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Judy Clain Named Editor in Chief at Little, Brown

Promotion Monday at Little, Brown! Geoff Shandler, the most recent editor in chief at the publishing house, has been named to the new position of editorial director, where he will head an expansion in Little, Brown’s nonfiction program. Mr. Shandler’s replacement in the role of editor in chief will be Judy Clain, who has edited such mega-bestsellers as Julie and Julia by Julie Powell and Room by Emma Donaghue. According to a statement by publisher Michael Pietsch, Ms. Clain will now serve as Little, Brown’s “primary ambassador to agents” and oversee editorial hiring. And everybody gets to be a vice president! Read More

Little, Brown’s Little Wonder

On a recent Sunday morning, anyone who passed by the Starbucks on St. Marks Place might have seen an unassuming man dressed in a tattered Princeton sweatshirt, khaki pants and beaten-up tennis shoes sitting by the window. He looked like any of the thousands of unshaven, anonymous, ambitious young men who fill New York’s coffee Read More