Some dramatic developments in the Amazon-Macmillan story yesterday — in particular, another public letter appeared from Macmillan head John Sargent, still standing starkly alone despite some encouraging words Wednesday from… Read more »
To: Macmillan Authors and Illustrators cc: Literary Agents From: John Sargent I am sorry I have been silent since Saturday. We have been in constant discussions with Amazon since then.… Read more »
So she’s the most powerful literary agent in the history of mankind. So she’s legendary, feared, reviled, loved — even more than the jackal, Andrew Wylie. So she “made” Raymond… Read more »
A day after the barely-unemployed Condoleezza Rice hotfooted it up to Manhattan to sign a deal with the William Morris agency (see yesterday’s MobyLives report), it seems Sarah “Hey Remember… Read more »
Twenty-four hours after her term of office ended — or have negotiations been going on on the taxpayer’s dime? — Condoleezza Rice has signed a deal with the William Morris… 2 / Read more »
Those who decry the waning influence of literature upon public discourse should take heart from the way Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel about Laura Bush, American Wife, seems to have prompted —… Read more »
At PW news editor Rachel Deahl is reporting that the most important writer on the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt list, Philip Roth, is not leaving the company — yet. Deahl says… Read more »
Well, you may have thought Sarah Palin ran a revealing campaign for herself, and that as a result the American public — with its scorn and ridicule and, er, tens… Read more »
Self-described publishing “visionary” and, er, agent Richard Curtis has not just a blog but, as he calls it, a “special blog,” and on today’s special entry he discusses the announcement… Read more »
In a move that caught the book industry by surprise, Laurence J. Kirshbaum, “the popular head of the Time Warner Book Group, announced Monday that he is stepping down.” The… Read more »