June 27, 2005

First order of business for the editor: Teach them how to spell "serious" . . .

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Judith Regan‘s has become famous for the fact that her HarperCollins imprint ReganBooks has had an extraordinary series of bestselling books. But when news broke last year that she had conducted an affair with former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik in an apartment reserved for Ground Zero workers, her fame really skyrocketed. Now, Chuck Taylor and Anna Weinberg report in a Book Standard story that Regan is set to cash in: she’s “signed with Sirius Satellite Radio for a weekly two-hour talk show that will air on Sirius Talk Central.” Sirius president Scott Greenstein says the show, slated to start in October, will be a “no-holds-barred forum for frank conversations and provocative discussions with a variety of personalities, authors, opinion makers, celebrities and others . . . Movies have trailers, television has commercials and now books have Judith Regan on Sirius.”

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.

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