The Week Ahead
PW senior writer Andrew Albanese
reports on a bill introduced in
Missouri that proposes to censor
books for young readers—and
potentially jail librarians who
refuse to comply.
publishersweekly.com/mizzou
More to Come
Cohost Heidi MacDonald discusses
her Eisner-nominated blog The
Beat amicably parting ways with
Polarity.
publishersweekly.com/thebeat
Reagan Arthur, senior v-p and publisher of
Little, Brown, has been named executive v-p,
publisher, of Knopf, Pantheon, and Schocken at
Penguin Random House, effective February 11.
In other major changes following the December
30 death of Sonny Mehta, Maya Mavjee is
returning to PRH from Macmillan to become
president and publisher of the Knopf
Doubleday Publishing Group, and Jordan
Pavlin has been promoted to senior v-p,
editorial director, Alfred A. Knopf.
ReadTribe, the name of a new
venture matching readers with book
clubs, has become ReadClubHub
after a controversy erupted over the
use of the word tribe for marketing
purposes, with some calling it racist.©
MICHAELLIONSTARPeter Hubbard and Kate Nintzel
have been named v-p, editorial director
and executive editor, respectively, of
Morrow’s Custom House imprint. Their
appointments follow the departure of
founding editor Geoff Shandler.
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Children’s
Bookshelf
After 10 years,
Philip and
Erin Stead
are working on a sequel to their
Caldecott-winning picture book,
A Sick Day for Amos McGee.
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In Depth: Economist and
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