Netflix to publish its own branded journal
At first glance, the next step in Netflix’s seemingly unstoppable march—now boasting 150 million users; and 700 programs released last year alone—looks like a step backward: the online streaming service is… Read more »
What’s in a name? If the name is “Weinstein,” a whole lot of fleeing revenue
In a development surprising literally none people, Weinstein Books is officially shitcanned. Hachette Book Group announced in a statement last week that Harvey and Bob Weinstein’s eponymous imprint was terminated… Read more »
Sean Spicer and Margaret Atwood at the Emmys
Television is a pretty big deal in America. Lots of people watch it. Lots of people get paid too much money to write about it. Some people imagine political figures… Read more »
What the world really needs is Tinder for publishing
“Publishing’s Hot App: A Tinder for Intellectual Property” is a headline that might inspire anxiety in just about anyone. It’s difficult to imagine a response that isn’t Oh, god. For the Hollywood… Read more »
Maxwell’s Silver Screen: The editor in film
If you’re, let’s say, a star quarterback, or a teacher in an underprivileged school, maybe a drug dealer, a superhero, or any number of other occupations, I bet that you’ve… Read more »
New Fitzgerald poems come to light
Tomorrow, the autograph and memorabilia dealer Nate D. Sanders will be selling at auction a most unusual piece of F. Scott Fitzgerald-iana: two handwritten poems, composed for the first and… Read more »
How not to run a newspaper
The news coming out about the Niagara Falls Reporter continues to get head-bangingly worse. I first ran across its current woes in Roger Ebert’s column in the Chicago Sun-Times in… Read more »
The life and work of Ödön von Horváth
Ödön von Horváth, author of the novels The Eternal Philistine and Youth Without God — the first in print and the second forthcoming from Melville House — died on this… Read more »
Edward Jay Epstein: “The Oscars are What Hollywood Pretends It Does”
On the occasion of a new edition of Edward Jay Epstein’s The Hollywood Economist, Publishers Weekly’s Marc Schultz spoke to Epstein on the state of the industry. What major… 1 / Read more »