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There’s a Book For That: Mental Health Awareness Month

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, observed at this time each year since 1949 when it was established by Mental Health America. This year’s theme is Risky Business.

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Denis Leary’s New Book to Tell Us Why We Don’t Suck

Crown Archetype has announced that it will publish a new book by one of America’s most original and biting comic satirists Denis Leary. In WHY WE DON’T SUCK: And How All of Us Need to Stop Being Such Partisan Little Bitches, Leary will target liberals and conservatives alike with his incisive and sharp humor and signature doses of sarcasm and common sense. Continue reading →

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Fasten Your Seat Belts for AMERICAN KINGPIN

This week’s Igloo Book Buzz selection is Nick Bilton’s AMERICAN KINGPIN: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road, “the unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom—and almost got away with it.” Portfolio published the book on May 2, and Mr. Continue reading →

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From THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN Author Paula Hawkins Comes INTO THE WATER

The wait is over. Two and a half years since she took the world by storm with her international bestselling sensation THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, Paula Hawkins returns with INTO THE WATER, on sale from Riverhead Books on May 2. In an “equally addicting page-turner” (Marie Claire) that brings the same psychological Continue reading →

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Featured Author Event: W. Kamau Bell

Dutton author W. Kamau Bell is launching his new book THE AWKWARD THOUGHTS OF W. KAMAU BELL at the Bell House in Brooklyn this coming Tuesday 5/2, and bestselling Blue Rider author Chuck Klosterman will be moderating. Doors open at 7 pm and the show begins at 8 pm. Tickets can be purchased here. A copy of the book, which goes on sale May 2, is included in the $27 ticket price. Continue reading →

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Our 6 L.A. Times Book Award Winners

The 38th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced at the L.A. Times Festival of Books this past weekend at the University of Southern California. Knopf/Vintage author Thomas McGuane received the 2016 Robert Kirsch Award, which recognizes the body of work of a writer of the American West; Continue reading →

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Friday Reads: Option B by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant

This week saw the publication of Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant’s eagerly anticipated book, Option B. The book, and its authors, are getting a lot of media attention appearing on Good Morning America and NPR’s Morning Edition, to name a couple. Sandberg is COO of Facebook and the Continue reading →

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Our 2 Edgar Winners and Putnam Associate Publisher Neil Nyren’s Ellery Queen Award Honor

Mystery Writers of America announced Thursday night, April 27, the winners of its coveted Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced in 2016. Two of our authors’ books published by Penguin Random House imprints won Edgars. Also, the MWA’s Ellery Queen Award, established in 1983 to honor outstanding writing teams and outstanding people in the mystery-publishing industry, was Continue reading →

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Judith Jones Inducted into the James Beard Hall of Fame

Judith Jones, a longtime editor at Alfred A. Knopf, was honored this week by the James Beard Foundation when she was inducted into their Cookbook Hall of Fame. This was Judith’s second Beard honor – in 2006, she received the James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. Continue reading →

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Our 2017 James Beard Books and Media Award Winners

The annual James Beard Foundation Books, Broadcast and Journalism Awards were held Tuesday night in New York City. Ten Speed Press and Clarkson Potter won a combined seven awards, including the James Beard Book of the Year, which went to Clarkson Potter’s VICTUALS by Ronni Lundy, from Senior Editor Francis Lam. Francis also went home with two journalism awards of his own. Continue reading →

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