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BOOKS CONNECT US is Back! Meet Your Hosts.

Stay connected with the authors and stories that inspire you! On this new season of the Books Connect Us podcast, join your new hosts Alyssa Adler and Carolina Meurkens in conversation with diverse authors, as they discuss how identity impacts writing, the inspiration behind their books, and how storytelling can change the world. Books Connect Us brings you the inside scoop on “the story behind the story”, as we talk to your favorite authors to learn about the process of writing and publishing their books and the why behind their stories.

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PRH Donates Nearly 200 Cookbooks to Youth Culinary Program

Participants receive certificates and a PRH goodie bag of books.

For the past several years, Penguin Random House has donated to Jr Iron Chef Vermont, and we are excited to continue this partnership and share that we have donated nearly 200 books this year! By donating cookbooks to the organization, we are equipping these students with some of the tools they need to further develop their culinary skills.

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Friday Reads: Graphic Novels

What’s novel about graphic novels? For one, that two mediums tell the story: Writing and art combine to give readers a visual and visceral experience. Below are some of the very best of the genre for a range of ages. We are sure they’ll surprise you! Continue reading →

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Alyssa Castaneda Featured at Ad Age’s Creator Summit!

Alyssa Castaneda, Associate Director of Social Media at Penguin Random House, recently spoke at Ad Age Creator Summit, a gathering of creators, brands, and agencies in NYC focused on the booming creator economy and strategies for developing long-term, sustainable partnerships. Other speakers included top creators Rod Thill (@justme.rod) and Christina Najjar (@tinx), as well as executives from e.l.f Beauty, Honda, Olipop and more.

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My Path to PRH: Kristen Capano on the Importance of Listening and Working in the Audio Division

2019 New York City ComicCon with PRH colleagues

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 Kristen Capano, Audio Production Assistant, Audio Publishing Group and production lead on the This is the Author podcast, as she tells us her story in her own words.

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Knopf to Publish Brittney Griner’s Memoir Next Spring 2024

Brittany Griner, credit Evan Millstein.

Alfred A. Knopf will publish Brittney Griner’s as-of-yet untitled memoir next spring 2024, an announcement made today by Reagan Arthur, Knopf EVP and Publisher.

For the first time Griner recounts the tumultuous events of 2022 that both reshaped her life and captured the world’s attention: Griner’s arrest at the Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow on February 17, followed by her detention, trial, and imprisonment in Russia, as well as the efforts in public and behind the scenes at the highest levels of government to bring her home. Griner’s memoir also documents how the global #WeAreBG movement began as well as the issue of pay equity for women athletes in the United States – the very inequity that led Griner to play basketball in Russia for seven previous seasons and to return for an eighth on that fateful February day.

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There’s a Book for That: National Arab American Heritage Month

Welcome National Arab American Heritage Month! On March 31^st, 2023 President Joe Biden issued an historic proclamation recognizing April as National Arab American Heritage Month: “This month, we join together to celebrate the immeasurable contributions of Arab Americans to our Nation and recommit ourselves to the timeless work of making sure that all people have the opportunity to achieve the American Dream.” In honor of the occasion we invite you to discover the following new and acclaimed novels and memoirs by and about Arab Americans: Continue reading →

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Friday Reads: Poetry for Younger Readers

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.— Juan Felipe Herrera

Let’s hear it for the poets! As we continue to celebrate the 27th National Poetry Month, our spotlight turns to poetry for kids and teens (and truly all ages!). Loving music and lyrics as so many do, it’s natural for young people to write and enjoy poetry with its beats and rhymes. The popularity of spoken word, slam, and Instagram poetry is testament to the power of poetry to give voice to feelings and experiences that may be too hard to articulate otherwise. Poetry is a wonderful mental health tool! And here are some beautiful books filled with joyful, imaginative, and cathartic verse: Continue reading →

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Random House Author Deborah Cohen Wins the Mark Lynton History Prize for LAST CALL AT THE HOTEL IMPERIAL

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard recently announced the winners of the 2023 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards, including the Mark Lynton History Prize for Deborah Cohen’s LAST CALL AT THE HOTEL IMPERIAL: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War, published by Random House. Established in 1998, the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project honors the best in American nonfiction writing. Co-administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, and sponsored by the family of the late Mark Lynton, a historian and senior executive at the firm Hunter Douglas in the Netherlands, the Lukas Prize Project annually presents four awards in three categories. Ms. Cohen will receive her $10,000 prize at the awards ceremony on Wednesday, May 3^rd, which will be held at Columbia Journalism School.

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