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Your Invitation to Join Tonight’s MacDowell 2021 Virtual National Benefit

RHCB’s author Mahogany L. Browne to receive Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award

Join MacDowell’s 2021 Virtual National Benefit tonight, Tuesday, December 7, 7:00 pm –10:00 pm (ET). This year’s celebration honors Urban Word with the 2nd annual Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award, presented to Random House Children’s Books author Mahogany L. Browne, Artistic Director of Urban Word NYC, and Poet-in-Residence at Lincoln Center. There will also be conversations with MacDowell Fellows, and a performance by a youth poet from Urban Word. Continue reading →

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Random House Special Events to Cap Stellar 2021 With Virtual Holiday House

The Random House Special Events program is capping off a stellar year of virtual event programming that reached over 40,000 readers with four blockbuster events and nearly 30,000 books sold. With events for THE 1619 PROJECT: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones and the New York Times Magazine (One World), Diana Gabaldon’s ninth Outlander novel, GO TELL THE BEES THAT I AM GONE (Delacorte Press), Glennon Doyle’s GET UNTAMED: The Journal (How to Quit Pleasing and Start Living) (Clarkson Potter), and ATLAS OF THE HEART by Brené Brown (Random House), the Random House Special Events team, in conjunction with the division’s integrated publicity and marketing teams, partnered with 198 bookstores across the country to help them offer their customers event experiences for some of the biggest book publications of 2021. Continue reading →

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Putnam’s Sally Kim Named Poets & Writers 2022 “The Editor’s Award” Winner

Poets & Writers, one of America’s most respected national organizations for fostering the professional development of its namesakes, and for promoting communication throughout and among the literary and reading communities, has chosen Sally Kim, Senior Vice President and Publisher of Putnam, as the recipient of its 2022 “The Editor’s Award.” The annual prize “recognizes a book editor who has made an outstanding contribution to the publication of poetry or literary prose over a sustained period of time.” Continue reading →

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PRH Launches End-of-Year Campaign: Find Your Light

The Consumer Marketing team is proud to announce the launch of our year-end brand campaign: The Year in Books 2021—Find Your Light. When looking back on the totality of 2021, we were blown away by how profoundly our books and authors have shaped and influenced culture this year—both in terms of driving conversation and in terms of how people have chosen to spend their time. So, we wanted to honor that. The campaign celebrates how books and authors have brought light to the world this year in all different ways, drawing on Amanda Gorman’s iconic words that started our year: “Where can we find light in this never-ending shade?” Continue reading →

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The TASTE Podcast is Back!

After a two-year hiatus, the TASTE Podcast, recorded at our very own 1745 Broadway studios, is back with a fresh new batch of lively conversations about cooking, with chefs and authors like Jacques Pépin, Eric Kim, and Priya Krishna. Continue reading →

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Friday Reads: The Beatles!

Have you been watching The Beatles: Get Back? Directed by Peter Jackson, the documentary covers the making of the Beatles’ 1970 album Let It Be and has been widely praised by critics. To meet the surge of interest in this most famous of bands, we present the following Beatles books for your weekend reading and beyond: Continue reading →

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WNDB and PRH Announce Winners of the First Black Creatives Fund Revisions Workshop

We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) and Penguin Random House are excited to announce the two winners of the inaugural Revisions Workshop, who will each receive grants of $4,500. The Revisions Workshop is one of three initiatives within WNDB’s Black Creatives Fund, which launched in early 2021 to support Black writers and illustrators. Penguin Random House was the inaugural sponsor of the fund in the 2021 calendar year and will sponsor the program again in 2022. Continue reading →

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RSVP and Cast Your Votes for The First-Ever All Ways Black Awards

To celebrate all of the labor and love that Bookstagrammers, authors, and readers have shared this year, the Consumer Marketing team invites you to join Cree Myles, curator of All Ways Black, for the first-ever All Ways Black Awards on Thursday, December 9 from 8 – 9 pm ET (virtual doors open at 7:30 pm ET). Continue reading →

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There’s a Book for That: Hanukkah

In 2021, Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, began at sundown on Sunday, November 28, and will last until sundown on Monday, December 6. Hanukkah is Hebrew for “dedication” and it commemorates the victory of the Maccabees over the Syrian Greek army, and the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and restoring its menorah, or lamp. The “miracle” of Hanukkah is that only one vial of oil was found with just enough oil to illuminate the Temple lamp for one day, and yet it lasted for eight full days. As families celebrate the holiday, we’ve gathered the following Hanukkah titles for children to learn from and enjoy: Continue reading →

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Mbue, Lockwood, Clark Among Our 5 NYTBR “10 Best of 2021” Authors

From the 41 titles selected by the editors of the New York Times Book Review from Penguin Random House imprints as part of the “100 Notables of 2021,” its editors have chosen five among its “10 Best Books of 2021.” Announced November 30, they are posted in the full list clickable on the NYT website, and ahead in the Book Review’s December 13 print edition. Continue reading →

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