An Interview With Editor Daniel Menaker
by Carolyn Hughes
Daniel Menaker's career moves are well known in publishing circles. After twenty six years at The New Yorker-he started as a fact checker and copy editor before serving as senior editor for twenty years-Menaker moved to the position of literary editor at Random House, where he worked for the past six years. Last month, he announced that he was joining HarperCollins Publishers as executive editor of the HarperCollins imprint. Menaker will report directly to Susan Weinberg, senior vice president and editorial director of HarperCollins, Perennial, and Quill.
Daniel Menaker Steps Down as Random House Top Editor
by Staff
Random House Publishing Group announced today that Daniel Menaker will step down as executive editor in chief at the end of this month. Hired four years ago—after a sixteen-month stint as an executive editor at HarperCollins—for his literary sensibilities and publishing acumen, Menaker says the decision to leave was mutual.
TAGS:
Home » Magazine » Daily News » Daniel Menaker to Host Online Book Program
Daniel Menaker to Host Online Book Program
A new online book program, Titlepage, will premiere on the Web site titlepage.tv on March 3, the New York Times reports. The show will present "passionate conversations about books," according to the program's Web site, with each episode featuring a round-table discussion among a group of authors and host Daniel Menaker, the former fiction editor of the New Yorker who stepped down as executive editor in chief of Random House last June.
Novelists Charles Bock, Susan Choi, and Richard Price will appear in the first episode. The second, to be posted on the Web site two weeks after the premier, will be devoted to debut writers: novelists Ceridwen Dovey and Keith Gessen and memoirists Sloane Crosley and Julie Klam.
Titlepage, created by documentary filmmakers Odile Isralson and Lina Matta, was inspired by the popular French literary program Apostrophes and will combine elements of public television's The Charlie Rose Show and the Independent Film Channel's Dinner for Five. "I’m originally from Belgium and I grew up watching Apostrophes," Isralson told Motoko Rich of the New York Times, "I moved to New York in 1983 and always wondered why it didn’t exist."
