Lott, Hart, Another Assistant, and More Over 20 new deal reports in the last day include Trent Lott finalizing his memoir deal, plus a sale for a National Book Award finalist, another “assistant novel” (this one about Hollywood), a big UK sale for Lauren Weisberger, Carolyn Hart’s latest, two new ones from Elizabeth Kolbert, a…
Lunch for Tuesday, September 9
More New Deals Among the many new ones you wouldn’t find in last night’s fat Lunch Weekly are good sales for two thriller authors (one originally self-published), NBA finalist Atul Gawande’s ambitious new project, an Iowa grad’s debut novel, and still plenty more — with new ones reported live all day, and just under 6,000…
Lunch for Monday, September 8
The Latest Deals 20 new deals since Friday morning include a Beatles “insider” sharing his stories (and Paul McCartney provides the foreword), plus Harvard Medical School’s consumer line, the true story of a woman who became an acclaimed painter after going blind, Fox reporter Major Garrett’s reevaluation of the Republican takeover of Congress in 1995,…
Lunch for Friday, September 5
The Latest Deals Among the more than a dozen new deals since yesterday there’s a posthumous autobiography of Celia Cruz, Jonathan Rauch’s latest, and a soap star’s first novel, plus of course plenty more — about 45 for the week so far, and just under 6,000 in all in our unparalleled archive of deals. Plus…
Lunch for Thursday, September 4
Finishing a Busy Week Once again a lot of new reports, including a book about Beckham and his new team Real Madrid, Sean Astin’s memoir of filming the Lord of the Rings, publisher Beau Friedlander’s first novel, the Bobby Darin story, a Warhol colleagues’ interviews with friends, Claire Tomalin’s latest, and still plenty more —…
Lunch for Wednesday, September 3
Back to Work Deals: Heinlein, Lithgow, and More A burst of over 15 new deals includes a good deal for a newly discovered “lost novel” by Robert Heinlein, a hundred things to love and hate about TV, an homage to the 60s spy thrillers, a concert oboist’s look inside orchestra life (and analysis of the…