At this year’s National Book Awards ceremony, fiction winner Jesmyn Ward thanked Mississippi independent booksellers for helping Salvage the Bones find its readership. Here, Ward talks about the role of indies in advocating for her work, her Mississippi background, and her upcoming memoir.
Emily Adams, buyer and book club coordinator at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, Washington, has been named the winner of the second annual Joe Drabyak Frontline Fellowship, sponsored by Workman Publishing.
At the 62nd annual National Book Awards ceremony, held yesterday in New York City, stories of struggle were honored and the award winners, who included three women of color, gave voice to them. Also honored with lifetime achievement awards were Books & Books’ Mitchell Kaplan and poet John Ashbery.
Thirty-seven booksellers have been named the winners of publisher-sponsored scholarships to the American Booksellers Association’s Seventh Annual Winter Institute, sponsored by the Ingram Content Group.
On Thursday, November 10, ABA announced that Joy Dallanegra-Sanger, a long-time book industry professional, was joining the association as senior program officer, a newly created senior executive position.
Maryelizabeth Hart, co-owner of Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore, in San Diego, California, is the editor of San Diego Noir (Akashic Books), an anthology that showcases award-winning and first-time authors, while exposing a darker side of San Diego.
The independent bookselling community recently lost two of its own: James (Jim) Hull Farley, the founder and owner of Farley’s Bookshop, and Necia (Nicky) Salan, the founder of Cover to Cover Booksellers in San Francisco.
