Sean McDonald is leaving Riverhead Books for Farrar, Straus & Giroux, reports The Awl.
Here’s how The Observer described him back in 2003, when he was but an emergent “Power Punk”:
Big, quiet, slightly rough-hewn Sean McDonald, the senior editor and online creative director of Riverhead Books, has become Read More
Prolific crime novelist Walter Mosley, author of the bestselling Easy Rawlins mystery series, has left his longtime publisher, Little, Brown, and signed a three-book contract with Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Group, it was announced today.
According to a press release, Mr. Mosley’s first book for Riverhead, where he will be edited by Read More
On Thursday, Jan. 26, Nan A. Talese, the publisher of A Million Little Pieces, appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s now-infamous James Frey take-down show.
But Ms. Talese truly had no idea what she was in for.
“I was asked to go onto a program that was going to have James on it, and then I Read More
Riverhead Books’ big man from Laguna Beach edits James Frey, Wu-Tang Clan, takes up a lot of space
Big, quiet, slightly rough-hewn Sean McDonald, the senior editor and online creative director of Riverhead Books, has become the Zen master of the publishing world. He inspires utter confidence among his peers, exuding a kind of quintessential Read More
