'The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants' began as a memoir about Orlando Ortega-Medina's exile from a homophobic U.S. How it became an immigration thriller instead Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-04-18 13:00:23 UTC ]
In one of the biggest antitrust showdowns of President Biden’s tenure, the Justice Department is pulling out the big guns to stop a mega-publishing merger. The Justice Department’s ambitious bid to stop Penguin Random House from buying rival publisher Simon & Schuster has started taking on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2022-07-25 16:10:21 UTC ]
As the age-old advice goes, “Write what you know.” For Hillary Clinton, apparently this means pivoting from writing dense memoirs about “hard choices” and nonfiction books about women’s empowerment to . . . political fan fiction thinly disguised as a legal thriller? Simon & Schuster has... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-02-23 16:42:52 UTC ]
The novel revisits Sandy Stern, a character Turow first introduced in his debut, 1987’s “Presumed Innocent.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-05-12 15:18:02 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton is publishing a new "highly topical" legal thriller from John Grisham this October, The Rooster Bar, inspired by the student debt crisis. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The American Bar Association's publishing division is launching a trade imprint. Ankerwycke has just released its debut title, a legal thriller by blogger David Lat, to be followed by 34 titles in 2015. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Wedding Crashers helmer signs on for long-gestating biopic telling life story of Playboy magazine founder• Peter Morgan in talks to develop Hugh Hefner biopicPlayboy founder Hugh Hefner is to have his life story told in a biopic to be directed by Wedding Crashers' David Dobkin, it has been... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]