By Emily Witt 12/30/11 12:01pm

What's in a Name

Andrew Wylie is not the namesake of Andrew Wylie.

Andrew Wylie Character on The Good Wife of No Relation to That Other Andrew Wylie

On the CBS show The Good Wife there is a character named Andrew Wylie. Played by the actor Tim Guinee, the character is a private investigator hired by the state attorney’s office to cause some drama by casually revealing past love affairs to all the wrong people and reviving dormant scandals. An inciter of barely suppressed gasps and sobs. But could it really be just a coincidence that he shares a name with a certain literary agent? Read More

By Emily Witt 7/27/11 8:45am

Used Books

Hastings.

Michael Hastings’ Book on Afghanistan Canceled

The New York Post is reporting that Little, Brown has canceled Michael Hastings’ still-untitled book, described in Publishers Marketplace as “‘an unprecedented behind-the-scenes account of America’s longest war,’ with an unfiltered look at the war, and the soldiers, diplomats and politicians who are waging it.”

Little, Brown signed it up after Mr. Hastings’ 2010 Read More

By Emily Witt 7/26/11 7:17pm

Publishing

10 east 53rd

Harper and a Row

Last week, New York’s most notorious literary agent, Andrew Wylie, almost certainly by design—and certainly not for the first time—caused a fuss. Being interviewed on a BBC Radio 4 news show on July 18, Mr. Wylie invited a comparison that nobody had yet bothered to make, likely because it seemed ludicrous to compare the mundane Read More

By Emily Witt 7/18/11 12:18pm

Disputes

Wylie.

Andrew Wylie Has Advice For Rupert Murdoch

Speaking earlier today on BBC Radio 4, Andrew Wylie, the literary agent, expressed his thoughts on HarperCollins, the publishing house owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.

According to The Bookseller, a British industry publication, Wylie said he had personally told Mr. Murdoch that HarperCollins should be “looked after a little more closely,” and added Read More