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Yesterday we posted 57 new deals at Publishers Marketplace (and 3 more so far today), among them: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch's A REPUBLIC, IF YOU CAN KEEP IT, eight original essays offering insight into his journey to the Court; James Duesterberg's FINAL FANTASY, which traces the links between postwar technology, politics, and subculture, ranging across the US and the UK, Europe and China; Author of TEMPER Layne Fargo's LEARN HER WRATH, in which a college professor's secret life murdering the worst men on campus starts to catch up with her when she picks her sexist boss as her next victim; Italian translator of THE GREAT GATSBY Claudia Durastanti's LA STRANIERA, about a young woman's coming of age in New York and Southern Italy with two deaf parentst; Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 Sophie van Llewyn's BOTTLED GOODS, set in 1970s Communist Romania, where a young newlywed under state surveillance after her brother-in-law defects to the West seeks help from her well-connected aunt.
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Today's Meal
Joe Davidson is joining Black Dog & Leventhal as editor, starting April 8. Previously he was an editor at Rizzoli.
Acquisitions Charleston, SC-based
Arcadia Publishing has an agreement to acquire "the significant majority of [the] assets" of New Orleans-based
Pelican Publishing, which has a list of over 2,000 titles. The transaction will close in May. Arcadia ceo David Steinberger says in the announcement, "It is a publisher that fits well with Arcadia’s mission, which is to connect people with their past, with their communities and with one another.”
Pelican president and publisher Kathleen Calhoun Nettleton, whose family has owned the publishing house since 1970, says: "We could not be more pleased to have found the right long-term home for Pelican." She will stay with the company following the acquisition.
It's the second purchase for Lezen Acquisition, which acquired Arcadia in May 2018,
with the intention of buying multiple publishing houses.
Awards The long
10-title shortlist for the €100,000
International Dublin Literary Award was announced. The winner will be named June 12.
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