Former book packager at Herter Studio and publishing director at Chronicle Books Caroline Ames Herter, 70, died at her home in Bar Harbor, ME on June 12. Herter’s publishing career began as one of the original booksellers at Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver, and she went on to work in sales, marketing, and publishing roles at Harper & Row, Charles Scribner, Simon & Schuster, and Chronicle, where she was instrumental in developing the gift product line that redefined how non-book products were marketed and sold in the bookselling community and how book products were sold in the gift market. Her […]
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David Walliams Gives Nazi Salute at TV Recording
Bestselling British children’s author and actor David Walliams did a Nazi salute twice at a taping of a Christmas comedy special, the Times reports. During a taping of Would I Lie To You?, a panel member shared an anecdote about spraining her wrist from waving. Walliams “joined in with increasingly vigorous waves, culminating in him holding his arm out in a Nazi salute.” The host of the show “reprimanded” Walliams, but he made the gesture again, “embellishing it with a sexual twist.” The BBC and the show’s production company, Zeppotron, said that the footage will never air. “Any attempt at […]