The Internet's favorite wanton waif and drug user Cat Marnell is writing a book, and apparently that book got picked up by Simon & Schuster. Marnell got a pretty hefty sum for the deal.
When Gawker unveiled their "Fox Mole," an anonymous employee at Fox News who has been posting about the inner workings of Fox News and their bathrooms, our first thought was that this guy is going to get outed, fired, and then pitch a book. So how much can he hope to get?
It pays to be bitter, if you choose the right target, and Greg Smith certainly did with Goldman Sachs.
Today in books and publishing: Publishers are unsure what they can afford to give up to avoid going to court over alleged price collusion, the Clinton White House does not come off well in a former Secret Service agent's new memoir, and the National Book Critics Circle Awards are announced.
Today in publishing and literature: Freedom author deems Twitter 'the ultimate irresponsible medium,' new short fiction from Margaret Atwood confirms life in the not-too-distant-future is still bleak, and one of the mystery genre's great forgotten masters could be getting new life on the big screen.
Today in books: a rare-book thief is sentenced, a look at the decline of the short novel, and Philp K. Dick's estate drops a lawsuit.
Today in books: Booker Prize winner Ben Okri is fighting with a former editor who claims to have rewritten portions of his work, a Brussels court rules Tintin in the Congo is not racist, and the perils of buying Amanda Knox's memoir.
Also: The high costs of publishing literature in translation, Deval Patrick scores another book deal, and James Joyce's 130th birthday is his first with work in the public domain.
Also in literary news: Short stories on Twitter hopefully will save short stories on the radio
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