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May 2, 2025
In a lengthy investigation, The Harvard Crimson spoke to 14 Harvard University Press employees about director George Andreou’s leadership, which staff describes as dysfunctional. They write that Andreou “belittled HUP employees to their peers, instilled a fear of retaliation and layoffs, and mismanaged the publishing house.” Since his hiring in 2017, 50 employees have departed and the press has seen a significant drop in frontlist revenue, even after other university presses rebounded post-Covid. “Between 2020 and 2022,” writes the Crimson, “staff wrote at least five letters raising concerns about Andreou’s leadership to then-Harvard Provost Alan M. Garber… and filed several …
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Lenore Nash's SHE FELL AWAY, the first in a series starring a female sleuth and diplomat as she's drawn into the tangled disappearance of an 18 year-old singer-songwriter in New Zealand and her connection to a dead NFL player, where she must confront her own cultish Alaskan past to interpret the clues the missing girl left behind, to Emily Bestler at Emily Bestler Books, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, by Alexandra Machinist at CAA (US). Translation: sarah.harvey@caa.com Film/TV: Josie.freedman@caa.com
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