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Publisher of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt quits

NEW YORK (AP) -- The senior vice president and publisher of adult trade books at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has quit, effective Dec. 10. Spokesman Josef Blumenfeld confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday that Becky Saletan has resigned, but ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, The Orange County Register,  2 Dec 2008

Publisher of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt quits

NEW YORK—The senior vice president and publisher of adult trade books at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has quit, effective Dec. 10. Spokesman Josef Blumenfeld confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday that Becky Saletan has resigned, but declined ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, Boston Globe,  2 Dec 2008

Publisher of Harcourt Houghton Mufflin quits

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Associated Press has learned that the senior vice president and publisher of adult trade books at Harcourt Houghton Mifflin has quit, effective December 10th. Spokesman Josef Blumenfeld confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, Buffalo News,  2 Dec 2008

Publisher disputes reports of book-buying freeze

NEW YORK—Reports of a buying freeze at Harcourt Houghton Mifflin is news to the publisher of one its imprints. "I don't work at the Harcourt offices so I called to find out if the story was true," Otto Penzler, whose Otto Penzler Books specializes in ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, Boston Globe,  26 Nov 2008

Publisher disputes reports of book-buying freeze

NEW YORK—Reports of a buying freeze at Harcourt Houghton Mifflin is news to the publisher of one its imprints. "I don't work at the Harcourt offices so I called to find out if the story was true," Otto Penzler, whose Otto Penzler Books specializes in ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, Boston Globe,  26 Nov 2008

Publisher disputes reports of book-buying freeze

NEW YORK (AP) -- Reports of a buying freeze at Harcourt Houghton Mifflin is news to the publisher of one its imprints. "I don't work at the Harcourt offices so I called to find out if the story was true," Otto Penzler, whose Otto Penzler Books ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, Buffalo News,  26 Nov 2008

Matthiessen wins U.S. fiction prize

NEW YORK Judges for the U.S. National Book Award honoured a comeback Wednesday night, giving the fiction award to Peter Matthiessen's Shadow Country, a thorough revision of a trilogy of novels from the 1990s. The 81-year-old author last won a National ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, Globe and Mail,  20 Nov 2008

Matthiessen wins National Book Award fiction prize

Thursday, November 20, 2008 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Judges for the National Book Award honored a comeback Wednesday night, giving the fiction award to Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," a thorough revision of a trilogy of ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, Canton Repository,  20 Nov 2008

Washington novelists ponder Obama

In the 1960s, Irving Wallace wrote a novel called "The Man" in which the sudden deaths of the president, vice president and speaker of the House bring to power a most unlikely occupant of the Oval Office: Sen. Douglas Dillman _ a black man. ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, Taiwan News,  15 Nov 2008

Writers in awe of an audacious scribe

LAST winter, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison received a phone call from Senator Barack Obama, then the underdog to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Obama had contacted Morrison to ask for her ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, Shanghai Daily,  8 Nov 2008

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