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Breaking: Richard Abate Leaving ICM for New 'Endeavor'?
We hear that near-universally reviled ICM mega-agent Richard Abate is leaving that agency in order to set up his own shop, which we hear will be called Endeavor. (Abate is perhaps best known to Gawker readers as the former mentor — okay, bossman — of agent to the blogsuperstars Kate Lee.) "Endeavor" strikes us as an odd choice of nomenclature, since there's already an Endeavor agency — albeit an LA-based one that doesn't solely represent literary clients. In fact, ICM was recently rumored to be buying that Endeavor, which probably has nothing to do with this. Anyway, weird.Related (tangentially, maybe): The Agent Dance: ICM Denies Endeavor Rumor [Defamer]
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Book Deals: Fishbowler, Flash Mobber
Last night's Publishers Lunch weekly roundup brought news of yet another prominent blogger's book deal: More »
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Something's Coming, Something Good: Sklar Sells Jew Book
With this apparently being Jew day on Gawker — and how, we wonder, is that different from all other nights? — it's a perfect time to mention this squib from Publisher's Marketplace today: More »
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When Literary Agents Attack
Poor Kate Lee. By all rights, he should have been hers. When David Lat, the male federal prosecutor who'd masqueraded as a female corporate lawyer on Underneath Their Robes, a deliciously gossipy blog about the federal judiciary, allowed himself to be outed as the blog's author in last Monday's New Yorker Talk of the Town, it seemed obligatory that a book deal would soon be in the offing. And who better to rep him than Talk of the Town-certified agent-to-the-blogstars Kate Lee? More »
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Mazel Tov, Bloggy Agent Kate Lee!
Bar Mitzvah Disco, the between-hard-covers celebration of Jewish coming-of-age campiness that overtook America's affluent suburbs in, according to the book, mostly the 1970s and 1980s, hit bookstores last week. While we continue to find the book vaguely disconcerting when it's used to sell hipster t-shirts to the goyim, we also find it charmingly amusing when it's sitting on our Semitic coffee table. And so we spent a good chunk of Sunday afternoon poring over it, during which we learned several things. More »
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