By Kim Velsey 8/29/12 3:09pm

Manhattan Transfers

Moving on. Always moving on.

Forget It, Judith Regan—It’s Chinatown: Editor Walks Away From Downtown Loft

Famed editor Judith Regan decamped for Los Angeles years ago, but enjoyed keeping one foot in the city where her meteoric rise to fame happened. So she bought a sprawling 3,200-square-foot loft in Chinatown (or Soho, depending on whom you ask) back in 2005. But as she told a Daily Beast reporter in 2010, her affection faded after the apartment flooded. Twice. The water ruined almost all of her art and furniture: “My apartment is like all the men in my life—really good-looking and assholes.” Read More

By Emily Witt 7/26/11 7:17pm

Publishing

10 east 53rd

Harper and a Row

Last week, New York’s most notorious literary agent, Andrew Wylie, almost certainly by design—and certainly not for the first time—caused a fuss. Being interviewed on a BBC Radio 4 news show on July 18, Mr. Wylie invited a comparison that nobody had yet bothered to make, likely because it seemed ludicrous to compare the mundane Read More

By Molly Fischer 5/05/10 9:30pm

Publishing: A ‘Pink-Collar Ghetto’?

Jason Pinter (“Bestselling Thriller Writer”) thinks that there’s a dearth of books for dudes because women dominate publishing.

In an essay from late April, Pinter describes how (during his days in publishing) he attempted to acquire a book by professional wrestler Chris Jericho. His efforts almost failed for lack of men in Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 1/06/09 8:54pm

Baker Blitzes Bush Fam for Bloomsbury, Has Big Bash!

Investigative journalist Russ Baker, who has written an explosive new volume on the Bush dynasty called Family of Secrets, did not need to convince anyone at his book party at SoHo House on Monday night that he wasn’t a crazy conspiracy nut. Dressed in a suit and tie and standing before a microphone at the Read More