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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 Gets Mushy; Book Cover Cover-Up?

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.

So, it would appear, is the motto of the millennium for New York book publishers, as they look toward a place they once held at arm’s distance–Hollywood–for new talent. Take Little, Brown & Company, publisher of literary novelists such as David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest ) and Rick Read More