Last night, several Riverheads took the stage at the One Story Debutante Ball, which celebrates emerging writers. See Claire Vaye Watkins being escorted to the stage, then featured with her book, Battleborn. Dan Chaon walks with Emma Straub, author of Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, and Editor Megan Lynch with Manuel Gonzales, author of The Miniature Wife.
“In the acknowledgments to your book, you call Riverhead’s Geoffrey Kloske an “excellent and, yes, feminist publisher.” What did you mean by that?
VIDA had done a series about the number of women writers published at the various companies, and Riverhead came out very well. And it’s not just that. Looking at what they’ve published over the years, he publishes important work by excellent women and really supports it. He cares.”
From Meg Wolitzer’s Atlantic Wire interview, to read the whole interview, click here.
Rebecca Schinsky @rebeccaschinsky at BookRiot says Sarah Waters’ FINGERSMITH is the best book she read in April, describing how “Waters unravels the plot with gorgeous writing and masterful shifts in narrative voice.”
