Pat Kiernan Is ‘in the Papers’ for Book Deal Pat Kiernan has signed a deal for a picture book called Wake Up City. By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Galway Kinnell, 1927-2014 Galway Kinnell, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and National Book Award for Poetry, has died. By Rebecca Kurson
The Problem Child: Why Won’t America Publish Sheila Heti’s Second Novel? “We live in an age of some really great blow-job artists,” begins the fiction piece in the latest issue of By Kat Stoeffel
Farrar, Straus Publisher Jonathan Galassi Carefully Assures Staff: ‘We Are Not Going to Change’ By Leon Neyfakh
Macmillan Cuts 64 Positions; FSG’s Subsidiary Rights Department to Merge With Henry Holt’s By Leon Neyfakh
Severe Layoffs at Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Associate Publisher Linda Rosenberg and Head of Production Tom Consiglio Both Out By Leon Neyfakh
New Yorker Book Blog Checks In With FSG, Penguin, and Hachette As Worst Week Ever Ends By Leon Neyfakh
After Years of Patience, FSG Finds a Vladimir Sorokin Book They Want to Publish in English By Leon Neyfakh
Farrar, Straus’s Mitzi Angel Brings Young French Novelist’s Debut to America; Lorin Stein to Translate By Leon Neyfakh