Random House has announced the launch of The Conversation (www.conversationonline.com) with Random House executive editor Jon Meacham, a new website that will encourage an exchange of ideas relating to current affairs through a discussion of a wide variety of nonfiction and fiction books. The site, which is live today, is fully integrated with Facebook and includes links to all major retailers.
The site will encourage a community discussion about the most relevant issues facing the nation and the world. Meacham and other contributors will regularly recommend titles that give context, historical background or other insights into the daily headlines. Frontlist and backlist titles from all publishers will be among the recommendations. To begin, Meacham is recommending five books on the attacks and the aftermath of September 11. They are The Eleventh Day, Ghost Wars, The Looming Tower, 102 Minutes, and Beyond Bin Laden. The first conversation is between Ballantine editor Mark Tavani and authors of The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama bin Laden, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan.
Meacham won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House and served as the editor of Newsweek.
