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Smith (l.) "buzzed for a good cause," along with Lois Kim, who succeeded him as literary director of the Texas Book Festival, and novelist Amanda Eyre Ward, this past spring, to raise nearly $80,000 for the Literacy Coalition of Central Texas. |
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Claiborne ("Clay") Smith has been appointed to the newly created position of editor-in-chief of Kirkus Reviews.
"Clay Smith has the passion and experience needed to drive development of the thoughtful content Kirkus is known for providing," said Kirkus Media COO Meg LaBorde Kuehn.
Smith joined Kirkus in November 2012 as features editor, and he will continue those responsibilities. He was previously the literary director of the Texas Book Festival and began his career in journalism at the Austin Chronicle, where he rose to the position of senior editor covering books. He is a graduate of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism graduate program at New York University.