May 27, 2022

On Monday, May 30, we pay tribute to the Americans who have died in service to our country. To honor the occasion, we have curated the following titles, for adults and young readers, in commemoration of the service and sacrifice of our nation’s military:
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May 26, 2022

Katherine Min at MacDowell in 1995, photo by Joanna Eldredge Morrissey
Join the MacDowell community and the family and friends of
Knopf/ Anchor author
Katherine Min, for the 2nd annual
Katherine Min Fellowship celebration on
Wednesday, June 1 at 7:00 p.m. (ET). The Katherine Min Fellowship is an endowed fellowship awarded annually to elevate the voices of Asian American writers at MacDowell.
Penguin Random House is a longtime supporter of the MacDowell benefit.
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May 26, 2022

The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis Cullman Center Fellows 24th class include five authors published by
Penguin Random House imprints. The Fellowship, which runs from September 2022 through May 2023, is an international program open to academics, visual artists, scholars, and creative writers whose work will directly benefit from access to the collections in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. The selected Fellows will also participate in a continuous exchange of ideas within the Cullman Center and in public forums in the New York Public Library, in addition to working on their independent projects.
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May 26, 2022
Attention colleagues with young children: author/illustrator
Doug Salati presents his debut picture book,
HOT DOG (
Knopf Books for Young Readers), with a virtual Storytime Live event hosted by Greenlight Bookstore (Brooklyn, NY) on
Saturday, May 28 at 11:30 am (ET). To register, click
here.
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May 25, 2022

To raise awareness about the proliferating book banning and educational gag orders in American schools nationwide, and to raise money to support PEN America’s crucial work to counter this national crisis of censorship, Margaret Atwood and Penguin Random House have partnered to create The Unburnable Book, a fireproof edition of Atwood’s prescient—and often banned—novel
The Handmaid’s Tale, featuring the iconic Handmaid imagery by designer Noma Bar. In a
launch video announcing the project, Margaret Atwood herself can be seen “testing” a prototype with a flamethrower.
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May 25, 2022

The
Consumer Marketing Team, in partnership with the
Penguin Random House LGBTQ+ Network and our esteemed authors, has officially dropped
Pride in Your Words, our first-ever zine. Beginning today, consumers can download the digital issue, and can sign up to receive one of 1,000 copies of our 60-page print edition in the mail.
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May 25, 2022

In May we celebrate centuries of Jewish contributions to American culture and society during
Jewish American Heritage Month. And last month the Jewish Book Council honored the winners of this year’s National Jewish Book Awards, now in its 71st year. Congratulations to all Penguin Random House winners and finalists, featured below:
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May 20, 2022

Random House author/journalist
Wesley Morgan has won this year’s William E. Colby Award for his book,
THE HARDEST PLACE: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley. Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont, annually presents this award, now in its 23rd year, to a first solo work of fiction or nonfiction that has made a major contribution to the understanding of military history, intelligence operations or international affairs. The Colby Award was named for the late ambassador and former CIA director William E. Colby. Award winners receive a $5,000 author honorarium provided by the Pritzker Military Foundation.
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May 20, 2022
“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...”
― Leo Tolstoy
What’s the buzz about? Bees! Today, May 20,, is
World Bee Day. Not only are bees necessary to our ecosystem – they are fascinating insects to learn and read about. For more than honey, we need our bee population to thrive and recommend the following books for your to
bee read list!
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May 19, 2022

With the countdown to the debut of the
WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING film version two months away, Sony Pictures has just released its second coming-attractions preview online and to run on theater screens ahead of
Top Gun: Maverick, and other new releases.
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May 19, 2022

Michelle Zauner, photo credit Michael Lionstar
Michelle Zauner may be the first PRH author to perform on NBC-TV’s “Saturday Night Live” as a
musical guest. The Knopf author of
CRYING IN H MART, the resonant memoir now in its 43rd week on the
New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller list, is equally celebrated as the lead for the indie pop band Japanese Breakfast. The band’s latest album,
Jubilee, contended for two GRAMMY Awards earlier this year, including Best New Artist.
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May 17, 2022
Everyone has unique career stories to tell. In our
My Path to Penguin Random House series, PRH colleagues share how they entered the world of book publishing, what led them to our company, insights into their jobs, and their future professional aspirations. This week, we’re featuring
Jeffery Corrick, Director of Permissions, Penguin Random House.
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May 17, 2022

With sadness we report that
Ann Spinelli, former Vice President, Executive Art Director for the Putnam Publishing Group, passed away on May 9, 2022.
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May 17, 2022
Hogarth, an imprint of
Random House, will be publishing two new books from the International Booker Prize winner,
Han Kang.
Parisa Ebrahimi at Hogarth acquired North American rights to the books from agent Laurence Laluyaux at Rogers, Coleridge and White, and Hamish Hamilton Publishing Director, Simon Prosser bought British and Commonwealth volume rights; translation rights to WE DO NOT PART have been sold by RCW in 17 territories so far.
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May 17, 2022

Did you know that May is Short Story Month? And that much of Penguin Random House’s most acclaimed, prize-winning fiction is of the short story variety? A great short story can leave a strong impression on its reader, given the author’s economy of language in developing plot and character. Our recommended collections span the globe and a gamut of themes, yet won’t take hours to inhabit. Enjoy!
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May 17, 2022

Patricia Lockwood, Photo © Grep Hoax
This year’s
Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize winner is
Patricia Lockwood for her debut novel
NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS, published by
Riverhead in the U.S. She received a £20,000 cash award. The Dylan Thomas Prize is one of the world’s largest literary prizes for young writers and it is awarded to the best literary work published in the English language from authors aged 39 or younger.
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May 17, 2022
Random House has announced the launch of
Random House Worlds, a new publishing imprint dedicated entirely to licensed book publishing. This newly created imprint will be the home for major pop culture brands to be published within the Random House division, including Star Wars, Minecraft, Stranger Things, Garfield, Magic: The Gathering, Lore Olympus, Critical Role, and others.
Keith Clayton, VP, Deputy Publisher of Del Rey, will now also lead the Random House Worlds imprint as Publishing Director.
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May 16, 2022

Trevor Bundy
Everyone has unique career stories to tell. In our new
Igloo series,
My Path to Penguin Random House, PRH colleagues share how they entered the world of book publishing, what led them to our company, insights into their jobs, and their future professional aspirations.
This week, we’re featuring
Trevor Bundy, Senior Manager, National Accounts, Sales, Penguin Young Readers. His path to publishing and PYR featured a number of twists, turns, and detours that are quite unique.
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May 13, 2022

Azmat Khan, courtesy of azmatzahra.com. David Philipps, Photo © Michael Ciaglo
As we continue to bask in the halo of this year's General Nonfiction Pulitzer winner,
INVISIBLE CHILD: Poverty, Survival, And Hope In An American City by Andrea Elliott from Random House, we also happily acknowledge two winners of the Journalism Pulitzers are our authors.
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May 13, 2022

We’re thrilled to share that All Ways Black took
top honors at this year’s Shorty Awards, with our launch video
Introducing All Ways Black winning Best Medium-Length Video. Competition in the category was fierce, and All Ways Black managed to beat out fellow nominees Meta, Samsung, Yext, Planned Parenthood, Under Armor, and VH1.
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