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 Read More
Earlier this week we carried a report from the U.K. press that said Aravind Adiga, author of White Tiger and recent winner of the Man Booker Prize, had abruptly abandoned his relationship with the William Morris Agency. The implication was that the boy had gotten too big for his britches, what with his Read More
Guardian gossip Tim Walker reported over the weekend that Aravind Adiga, whose debut novel The White Tiger won the Man Booker Prize earlier this month, has abruptly parted ways with the literary agent who got him his £50,000 book deal. Cathryn Summerhayes, of William Morris’s UK office, told The Guardian that Read More
Last night at the Palm restaurant on West 50th Street, the actor Dylan Baker was talking about how glad he was to be working in New York. But it’s not Los Angeles that snatches him away.
“The problem is, you’re always looking for that pay-job and often that’s in television or film," said the 48-year-old Read More
