A few months before the publication of Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, Little, Brown publisher Michael Pietsch was distressed to learn that the book’s author, literary agent Bill Clegg, had never properly apologized to the business partner he abandoned while in the throes of his crack habit. That business partner, Sarah Burnes, Read More
William Morris Endeavor co-head Jennifer Rudolph Walsh is out with a book proposal from actress Portia de Rossi, who played Nelle Porter on Ally McBeal and later Lindsay Bluth on Arrested Development and is famously married to Ellen DeGeneres.
Several sources said the writing sample that Ms. Walsh sent out to editors is partly concerned Read More
Richard Abate’s Endeavor team is breaking up, as the Hollywood talent agency it has serviced in all things literary since the spring of 2007 prepares to merge with the William Morris Agency.
Mr. Abate was left to plan his next act when the merger was finalized at the end of April and it Read More
Just over two years after leaving his job as an agent at ICM to open a New York–based literary department for the Hollywood talent agency Endeavor, Richard Abate has found himself having to plan the next phase of his career.
Mr. Abate, who is in his early 40s, oversaw a number of seven-figure book Read More
“Mort and I are far from retiring,” Lynn Nesbit said on Friday afternoon. “It isn’t a question on the table at the moment. It really isn’t.”
The night before, one of the stars at the boutique literary agency Ms. Nesbit runs with Mort Janklow abruptly announced that he was leaving for Read More
The company behind Harvard author Kaavya Viswanathan and her now-cancelled book, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life, is a young-adult media giant called Alloy Entertainment, whose unconventional way of doing business has left some authors in the Y.A. world with mixed feelings about the company.
The convoluted authorial structure of Read More
