On May 1, former Houghton Mifflin publisher Janet Silver starts her new job as an editor at large at Nan Talese’s boutique literary imprint at Doubleday.
Back in January, Ms. Silver and several other editors at Houghton Mifflin were made redundant as part of the company’s merger with Harcourt.
But Ms. Silver Read More
Anton Mueller, who was laid off from Houghton Mifflin last month, has found a new job at Bloomsbury USA, a house that recently suffered an upheaval when founding President Karen Rinaldi resigned and went to work for someone else.
Mr. Mueller’s firing was greeted with furrowed brows across the publishing community, but Read More
Janet Silver, who lost her position as publisher of Houghton Mifflin’s trade division last month when that company was merged with Harcourt, has landed firmly on her feet, joining Nan Talese’s eponymous imprint at Doubleday as editor-at-large.
At Houghton, Ms. Silver edited books by Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Safran Foer, and a Read More
Four editors were laid off last week at Houghton Mifflin and Harcourt, which merged into one company at the end of last year. The layoffs come about a month after Houghton’s longtime publisher, Janet Silver, was let go in favor of Harcourt publisher Becky Saletan.
As reported on the industry Web site Publisher’s Marketplace, Read More
A press release from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt just went out announcing that Becky Saletan, who was previously the publisher of Harcourt Trade, has been appointed vice president and publisher of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Adult Trade.
Janet Silver, meanwhile, is out as vice president and publisher of Houghton Mifflin. She’d been with the company for 24 Read More
Janet Silver is out as vice president and publisher of Houghton Mifflin, Media Mob has learned.
The shake-up comes as a result of Houghton Mifflin’s acquisition of Harcourt, which was finalized last month.
More details to come.
First, the bad news: Two new books are going to forcefully remind us of the long-term disaster we’re busy ushering in. Tim Flannery’s The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth (Grove/Atlantic) is endorsed with a blurb from Tony Blair; and Elizabeth Kolbert’s sober and scary Read More
First, the bad news: Two new books are going to forcefully remind us of the long-term disaster we’re busy ushering in. Tim Flannery’s The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth (Grove/Atlantic) is endorsed with a blurb from Tony Blair; and Elizabeth Kolbert’s sober and scary Read More
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer. Houghton Mifflin, 326 pages, $24.95.
Well-he’s brave. Or maybe just foolhardy. Jonathan Safran Foer has attacked head-on the problem of how to follow up on the best-selling Everything Is Illuminated (2002), his quirky, endearing, Holocaust-haunted debut. He’s now aimed his wit, charm and considerable Read More
It’s every author’s dream: You write a book that everybody loves. It gets fabulous reviews-one of them on the front page of The New York Times Book Review . You appear on the Today show and on C-Span and you tape Charlie Rose . There’s even interest from Hollywood-and you fly out to take some Read More
