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Eckler vs. Hollywood

The hit Hollywood comedy Knocked Up opened this past weekend to rave reviews and big box office. The movie is about a couple dealing with an unplanned pregnancy, and whatever the film's strengths, no one ... Read More »

June 4, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

ReganBooks gone, but catalogue lives on

By Leigh Anne Williams

Parent company HarperCollins may have shut down ReganBooks late last year, but the defunct imprint has issued a ghostly transmission in the form of its summer 2007 catalogue, which hit the Q&Q home office this ... Read More »

March 1, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Actors play the part of writer

By Cassandra Drudi

The Internet Movie Database, along with a jillion other celeb-gossip-carryin' websites, announced actor Robert Downey Jr.'s plans to pen his memoirs, which will "detail his life story" and will, ostensibly, go over his various battles ... Read More »

July 11, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

This just in: more fraud

By Scott MacDonald

Another recent article from The New York Times maintains that James Frey is not the only popular author who faked a hard life. Times writer Warren St. John may have answered a question vexing literary ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Sweeping up broken Glass

By Leigh Anne Williams

Aida Edemariam was a fact-checker at Harper's magazine in the spring of 1998 when it came out that journalist Stephen Glass had a habit of making up his stories. Glass worked at The New Republic, ... Read More »

May 13, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

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