Two stories from New York have been optioned through the recent arrangement signed between the ICM agency and the magazine. ICM already represented The New York Times in Hollywood when it added New York as a client in June to better facilitate the transition from non-fiction article to screenplay (and to ensure magazine gets a Read More
The Penguin Press, which has been one pair of hands short since Vanessa Mobley’s departure at the end of January, has hired Nick Trautwein of Bloomsbury to edit nonfiction.
Mr. Trautwein, who came to publishing from magazines, has been at Bloomsbury since 2006; while there, he edited such titles as Edmund White’s A Read More
Nearly a month of suspense at 10 East 53rd Street came to a close yesterday when HarperCollins house joker David Hirshey was informed that Sarah Silverman had chosen him over two of his colleagues to be the editor of her as-yet-untitled book of essays.
Settling on a home for Ms. Silverman’s book has been Read More
The Miramax movie Once In a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos opens tomorrow. I found it enthralling and farcical. It deals with a great failed effort, to get soccer going in the United States, back in the 70s, when Warner boss Steve Ross brought Beckenbauer, Chinaglia and—yes—Pele to New Read More
Publishing doesn’t exactly abound with happy stories these days. But over at HarperCollins, executive editor David Hirshey has been feeling pretty good. Especially on Wednesdays, the day HarperCollins-like most other publishers in town-receives the New York Times best-seller list that will appear in the paper 10 days later. For nine straight weeks, Mr. Hirshey has Read More
Vanity publishing update: John F. Kennedy’s George and David Lauren’s Swing both are on the far side of two years old, and they still don’t have their audits. But-by law-they do have to file year-end documentation with the United States Postal Service, and curious observers can glean some interesting factoids about how both magazines are Read More
