Judith Regan, the book publisher who was fired from HarperCollins last December amid controversy over her acquisition of O.J. Simpson’s If I Did It, was scheduled to file a libel and breach of contract lawsuit today against HarperCollins, its CEO Jane Friedman, and its parent company News Corporation, according to Ms. Regan’s lawyer Bertram Fields. Read More
Before Tina Brown makes her next career move, she must first settle her contract with her defunct Talk magazine. Though Ms. Brown has publicly declared an interest in working for Talk Miramax Books, the company’s publishing arm, sources say that Ms. Brown and Harvey Weinstein, the co-chairman of Miramax Films, are currently trying to figure Read More
Is there room on the shelf for yet another New Yorker memoir? John Seabrook hopes so. A New Yorker staff writer, Mr. Seabrook is nearly finished writing the first New Yorker book that will directly take on the Tina Brown years (1992 to 1998). The publisher is Alfred A. Knopf and the title is No Read More
