Becky Saletan

It was big news — the first major rumble that would turn into an earthquake the very next day — when publisher Becky Saletan walked from her job at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (rumor has it, because she was ordered to fire, among others, legendary editor Drenka Willen — see the MobyLives reports here, and here). Now, the popular publisher is back in the game: It was announced yesterday that she’ll be working at Penguin imprint Riverhead Books, where she “will focus on acquiring and editing narrative nonfiction, as well as literary fiction,” according to a Publishers Weekly report by Rachel Deahl. There’s no mention of a title for Saletan, who has edited everyone from Phillip Roth to Hillary Clinton, but Riverhead publisher Geoff Kloske says after years of competing with her for literary titles, he’s “happy to finally be working with her.”