Henry Holt & Company

Webb Younce lost his job at Houghton Mifflin last February along with fellow editors Anton Mueller and Jane Rosenman. Mr. Mueller was the first to land on his feet, joining Bloomsbury USA as an editor the following month. Ms. Rosenman came in second when she started at Algonquin shortly after Labor Day.

Today, it was announced that Mr. Younce—whose unemployment was the cause of much indignation and distress among the more the literary-minded of the city's young editors—will soon join the team at Henry Holt, the division of Macmillan that only recently emerged from a period of relative dormancy. Mr. Younce, who is known as a talented editor of both fiction and non-fiction, is the first person to join Holt since Marjorie Braman came on board as editor-in-chief in August.  read more »

Henry Holt and Company has a new editor-in-chief. According to Publishers Lunch, Marjorie Braman, formerly an executive editor at HarperCollins, will begin September 8th. Earlier this month, The Observer's Leon Neyfakh wondered "Who's Editing Holt?" Soon enough, it will be Ms. Braman.

PL quotes Holt President Dan Farley as saying:

She is one of the leading editors in the industry and her excellent track record at Harper Collins is notable for her publishing of quality and commercial books at the same time that she has excelled as a partner for her authors and as a team player for her colleagues.

In 2005, The Observer's Sheelah Kolhatkar spoke to Ms. Braman about the then-popular trend of anthologized essay books.

Expect more on this from Media Mob and Pub Crawl as Ms. Braman begins her new role at Holt.

With the Olympic Games about to begin in China, Felix Gillette, John Koblin, and Tom Scocca look at the press descending on Beijing and note, "When President Hu Jintao held a press conference with selected foreign journalists on Aug. 1, it was not clear whether getting an invitation to attend had been a mark of honor or disrepute."

"Henry Holt’s flagship imprint has a new editor in chief," writes Pub Crawler Leon Neyfakh. "Who it is we don’t know yet, nor will we for two or three more weeks unless the wrong person hears about it and sings." Plus: McNally Robinson becomes McNally Jackson.

Plus: Penny Crone, Broker?... Subway summer reading... Tanks.

Henry Holt’s flagship imprint has a new editor in chief. Who it is we don’t know yet, nor will we for two or three more weeks unless the wrong person hears about it and sings. Apparently, whoever it is hasn’t quite gotten up the nerve to give notice yet at his or her old job, and Holt’s publisher, Dan Farley, promised to keep it close until the bed was made. That, or Holt’s just running out the clock until after Labor Day, so that colleagues in the publishing industry, many of whom tend to spend the month of August unapologetically summering, actually get the memo.  read more »