Jonathan Franzen

Jon Yaged to succeed Don Weisberg as Macmillan CEO

May 3, 2022 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The CEO of Macmillan Publishers, Don Weisberg, will step down at the end of the year. Jon Yaged, currently the company's president, will succeed him.

"I can, without hesitation, say that there could be no better time for me to step aside," Weisberg, 67, said in a statement Tuesday.

Novelist Megha Majumdar among winners of Whiting Award

April 7, 2022 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Megha Majumdar, whose novel “A Burning” was among the most talked about debuts of recent years, is among 10 recipients of a Whiting Award for emerging authors. Fiction writers Claire Boyles and Nana Nkweti, poets Ina Cariño and Anthony Cody and nonfiction writers Anaïs Duplan and Alexis Pauline Gumbs also will receive $50,000 each in prize money.

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By The Associated PressOctober 28, 2021 GMT

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. “The Judge's List” by John Grisham (Doubleday)

2. “The Wish” by Nicholas sparks (Grand Central Publishing)

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By The Associated PressOctober 21, 2021 GMT

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. “State of Terror” by Clinton/Penny (Simon & Schuster/St. Martin's Press)

2. “The Wish” by Nicholas sparks (Grand Central Publishing)

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By The Associated PressOctober 14, 2021 GMT

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. “The Lincoln Highway” by Amor Towles (Viking)

2. “The Wish” by Nicholas sparks (Grand Central Publishing)

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By The Associated PressOctober 14, 2021 GMT

1. “The Lincoln Highway” by Amor Towles (Viking)

2. “The Storyteller” by Dave Grohl (Dey Street Books)

3. “The Wish” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)

Review: Franzen dreams big, and goes deep, with ‘Crossroads’

By ROB MERRILLOctober 5, 2021 GMT

“Crossroads,” by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Jonathan Franzen dreams big. His newest novel, “Crossroads,” arrives with an audible thud on readers’ doorsteps and will easily hold those doors open at 580 pages.