Luke Barr, the grand-nephew of the late food writer M. F. K. Fisher, has sold a book about her and her pals James Beard and Julia Child to Clarkson Potter, the food-centric imprint of Random House’s Crown division.
According to Clarkson editorial director Doris Cooper, the book will tell the story of a milestone winter Read More
There was a time not so long ago when authors never had to worry about handing in their manuscripts on time. Deadlines back then were a formality—something publishers took about as seriously in the course of contractual negotiations as they did the profit-and-loss statements they used to justify their acquisitions. If an author hit their Read More
Remember when Lehman Brothers collapsed and every financial journalist in the world had a book deal about the economic crisis like five minutes later? Well, apparently a few of them were outside smoking or something while that was going on, because there are at least eight people out there right now working on books about Read More
73-year-old poet Margaret Robison, who was controversially depicted as a negligent lunatic by her son Augusten Burroughs in the book Running With Scissors, has signed with Spiegel & Grau to write a memoir in which she’ll tell "her own story her way," according to an announcement posted this morning to the Publishers Marketplace deal-wire. Read More
Roughly two weeks after orchestrating a six figure book deal for one-time girlfriend of J.D. Salinger Joyce Maynard, literary agent David Kuhn is selling a memoir by Margaret Robison, the mother of Augusten Burroughs. Mr. Kuhn actually submitted Ms. Robison’s book earlier this week, but calls to his office today went unreturned so we Read More
Earlier this week the literary agent (and former magazine editor) David Kuhn pulled a funny trick, and submitted a novel to publishers across town without telling them who wrote it. The only clue the agent gave was the novel itself, which, according to people who have read it, is told from the perspective of a Read More
The cover of the July-August issue of Brill’s Content made a good point about the two-year old media magazine: It has become neither–Brill’s nor content.
The cover–the third issue under editor in chief David Kuhn, a former editor at Talk and Vanity Fair –goes to Ilya Anopolsky, 13. The corresponding piece, “The Rise of Read More
David Kuhn, the new editor in chief of Steven Brill’s Brill’s Content magazine and editorial director of Mr. Brill’s Contentville Web site, has given a guarantee, of sorts: He says that both arms of Brill Media Ventures will keep their editorial integrity, despite the fact that Mr. Brill has struck deals recently with such media Read More
Tina Brown’s sidekick, David Kuhn, is set to leave Talk magazine for Planet Content, the e-commerce venture being set up by Steven Brill, the founder and editor of Brill’s Content . Mr. Kuhn had followed Ms. Brown from Vanity Fair to The New Yorker to Talk , where he was vice president and executive editor. Read More
