The NYT interviewed Little, Brown president and publisher Sally Kim about her first year running the division. Kim says she has hired 24 new people “which is reflected in every different department including art, marketing, publicity and editorial.” (She had laid off seven people early in her tenure, including several longstanding editors, and then Algonquin was put under the Little, Brown umbrella, resulting in more departures.) Other changes include cancelling the imprint’s big standing acquisition meeting, and restructuring meetings “so everybody gets a turn to speak” and “buying more books as paperbacks to make them more affordable to readers.” The …