Caroline Casey has been appointed marketing and sales director at Coffee House Press. She was previously director of marketing and development at Sarabande Books.
At Howard Books, Beth Adams has been appointed senior editor and Brandi Lewis has been appointed imprint marketing manager.
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Authors on the Air May 31, 2012: Jack Hitt
Jack Hitt, author of Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American Character (Crown, 978-0307393753), will be on The Colbert Report.
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Isenberg To Step Down as PEN Executive Director
Steven Isenberg, executive director of PEN American Center since 2009, will end his tenure at the close of 2012.
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Authors on the Air May 30, 2012: Dan Rather, Joe Blair
Dan Rather, author of Rather Outspoken (Grand Central, 978-1455502417), will be on The Daily Show.
Joe Blair, author of By the Iowa Sea (Scribner, 978-1451636055), will be on The Leonard Lopate Show.
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Job Moves: May 30, 2012
Kara Watson has been promoted to senior marketing manager at Scribner. She was previously Scribner's imprint marketing manager.
Stephanie Anderson has been appointed head of readers' advisory at the Darien Public Library in Darien, Conn. Anderson has been the manager of WORD in Greenpoint, Brooklyn for three years.
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Sugerman Succeeds Hampton at Disney Publishing
Disney Consumer Products has promoted Andrew Sugerman to executive v-p, Disney Publishing Worldwide, taking over as head of the division from Russell Hampton who stepped down in May.
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How a 15-Year-Old Built a Library
Inside Chapman Partnership, a Miami-Dade nonprofit dedicated to supporting and rebuilding the lives of the city’s homeless, there is a library of 5,000 books. The library is the result of nearly three years of work by Lilli Leight, now 15 years old; her efforts were honored this month when she was named one of the winners of the Innovations in Reading Prize by the National Book Foundation.
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Prichard Leaving Ingram
Skip Prichard, who oversaw the integration of several different Ingram divisions into what is now known as the Ingram Content Group, will step down as president and CEO June 8. Ingram Content chairman John Ingram will assume Prichard’s duties as CEO.
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Authors on the Air May 25, 2012: John S. Allen, Krys Lee
John S. Allen, author of The Omnivorous Mind (Harvard University Press, 978-0674055728), will be on NPR's Science Friday.
Krys Lee, author of the short story collection Drifting House (Viking Adult, 978-0670023257), will be on The Leonard Lopate Show.
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