Elizabeth A. Harris

Aug 20, 2024 | nytimes.com | Alexandra Alter |Elizabeth A. Harris

When Lisa Lucas was hired in the summer of 2020 to take a big job at the country's largest book publisher, there was a sense that things were finally starting to change in what has long been an overwhelmingly white industry. Lucas, who became the publisher of Pantheon and Schocken, imprints within Penguin Random House, was an unusual choice for the job. Executives in the book business often spend decades working their way up the ranks.

Aug 7, 2024 | nytimes.com | Elizabeth A. Harris |Maggie Astor

The book's author is Kevin D. Roberts, the president of Heritage Foundation, which coordinated the right-wing policy blueprint that has come under fire from Democrats. Kevin D. Roberts is president of the Heritage Foundation, the group that coordinated Project 2025, which was intended to be a policy blueprint for the next Republican president. Credit... Leigh Vogel for The New York Times The publication of a book written by Kevin D.

Aug 7, 2024 | nytimes.com | Elizabeth A. Harris

The author and journalist Bob Woodward will publish a new book this fall called "War," his publisher, Simon & Schuster, announced on Wednesday. The book, which will be released on Oct. 15, will focus on Ukraine, the Middle East and the "raw cage-fight of politics" of the 2024 election. "For more than 50 years, Woodward has done groundbreaking reporting on every president, starting with Richard Nixon," Jonathan Karp, the chief executive of Simon & Schuster and Woodward's editor, said in a statement.

Aug 5, 2024 | nytimes.com | Elizabeth A. Harris

Until a few years ago, mainstream publishers considered queer romance novels a niche business, a little slice of the market that served a particular population that would never going to deliver a blockbuster. Enter Casey McQuiston, who has published three queer romance novels, each of them a blockbuster. There are more than 3 million copies of McQuiston's books in print across formats, and they are best sellers not only in the United States but in other countries too, like Brazil and Poland.

Jul 31, 2024 | nytimes.com | Elizabeth A. Harris

Friday marks what would have been the 100th birthday of James Baldwin, the author of incandescent masterpieces including "The Fire Next Time," "Go Tell It on the Mountain" and "Giovanni's Room."Life took him from a boyhood as the eldest son of a preacher in Harlem to the American South during the Civil Rights Movement. He also spent years in Istanbul, Paris and the South of France, where he died in 1987 at age 63.