Execs at Cengage, HMH Cut; Denis Johnson, Remembered

[PW Daily: Breaking book business, bookselling and author news, bestsellers lists and publishing deals.] [BookExpo's Librarians' Lounge 2017]( [Educational Publishing Execs at HMH, Cengage Leaving]( As educational publishers continue to deal with dramatic changes in the college and school markets, two high-placed executives at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Cengage will leave their roles later this year. [more »]( [Denis Johnson, 'Writer's Writer's Writer,' Dead at 67]( The award-winning fiction writer, poet, and playwright, whose best-known and most influential work, the story collection 'Jesus' Son,' turned 25 this year, has died. [more »]( [Knopf to Publish Children's Book by Khizr Khan]( Khizr Khan, the Pakistani-American Gold Star father who delivered a stirring speech during last July's Democratic National Convention, has written a middle-grade nonfiction book called 'This Is Our Constitution,' due out on November 14. [more »]( [The MBF/de Groot Prize]( For more about these and other great jobs, visit the new [PW JobZone]( now with resume hosting and more! - [Designer - Rodale - New York](. - [Senior Editor - Rodale - New York](. - [Customer Service Representative - Guilford Publications - New York](. - [Managing Editor - Macmillan - New York](. - [Production Editor - University of Massachusetts Press - Amherst](. [BookCon 2017 Registration]( JOB MOVES Dave Upchurch has retired as senior v-p and group controller at Simon & Schuster after 27 years with the company. Deepak Daswani is joining Simon & Schuster as v-p and group controller, effective June 5. Lincoln Michel has left 'Electric Literature.' David Fassett has been promoted to art director at InterVarsity Press. Ariel Cooper has left Henry Holt and can be contacted at ariellcooper@gmail.com. Jessica Craig has been named foreign rights agent for Diversion Books. Samuel Caggiula has been named U.S. group publicity director at Casemate. Leslie Bermel, formerly at the Junior Library Guild of Plain City, Ohio, has been named title acquisitions and library services manager at Perma-Bound. [VIEW ALL »]( [Title Revealed for Volume One of Pullman’s ‘The Book of Dust’]( Knopf has revealed the title of the first volume in Philip Pullman’s highly anticipated new trilogy, The Book of Dust, along with an excerpt. [more » »]( [Arcadia and History Press Acquire Palmetto, Launch Vertel]( Arcadia Publishing and The History Press, publishers of books on local and regional history and interests, have acquired Palmetto Publishing Group and launched a new "hybrid" imprint, Vertel. [more » »]( [Tune In to PW Radio]( Leslie Buck discusses her memoir 'Cutting Back: My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of Kyoto,' and PW senior writer Andrew Albanese updates us on the government's proposed NEA, NEH, and IMLS cuts. [more » »]( News Briefs [BookExpo, BookCon to Stream Interviews Via Facebook Live]( A full slate of interactive interviews on Facebook will include chats with Margaret Atwood, Dan Brown, and Veronica Roth. [more » »]( [Random House Announces Changes to Marketing Operations]( A new development structure will shift around the marketing department at Random House, according to a letter from executive v-p and director of marketing Sanyu Dillon to staff. [more » »]( THE ROUNDUP [Manson Murders Book Due in 2019]( The book's author, Tom O’Neill, spent 18 years researching (and interviewing) Charles Manson and prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi. [Summer Reads and Novelist-Booksellers]( Six fiction writers who own bookstores, including Emma Straub and Louise Erdrich, recommend books to read this summer. [In Defense of Keeping a Journal]( The personal and literary merit of cataloging one's life makes the difficulty of doing so consistently worth the effort. [10 Great Books of D.C. Intrigue]( Once a swamp, always a swamp—which makes Washington the perfect setting for books about crooks, liars, and spies. [The Pleasures of Literary Pessimism]( Why do we read writers who are profoundly pessimistic? And what sense are we to make of their work? Tim Parks investigates. [VIEW ALL »]( PW Bestsellers [Top 10 Overall Bestseller List]( 'Oh, the Places You'll Go!' by Dr. Seuss is the #1 title on PW's top 10 overall bestseller list. [See the full list » »]( PW Daily Review of the Day ['She Persisted' by Chelsea Clinton and Illustrated by Alexandra Boiger]( "Clinton and Boiger have written a lovely, moving work of children’s literature that might even win over those cynical about celebrity efforts in the feminist space." [more » »]( SHELFTALKER [Crafty Characters in the Bookstore]( Meghan Dietsche Goel Sparkles, and paint, and glue guns, oh my! [more »]( PICTURE OF THE DAY [Reading Aboard the 'Queen Mary']( On May 20 aboard the RMS 'Queen Mary' while she was docked in Long Beach, Calif., readers posed for a photo at an event with author Susan Meissner and 90-year-old WWII war bride June Allen. The event, hosted by Adventures by the Book, was promoting Meissner’s new novel, 'A Bridge Across the Ocean' (Berkley), which was inspired in part by Allen’s account of her experiences on a voyage on the 'Queen Mary' at the end of WWII to be reunited with her American soldier husband. Courtesy Berkley E-mail not displaying correctly? 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