Latest in Books

Gahan Wilson, whose sometimes macabre cartoons were once a staple of The New Yorker, Playboy and National Lampoon, died Thursday from complications of dementia. He passed in Scottsdale Arizona at age 89, according to his son. Wilson’s staple was black humor. In a 2013 film documentary on his life, Gahan Wilson: Born…

EXCLUSIVE: Parkes+MacDonald has acquired the television rights to two titles – Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows’ New York Times bestselling novel My Lady Jane, and forthcoming thriller novel People Like Her by Ellery Lloyd, for series development. My Lady Jane, one of Publishers Weekly's Best Young Adult…

Hawk Koch has had an interesting life to say the least, one as Howard W. Koch Jr., son of famous producer and industry heavyweight Howard W. Koch (The Odd Couple, Manchurian Candidate),  and another that started with his Bar Mitzvah at age 50 and a new name, Hawk, that liberated him and enabled him for the first time…

EXCLUSIVE With his acclaimed stage play The Lehman Trilogy arriving on Broadway this Spring, playwright Stefano Massini will also be in bookstores shortly thereafter: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, will publish Massini’s The Lehman Trilogy novel in June 2020. Massini first wrote Trilogy as the stage…

FX, Fox 21 TV Studios, along with Color Force’s Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson, won the rights to the Deepti Kapoor India mob saga The Age of Vice. In what seems to be evidence that the rise of streamers, the blurring of lines between films and TV and the fatigue of recycled IP has created a boom market for sticky…

At first blush, I thought that John Ford moment in Roland Emmerich's Midway was surely over-the-top, a parody, like the semi-silly Bruce Lee bit in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. But why interrupt a deadly serious war film with what seemed to be a comic walk-on by a famous movie director, shouting…

Maybe Lin-Manuel Miranda really can do everything. When Broadway’s favorite bookstore — The Drama Book Shop — was evicted from its longtime Theater District home in January, Miranda and some influential pals came to its rescue. But as any New Yorker knows to their bones, the only thing riskier than an audition is…

EXCLUSIVE: In what marks her first major acquisition since leaving Fox 2000 and forming the Sony-based production label 3000 Pictures to make book-friendly films, Elizabeth Gabler won an auction for screen rights to Nothing to See Here, the just published Kevin Wilson novel from Ecco/HarperCollins. Scott Neustadter & M…

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly attempted to recruit UN Ambassador Nikki Haley to undermine President Donald Trump, according to a report by the Washington Post. Kelly and Tillerson told Haley they were trying to “save the country,” according to The Washington Post, citing…

Former Fixer Upper star Joanna Gaines today announced a new cookbook available for preorder, revealing some of its recipes. Magnolia Table Vol. 2 will be out in April 2020. Fans can look forward on such dishes as mushroom-gruyére quiche, chicken-pecan-asparagus casserole, zucchini-squash strata and Magnolia Press…

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that BCDF Pictures has acquired rights to Anthony Ryan's Penguin Random House fantasy book series A Raven’s Shadow, which the label plans to adapt into a TV series. Joseph Muszynski (Peace, Love & Misunderstanding) is adapting the first novel in the series, Blood Song, which has sold more than 1…

EXCLUSIVE: Rob Friedman’s Ascendant Entertainment has joined forces with Patrick Wachsberger of Picture Perfect Federation to acquire the film and TV rights to Rules for Vanishing, the genre-bending YA thriller novel by Kate Alice Marshall. This project reunites the former Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Co-Chairmen…