Peggy Samedi Tell us a little about yourself. My name is Peggy Samedi, and I am a Director of Production at Penguin Random House and President of the New York Book Forum. I work in the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. The group publishes literary and commercial fiction, nonfiction, and Graphics. I am a [...]
Who Decides What You Can Read? September 22- 28 is national Banned Books Week and the theme this year is “Freed Between the Lines.” It is a week when the entire book community—publishers, writers, libraries, booksellers, and all of us at New York Book Forum—come together to champion the freedom to read what we [...]
Care for the Homeless provides healthcare to people experiencing homelessness across the city. With the start of the new school year, CFH held a back-to-school vaccine event at one of their family healthcare centers. Thanks to generous donations of children’s books from several publishers, including Astra and Penguin Random House, these children [...]
Alison Gervais Tell us a little about yourself. My name is Alison Gervais and I am the Director of Production at Abrams Books. I oversee our Adult and Kids divisions as well as some imprints under the Abrams Comic Arts division. I moved to the Bronx just a few years ago after 25 [...]
Tell us a little about yourself I'm Brigid Black, Senior Production Manager at Simon & Schuster and Vice President of the New York Book Forum. I'm originally from Brooklyn. My family uprooted to southern Maine in 2020 when remote work became a reality. I've been working from home ever since. My non-book related [...]
By Tyler Carey For the past few years, getting together at the end of the year to celebrate as we typically did pre-pandemic was challenging for a lot of folks for obvious reasons. Even last year, as I attempted to put together a small focus group meeting in mid-December for one of the markets we [...]
