Pamela Paul, the editor of The New York Times Book Review, has signed a deal for her memoir. Henry Holt & Company executive editor Paul Golob negotiated the terms of the agreement with literary agent Lydia Wills.
The release date for My Life with Bob has been set for Fall 2017. Paul’s annotated journal, the “Book of Books” or “Bob” for short, was the subject of a widely-read essay. The New York Times published this piece back in April 2012.
Here’s more from the press release: “My Life with Bob serves as a codex of sorts for Paul’s comings and goings and rites of passage since the summer she began keeping a journal at age seventeen in rural France. Finding it impossible to maintain the typical teenage diary, she instead switched to recording the books she was reading and began filling in the margins with the texture of daily life as over time she poured through Moby-Dick during a lonely holiday on Ko Phi Phi, A Distant Mirror while in northern France, and Ethan Frome and The Secret History while hiking in western China. The journal also reflected the milestones of her life.”