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Publishing’s Secret Vice

Gossip is the real currency of the publishing business and, for that reason, the prime source of capital for agents.  Why do you think we have so many lunches?  Certainly not for the good of our waistlines!  But herein lies a problem: the agent with a loose tongue comes quickly to be distrusted by all and sundry.  So a wise agent will hear all, see all, yet divulge nothing.
One cheery exception is the continuing and increasingly visible soap opera arising from the dismissal of Judith Regan from her eponymous imprint.  For all her faults, Judith was a colourful, passionate and highly successful publisher.  Having retained the legendary Bert Fields as her attorney, we can expect much public bloodletting in the weeks ahead.   Vanessa Grigoriadis writing in this week’s New York magazine gives a juicy appetiser…

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