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By Emily Witt 11/08/11 6:35pm

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Anthony Bourdain Cooks the Books: He's Starting an Imprint, in Short Order

Anthony Bourdain knows how he can come off. The chef-turned-TV personality has written that it would be “entirely fair and appropriate” were he described as “a loud, egotistical, one-note asshole who’s been cruising on the reputation of one obnoxious, over-testosteroned book for way too long and who should just shut the fuck up.” But it takes only one meeting with Mr. Bourdain—the man who likes to pepper his prose with words like “fucktard” and who made “bad boy chef” a resplendent cliché—to reveal that he is a perfect gentleman.

Get his friends to start talking about him and it becomes very clear that if Mr. Bourdain wants to preserve his louche reputation, he should probably engineer another appearance on TMZ, “running buck-naked down some Milwaukee street with a helmet made from the stretched skin of a butchered terrier pulled down over my ears” (as he once envisioned it).

Instead, Mr. Bourdain—who has long suppressed his inner nerd—has recently been tapped to start an eponymous line of books at the HarperCollins imprint Ecco. Read More

By Emily Witt 10/10/11 4:17pm

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Dennis Lehane to ‘Curate’ Eponymous Line of Books for HarperCollins

Dennis Lehane is the latest HarperCollins writer who will be producing an eponymous line of books for the publisher.  The announcement today comes shortly after the news that Anthony Bourdain would be lending his name to a line of carefully selected food books for Ecco. Mr. Lehane, the author of Mystic River, “will help identify and acquire literary fiction with a dark urban edge,” according to a press release. Read More

By Emily Witt 9/12/11 1:58pm

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Anthony Bourdain the Latest to Join Ranks of New York's Celebrity Book Editors

Bad boy chef, author of Kitchen Confidential and the host of the food television show “No Reservations,” Anthony Bourdain has a new feather in his chef’s hat: book editor at Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins. Mr. Bourdain will join the growing ranks of New York publishing’s celebrity editor/consultants, which include everyone from former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham to former Bush White House spokeswoman Dana Perino. Read More

By Emily Witt 4/27/11 10:30pm

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Deepak Chopra Gets His Own Imprint

Self-help mogul Deepak Chopra will join the growing ranks of celebrities hired to draw from their “broad network of contacts” to “initiate, recommend and submit” books for publication at divisions of Random House. Unlike Dana Perino or Ruth Reichl, Dr. Chopra will have his own eponymous imprint at Crown, Deepak Chopra Books. According Read More

By Emily Witt 10:23pm

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Publishing’s New Jackie O.’s

In 1975, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, widowed for the second time, was confronting the long and desolate road of leisure that unfurled bleakly before her. She decided to dabble in work. According to a recently published history, Jackie as Editor, by Greg Lawrence, a friend in the publishing business told her she might be able to Read More

By Zeke Turner 4/29/10 8:00pm

Editors At Large

Question Time with David Remnick

David Remnick walked up to the stage, slipped on his glasses, and smiled. It was Wednesday night, and a mostly older crowd had gathered at the Barnes & Noble in Union Square to ask Mr. Remnick questions about his new book, The Bridge.

Mr. Remnick opened with a joke about how little editorial experience he Read More