By Drew Grant 1/18 2:38pm

Andy Cohen

Andy Cohen, newly-minted author (Getty Images)

Lunching with Pop Culture’s Most Talkative Author Andy Cohen

Over the course of an intimate, two hour lunch with Andy Cohen at the Palm West  End Steakhouse, the Bravo celebrity and producer (not to mention celebrity producer) added a new notch in his grey, dapper Hugo Boss suit. Mr. Cohen, whose talk show Watch What Happens Live just moved into its five night a week spot–”You should come tomorrow, we’re having a Ralph Fiennes Pajama Party…with Ralph Fiennes!” he had gushed over a meal of Atlantic salmon and Southwest steak salad–was now officially an author, giving us his first reading of his upcoming memoir Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture. Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 11/25/08 8:41pm

Publishing Bigshots Told to Open Canned Tuna, Eat at Desk

Though prayers this week should undoubtedly be with the editors of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, who were told a few days ago by their CEO that they can no longer afford to acquire new books, it should not go unremarked that editors at other houses are being forced to give up something almost as essential: lunch! Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 2/07/08 5:06pm

John Sterling Out as Publisher and President of Henry Holt

John Sterling will leave his position as president and publisher of Henry Holt to become an executive vice president at Holt’s parent company Macmillan, it will be announced later today. In his new job, according to a release that will be issued later today, Mr. Sterling will acquire and edit books for Holt and other Read More

By Michael Calderone 3/21/05 12:00am

Von Holtzbrinck Seizes Flatiron-Most of Building

When the German conglomerate Bertelsmann swept all 100-plus imprints of its publishing division, Random House, into one corporate mothership in late 2002, bookworms were marched from all over town and installed in cubicles in a gleaming new skyscraper with a lobby lined with books and a corporate logo outside announcing the company’s one-big-happy-family status.

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By Adam Begley 12/08/03 12:00am

Trapped in a Novelist’s Mind-A Dreary, Airless Experience

Oracle Night , by Paul Auster. Henry Holt, 243 pages, $23.

Remember the moment early on in The Great Gatsby when Daisy tells Nick how cynical she’s become? “Sophisticated,” she says, “God, I’m sophisticated!” Nick doesn’t buy it: “The instant her voice broke off, ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt Read More