By Kat Stoeffel 7/03/12 4:45pm

Publishing

Mr. Bowden at Tribeca Film Festival in 2003.

Happy Birthday, America! Mark Bowden Got You a Book About Killing Osama Bin Laden

In a bit of holiday-appropriate news, The Atlantic national correspondent Mark Bowden has sold a book about the death of Osama Bin Laden to Morgan Entrekin at Grove/Atlantic, reports Publishers Marketplace. The book, to be published in October 2012, is “an account of the Bin Laden strike written in Bowden’s signature ‘you are there’ style, going inside the war room as decisions were made and onto the ground as directives were executed.” It’s titled The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden. Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 12/24/08 1:41pm

The Unlikely Fall and Rise of Bloomsbury

There was a moment earlier this year when it looked like all was lost for Bloomsbury USA—when practically every major editor and executive associated with the company had quit or been fired amid budget cuts, and none who remained could claim ownership of the house they were now charged with running. All year, the principals Read More

By Sara Nelson 12:00am

Big Boff at Frankfurt Hof

Every year, New York’s publishing world issues a collective complaint about the zoo-like nature of the fall Frankfurt Book Fair, the feeding frenzy of foreign-rights directors, agents and publishers who come to this dreary German city to do face-to-face what they do by fax and e-mail throughout the year: buy and sell the rights to Read More

By George Gurley 10/16/00 12:00am

She’s in the Band

Singer and bassist Maggie Kim came to New York five years ago to become famous. First she got a job as a fashion writer at Glamour magazine. Then she played in a couple of local rock bands and dated a rock star.

Finally, last June Ms. Kim answered a want ad in the Village Voice Read More