Revolving Door

Journalist Kathryn Schulz has been named book critic at New York Magazine.

Editor-in-chief Adam Moss had this statement in the release: ”Our readers, who had a taste of Kathryn’s work last year, can look forward to thoughtful works beyond the traditional book review, on literary subjects and big ideas that books put in motion.  She’s the kind of writer you want to read on anything, because her mind is so interesting.”

Schulz (pictured, via) recently won the National Book Critics Circle’s Nona Balakian Prize for Excellence in Reviewing. She has contributed to several publications including The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, TIME magazine, The Nation, Foreign Policy,and the New York Times Book Review. In 2010 she published her book, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error. In 2011, she gave a TED talk “on being wrong.”

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Kristina Holmes will start her own literary agency, The Holmes Agency.

Holmes plans to take on nonfiction clients exclusively. Her list will be open to several different genres, including health and wellness, business, psychology, spirituality, sex, relationships, environmental issues, science, nature, literary nonfiction and memoir.

Previously, Holmes was a partner literary agent and consultant at Ebeling & Associates Literary Agency for six years. Some of the authors she has worked with include Garret Kramer, David Steinman and Gregory Lang.

Emily Williams has left Publisher’s Marketplace to join Barnes & Noble as manager of international content and digital products for BN.com.

In her new role she will manage international content and digital content for Barnes & Noble’s e-commerce website. Williams served as digital content producer at Publisher’s Marketplace in 2011.

Prior to that she was a contributor to F+W Media‘s Digital Book World and before that she worked as a contributor to Publishing Perspectives. She also worked as a senior scout for Maria B. Campbell & Associates.

Literary agent Celeste Fine will jump to Sterling Lord Literistic. She starts January 30th.

Fine (pictured, via) plans to take on projects from expert and celebrity authors in the health, science, food, business, and lifestyle genres. In addition, she will manage foreign rights for the agency’s children’s and young adult list.

Prior to this move, Fine served as the senior vice president and subsidiary rights director at Folio Literary Management. She has worked with a number of major authors, including Courtney Love, Dean Koontz and Janet Evanovich.

After 30 years at the newspaper, movie critic and author J. Hoberman has been cut at the Village Voice.

Most recently, the critic published An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War at New Press.

Daily Intel had a quote from Hoberman: “I would be disingenuous to say I hadn’t considered the possibility that this would happen to me eventually … I was shocked, but not surprised.” (Via Mediabistro Newsfeed)

After seven years at HarperCollins, Nicole Judge will serve in the new position of marketing director at Simon & Schuster’s Free Press division.

According to a memo from Free Press publisher Martha K. Levin, Judge will focus on “direct-to-consumer marketing efforts”

Here’s more from the memo: “Nicole comes to us from HarperCollins, where she has worked for 7 years, most recently as Associate Director of Marketing for Harper and HarperBusiness. She spearheaded the marketing campaigns on multiple bestselling titles including Jane Leavy’s The Last Boy, Steve Harvey’s Straight Talk, No Chaser, Jacqueline Winspear’s A Lesson in Secrets and Terry Pratchett’s Snuff. Previous to that Nicole was Marketing Manager for HarperPaperbacks.”

A few months after he joined Amazon New York as a senior editor, Ed Park is leaving The Believer.

Park helped found the literary journal in 2002, and has served as an editor there ever since.

Here’s more from The Believer: “Ed singlehandedly revived the exclamation-point industry, an industry whose smelters had shuttered and whose lobbyists found themselves homeless in the ice age of irony. No longer. Ed is a person whose person is enthusiastically available in the personless realms, which is where we like to conduct our office business. He brought pep and good humor and was, despite his amiability and vim, deceptively hard to please. We commemorate his contribution to the magazine by continuing the Parkian editorial tradition of hard-a**ed enthusiasm.”

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Alethea Spiridon-Hopson has been named Entangled Publishing’s new managing editor and an acquiring senior editor.

In her new role, Spiridon-Hopson will oversee the company’s new romance genre line (headed by editorial director Lori Wilde) called “Indulgence.”

Wilde gave this statement in the release: “Indulgence will focus on alpha heroes and storylines similar to those found in Harlequin’s very successful Desire line.  Our category romances will emphasize young, fresh voices within the traditional tropes.”

Spiridon-Hopson is looking for “flirty voices,” good humor and strong characters. Prior to this appointment, she served as an editor at Harlequin for almost seven years and worked as a freelance editor. In the past, she has worked with authors Bobby Hutchinson, Roberta Gellis and Lori Foster.

Yesterday Hachette Book Group USA announced two promotions at the Little, Brown and Company imprint.

Geoff Shandler has been named vice president and editorial director. Shandler will oversee the expansion in the imprint’s nonfiction program. Some of the authors he has worked with include The Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.

Judy Clain has been named vice president and editor-in-chief. In her new role, Clain will chair the imprint’s editorial board, manage the editorial team, and serve as the lead ambassador to literary agents. Some of the authors she has worked with include Julie & Julia memoir author Julie Powell and Room novelist Emma Donoghue.

Janna Morishima has been named marketing director at the comic book publishing company, Papercutz.

Morishima served as one of the founding editor of Scholastic’s graphic novel division, Graphix. At Graphix, she worked on several successful projects including Jeff Smith‘s Bone series and an adaptation of Ann Martin‘s The Babysitters Club series.

Publisher Terry Nantier had this statement in the release: ”We’re very excited to welcome Janna to our team as Papercutz experiences explosive growth with such licenses as the Smurfs and now Ninjago which has debuted with a 200,000 copy print run. I’ve known her for a few years already and with her combined experience of editing and marketing children’s graphic novels and this, from the very start of this category’s introduction and growth, she will bring an added dimension of knowledge and energy.”