This is the Book Riot Podcast. I'm Rebecca Shinsky. I'm joined this week by Vanessa Diaz, Book

Riot's managing editor. Jeff is out enjoying some quality time with his family. Thank you all for being

back here with us. It's a news and talk show about what's new cool and worth talking

about in the world of books and reading. Vanessa, how are you? I'm happy to be talking to you. So glad you're here. We have a couple quick follow-up items just to mention to folks who maybe have been wondering where people might land, where the industry might be headed.

So we're going to cover that in three minutes and then we'll be done. You know, we're concluding what's happening with publishing.

That's it. It's all done after that. Yeah, that's it.

It's the middle of July. We are finished. So first very quickly it was just

announced this morning. We're recording on Thursday July 11 11th, that Reagan Arthur, who was let go from her

position at Knopf back in May. May? May? Yes, it was. How does time work? She's like go from her position back in May. She's going to be returning

to the Hichet Book Group as a senior VP and publisher in late September. She was at Hichett previously, she even ran the Reagan Arthur

imprint there, so this is a return to a previous publishing home. She will be

running a boutique imprint. It is as-yet unnamed, but she'll be editing major authors across

Hashette's publishing divisions and reporting to David Shelley, who is the

CEO of Hashet Book Group and Hachett UK.

So that is one of the two big questions from May's big layoffs.

Answer to the other, of course, is,

where will Lisa Lucas go next?

I was thinking it would be really fun if Reagan Arthur brought Lisa Lucas along with her or they could team up and do something.

I am sure that both of these women received a lot of phone calls very quickly after it was announced that they had been laid off from PRH, so I wouldn't be surprised if we hear from Lisa Lucas pretty soon, but congratulations and best wishes to Reagan Arthur in this next endeavor.

A publisher with really excellent taste, I'll be very excited to see what she'll do with another swing at her own imprint. I am very

excited as well. And then last week we mentioned Jeff and I talked about a study

that was released that showed that foot traffic is up at Barnes and Noble locations. They are not the only ones.

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