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Stephen King’s longtime editor Nan Graham has been promoted to publisher and senior VP of Simon & Schuster’s Scribner imprint.
Graham has spent 18 years at the imprint, working with authors that included Don DeLillo, Miranda July, Frank McCourt, Annie Proulx, and Colm Toibin. Scribner Publishing Group president Susan Moldow had this statement in the release:
“As if Nan hadn’t amply proven how deserved this promotion is by her firm hand in shaping the list and staff and insuring the growth of the Scribner imprint over the last eighteen years, her performance of late surely demonstrates that she continues to exercise her singular editorial instincts, abilities, and leadership qualities at the highest levels.”
Digital publisher Byliner.com will launch its new fiction initiative with “Rules for Virgins,” a new story (set in 1912 Shanghai) by Joy Luck Club author Amy Tan.
Byliner Fiction will feature everything from short stories to novellas. Here’s more from the release: “We are beginning to build a structured archive on Byliner.com of great short fiction from writers such as Annie Proulx, Jonathan Franzen, Lorrie Moore, Paul Theroux, and Stewart O’Nan.”
Byliner will release Tan’s story, priced at $2.99, on December 5th. Readers can find it in the Amazon Kindle Singles store, at BarnesAndNoble.com, as a Quick Read in Apple’s iBook store and in the Google eBookstore. According to the company, this will be Tan’s first fiction publication in six years. Tan’s new novel, The Valley of Amazement, will be published by HarperCollins’ Ecco imprint.
On Saturday, Joan Acocella (author of the vampire essay, “In the Blood”) moderated the Vampires Revival panel. On board to speak were philosophy professor Noel Carroll, horror novelist Stephen King, vampire film director Matt Reeves, and Twilight screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg. A video preview of the panel discussion is embedded above.
Several dozen King fans waited outside the venue only to be disappointed by King’s unwillingness to sign books. As he walked away with his arms in the air, he told the crowd: “I can’t sign guys, I got to get something to eat.” Alas, just because he’s a “king” doesn’t mean he isn’t human.
Congratulations to our reader Yat-Yee, for correctly identifying which very cool introvert author made the statement below:
"I've often thought that if you could have an unlimited library, if they would bring you any book you wanted when you asked, it would be all right to be in prison."
Annie Proulx (pronounced "Proo") is the Pullitzer Prize winning author of what have been called "vividly imagined and boldly idiosyncratic works of fiction" including Heart Songs and Other Stories (1988), Postcards (1992), The Shipping News (1993), Acordian Crimes (1996), Close Range: Wyoming Stories (1999), That Old Ace in the Whole (2002), and Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 (2004). Her newest work just out is Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3. She is widely known for her famous short story "Brokeback Mountain," which was made into an award-winning and controversial major motion picture. She was the first woman to win the prestigious PEN/Faulkner book award, for her debut novel Postcards. Her list of literary awards is nearly endless.
Annie Proulx, now 73, lives alone in Wyoming on 640 acres (sound of introverts sighing in envy) with a mile of riverfront, five miles outside of Saratoga. To get there you head up past Laramie through the Snowy Mountains and Medicine Bow National Forest. She is surrounded by Black Angus cattle, limestone cliffs and yellow aspen. To do the writing that she does, she needs time and isolation. Toward the end of a project, she works up to sixteen hours a day.
She says that she doesn't mind that writing is a solitary pursuit, and that she likes to be alone. "The downside of the writing life is that you are a constant observer of other people's lives. I was always the one at parties standing against the wall."
Her first book was published when she was 53 years old (sound of older introverts sighing happily). "For me, the story falls out of a place, its geology and climate, the flora, fauna, prevailing winds, the weather. I am not people-centric, and I'm appalled at what human beings have done to the planet . . . "
Annie Proulx is not a major fan of the media and has worked hard to keep her world private and real. She generally refuses interviews. Winning the Pulitzer Prize brought a great deal of attention to her door. "It's not good for one's view of human nature, that's for sure. You begin to see, when invitations are coming from festivals and colleges to come read (for an hour for a hefty sum of money), that the institutions are head-hunting for trophy writers. Most don't particularly care about your writing or what you're trying to say. You're there as a human object, one that has won a prize. It gives you a very odd, meat-rack kind of sensation."
She next plans to spend this coming winter in a little apartment in Albuquerque doing research at the University of Mexico. Her excitement at the prospect of that is "palpable." And she is looking forward to the change in her landscape.
The Shrinking Violets are very pleased to induct Ms. Annie Proulx into our Coolest Introverts in Literature Hall of Fame.Gosh, justwait 'til she hears this! Pulitzer- Schmulitzer, we're talking SVP Hall of Fame, people!
I have *got* to write enough books to own that kind of empty real estate. What a lovely thought.
I like her comments on the trophy-hunting thing as well; it's an odd perspective to know you're valued merely for your prize and not your words. I love that she's perspicacious enough to observe this...
Thanks, Mary and Robin! Even though I don't really deserve it because I had the help of Ms. Google. But I'll take the book and after I read it, write a review and generally tell the world about it.
The nicest thing about making it into the Introverts' Hall of Fame is that we don't make you attend a ceremony in person ... because then we'd all have to go, too. ;-)
I'd love to get to the point in my writing where I can refuse interviews, too. Although the idea of living by myself sounds REALLY good oftentimes (I'm still a newlywed at just a little over 2 yrs), I don't think I could do it on 640 acres in freezing-my-ass-off Wyoming. I think I'd rather have an Enchanted Cottage like SARK (who's SO not an introvert, but I love her anyway).
Stephen King’s longtime editor Nan Graham has been promoted to publisher and senior VP of Simon & Schuster’s Scribner imprint.
Digital publisher Byliner.com will launch its new fiction initiative with “Rules for Virgins,” a new story (set in 1912 Shanghai) by Joy Luck Club author Amy Tan.
Six hundred and forty acres..>!? Oh. My. Word.
I have *got* to write enough books to own that kind of empty real estate. What a lovely thought.
I like her comments on the trophy-hunting thing as well; it's an odd perspective to know you're valued merely for your prize and not your words. I love that she's perspicacious enough to observe this...
Thanks, Mary and Robin! Even though I don't really deserve it because I had the help of Ms. Google. But I'll take the book and after I read it, write a review and generally tell the world about it.
53 y.o.
Yes, I still have some time...
The nicest thing about making it into the Introverts' Hall of Fame is that we don't make you attend a ceremony in person ... because then we'd all have to go, too. ;-)
I'd love to get to the point in my writing where I can refuse interviews, too. Although the idea of living by myself sounds REALLY good oftentimes (I'm still a newlywed at just a little over 2 yrs), I don't think I could do it on 640 acres in freezing-my-ass-off Wyoming. I think I'd rather have an Enchanted Cottage like SARK (who's SO not an introvert, but I love her anyway).