The PW Morning Report, March 2, 2009
By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 3/2/2009 6:14:00 AM
Monday, March 2, 2009
A dail
y round-up of the latest publishing news: New David Foster Wallace Novel; Random House Acquires Ten Speed Press; Penguin Had "Very Strong Year" in U.S.; Washington Post Profiles White House’s Official Photographer; Dublin Book Festival; and Do Money Gurus Know What They’re Talking About?
Unfinished David Foster Wallace Novel to be Published in 2010, reports AP
Little, Brown will publish The Pale King in 2010. It is being excerpted in the New Yorker magazine this week. Little, Brown said in a statement Sunday that the novel runs "several hundred thousand words and will include notes, outlines, and other material"
Random House Acquires Ten Speed Press, reports New York Times
Ten Speed Press was founded by Philip Wood in 1971 and is best known as the publisher of the What Color Is Your Parachute? job search books
Penguin Had "Very Strong Year" in U.S. in 2008, reports The Bookseller
It exceeded its full-year targets and outperformed the overall market
Washington Post Profiles White House’s Official Photographer
Pete Souza is also the author of The Rise of Barack Obama, which Triumph Books published in the spring of 2007
Dublin Gets Ready for Its Book Festival, reports Irish Times
The Dublin Book Festival will rev up next weekend in the Irish capital
Do Money Gurus/Book Authors Know What They’re Talking About?
Joel Lovell asks that question in an op-ed in the Washington Post. Do Jim Cramer or Suze Orman or Rick Santelli—there’s got to be a book contract going his way for his display of anti-journalism on CNBC—just to name a few, know any more than the average guy about money?
