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Shopping, showjumping and a notorious goldfish sex scene: the bonkers world of the bonkbuster

In May 2023, Conservative British weekly magazine The Spectator ran a piece revealing the “guilty pleasures” of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Allegedly, he likes listening to the music of Michael Bublé, watching Emily in Paris – and reading the novels of Jilly Cooper.

The Conversation

The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall review – a genre-defying epic

Spanning 1933 to 2181, this ambitious novel explores the future of humanity through the lives of a few women, zeroing in on capitalism, AI and violence

The Guardian - AU

The sale of publisher Simon & Schuster is good news for staff and authors, but the long-term implications are uncertain

A year after the US Department of Justice blocked the merger of two of the world’s biggest publishers, a New York-based private equity investment firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Co., has agreed to buy Simon Schuster.

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Paramount sells Simon & Schuster to private investment firm

Paramount Global has sold Simon & Schuster to the private equity firm KKR. The deal comes nearly a year after the Department of Justice blocked Penguin Random House from acquiring Simon & Schuster.

WEKU

Paramount Makes $1.62 Billion Deal To Sell Simon & Schuster to KKR

Earlier agreement to sell publisher for $2.2 billion was blocked

Broadcasting & Cable

Simon & Schuster purchased by private equity firm KKR for $1.62 billion

Simon & Schuster has been sold to the private equity firm KKR, months after a federal judge blocked its purchase by rival publisher Penguin Random House because of concerns that competition would shrink in the book market

The Independent UK

Paramount Trims Streaming Losses in Q2, Adds 700K Par Plus Customers

Direct-to-consumer revenues spike 40% and stock surges in after-hours trading

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Wall Street Journal UAW Demands Significant Wage Increases For Factory Workers At GM, Ford, And Stellantis

Zenger

‘On my terms’: Britney Spears confirms memoir Woman In Me as front cover and release date revealed

The singer’s battle to end her 13-year conservatorship will be covered in the book as she vows to share ‘her truth’

Evening Standard

Britney Spears: I worked my ass off to get my memoir written

The US pop star said she had had ‘a lot of therapy’ to help get the book done and hoped fans would like it.

The Independent UK

Britney Spears: I had a lot of therapy to help get my memoir written

The Woman In Me by the US pop star will be published in October this year by Gallery Books

Evening Standard

The Jenny Han Effect: How the YA rock star took charge of her own media empire

It was a hot summer day in Cousins. Jenny Han sat inside a beach house, phone in hand, splitting her attention between a million emails and texts, and the torrents of teenage life and love playing out in front of her eyes.

Los Angeles Times

Netflix's The Killer: Release Date, Cast And Other Things We Know About The Graphic Novel Adaptation

With David Fincher behind the camera and Michael Fassbender leading the cast, The Killer could be a big hit for Netflix this fall.

Cinemablend

Republican hopeful Mike Pence to release book on ‘how faith makes family’

Advice book Go Home For Dinner, co-authored with daughter Charlotte Pence Bond, to be published by Simon & Schuster

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Biopic of Lucky Bisht, former Personal Security Officer of PM Modi to be out soon

A biopic on Lucky Bisht, a former NSG Commando and Spy and the former personal security officer of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will be released soon, publishing house Simon Schuster has said. The publisher has Sachin Tendulkar’s biopic to its credit.

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Robert Gottlieb, celebrated editor of Toni Morrison and Robert Caro, has died at 92

Gottlieb, whose work helped shape the modern publishing canon, edited fiction by future Nobel laureates, spy novels by John le Carré, essays by Nora Ephron and Caro's nonfiction epics.

The Independent UK

Robert Gottlieb, celebrated literary editor of Toni Morrison and Robert Caro, dies at 92

One of the greatest literary editors in modern times, Robert Gottlieb, has died

The Independent UK

Richard Snyder, ‘warrior-king’ of publishing who presided over rise of Simon & Schuster, dead at 90

Richard Snyder, a visionary and imperious executive at Simon & Schuster who presided over the publisher’s exponential rise during the second half of the 20th century and helped define an era of growing corporate power, has died

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Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk biography will hit the streets September 12

Writer has spent the last two years working on the profile.

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: What 'Succession' got wrong about what happens when moguls die

Near the very end of Sunday's episode of HBO's hit show "Succession," Roman Roy shows his siblings a stock price chart on his smartphone.

The Guardian - US

The Guardian welcomes Dana Canedy as managing editor of Guardian US

The Independent UK

BET co-founder, sports exec Sheila Johnson to publish memoir

The philanthropist, sports franchise executive and co-founder of Black Entertainment Television Sheila Johnson is writing a memoir

Tribune News Service

This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 18, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2023 Circana.

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ACT UP slams new AIDS denialism book

ACT UP NY penned a letter to the publishing company, emphasizing the harm of HIV/AIDS misinformation and denialism

Los Angeles Times

Examination of USC doctor’s earlier books finds more troubling instances of plagiarism

LOS ANGELES — With just days to go before the publication of his already-bestselling title, “The Book of Animal Secrets,” Dr. David Agus said he was surprised to learn that at least 95 passages appeared to be copied from other uncredited sources, sometimes word for word.

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The Latest Breaking News from Simon & ﻿Schuster

The Latest Breaking News from Simon & Schuster