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Clarkson’s Farm producer Expectation is adapting for TV comedian Pope Lonergan’s memoir about a decade spent caring for the elderly. In I’ll Die After Bingo, the award-winning author provided a no-holds barred account, whether initiating a coup d’état against new regulations with the residents or…

Blink49 Studios has partnered with Khaled Hosseini’s literary agency Transatlantic, its second major deal with a management company of the past year. Under the pact, Blink49 will be handed access to Transatlantic’s author and IP roster to produce original projects, while being given a first-look on…

Dolly Parton is reversing the sentiment of her hit song “9 to 5.” In California, it’s all giving and no taking. California is kicking off a statewide expansion of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library to all 58 counties. The program provides universal access to free books in the mail every month…

EXCLUSIVE: Bestselling author Ruth Ware's latest novel, Zero Days, has been optioned by Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group. According to sources, UIS landed the book in a bidding, with 10 parties — both U.S. and UK — pursuing the title, which will be published June 20 by…

Endeavor-owned WME has acquired the Ross Yoon Agency, a Washington, D.C.-based literary firm. As part of the transaction, Ross Yoon's President Gail Ross and Principal Howard Yoon will join WME as partners. The move bulks up WME’s book business, adding a roster of literary and commercial non-fiction…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s the steamy novel written by Boris Johnson’s former adviser that’s been the talk of Westminster. Now Whips is getting the TV treatment thanks to Andy Serkis. The Planet of the Apes star’s production company Imaginarium Productions has won the rights to adapt Cleo Watson’s Whips…

A new book by Maureen Ryan that seeks to expose “patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood” takes aim at the writers room of Lost, where executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse are accused of maintaining a culture of toxicity on the hit ABC drama. In an excerpt from Burn It Down, Powe…

What do writers do when they can't write? It's an exasperating question, since some write anyway – even in risky ways. The risky activities of one strike-bound writer deserve note because he's a "ghost" who is breaking a prime rule of his "ghosting" fraternity: He's openly talking about the secrets…

Martin Amis, whose 15 novels were must-read books for British fiction lovers, died Friday at home in Lake Worth, Florida of esophageal cancer, his wife confirmed. He was 73. Amis’s best-known work is a trilogy of novels: Money: A Suicide Note (1985), London Fields (1990) and The Information…

The story of the horrific Idaho student murders is in the works for the page and the small screen. Bestselling author James Patterson and award-winning journalist Vicky Ward are teaming on a nonfiction book about the 2022 murders of the four University of Idaho students. Additionally, Skydance Television…

Colin Jost opened the PEN America Gala under the iconic model of a blue whale at the Museum of Natural History calling himself "a writer and a friend of writers" and "extremely fortunate to be here tonight surrounded by two things that might not be around much longer — writers and ocean life. This is the…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-shortlisted Panamanian filmmaker Abner Benaim (Plaza Catedral) is gearing up to direct a feature adaptation of Nemesis, the final bestseller by Philip Roth to be published prior to the famed author’s 2018 passing. Related Story Jason Reitman To Direct Movie Based On Behin…