Nan A. Talese, President, Publisher and Editorial Director of her eponymous Doubleday imprint, will retire at the end of the year, bringing an end to one of publishing’s most celebrated careers that also included stints at Random House, Simon & Schuster and Houghton Mifflin.
Since starting her Nan A. Talese imprint at Doubleday in 1990, Talese, who is married to author Gay Talese, has published a list of prominent authors including Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Adam Haslett, Alex Kotlowitz, Pat Conroy, Thomas Keneally, Mia Farrow, Jim Crace, Valerie Martin, Peter Ackroyd, Mary Morris, Louis Begley, Jennifer Egan, Mark Richard, Judy Collins, Barry Unsworth, Antonia Fraser, Thomas Cahill, Janet Wallach, and George Plimpton.
Talese’s successor was not announced.
After beginning her career at Vogue, Talese joined Random House in 1959 as a copy editor, then became the first woman to hold the position of literary editor. In that role, she worked with such writers as A.
Since starting her Nan A. Talese imprint at Doubleday in 1990, Talese, who is married to author Gay Talese, has published a list of prominent authors including Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Adam Haslett, Alex Kotlowitz, Pat Conroy, Thomas Keneally, Mia Farrow, Jim Crace, Valerie Martin, Peter Ackroyd, Mary Morris, Louis Begley, Jennifer Egan, Mark Richard, Judy Collins, Barry Unsworth, Antonia Fraser, Thomas Cahill, Janet Wallach, and George Plimpton.
Talese’s successor was not announced.
After beginning her career at Vogue, Talese joined Random House in 1959 as a copy editor, then became the first woman to hold the position of literary editor. In that role, she worked with such writers as A.
- 7/8/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “A Million Little Pieces,” starring her husband Aaron Taylor-Johnson, has been collecting dust since it bowed at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2018. The film, which will receive a U.S. release on December 6 from Momentum Pictures, has finally received a first trailer.
“A Million Little Pieces” is adapted from the notorious 2003 “memoir” of the same name by author James Frey (played here by Mr. Taylor-Johnson). The book hit controversy at the time when Frey was outed by whistleblowing website The Smoking Gun for having fabricated long stretches of this harrowing autobiography of his crack addiction — most notably in a sequence where a dentist refuses to give Frey anesthesia while extracting his rotten teeth.
After touting the memoir through her popular book club, Oprah Winfrey memorably brought Frey and his Doubleday editor Nan Talese onto her talk show to apologize for deceiving readers. The book’s reputation has since been redeemed,...
“A Million Little Pieces” is adapted from the notorious 2003 “memoir” of the same name by author James Frey (played here by Mr. Taylor-Johnson). The book hit controversy at the time when Frey was outed by whistleblowing website The Smoking Gun for having fabricated long stretches of this harrowing autobiography of his crack addiction — most notably in a sequence where a dentist refuses to give Frey anesthesia while extracting his rotten teeth.
After touting the memoir through her popular book club, Oprah Winfrey memorably brought Frey and his Doubleday editor Nan Talese onto her talk show to apologize for deceiving readers. The book’s reputation has since been redeemed,...
- 8/8/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
A Million Little Pieces is as raw, bloody and messy as James Frey wrote it. With the startling intensity he shocked Toronto with in Nocturnal Animals two years ago, Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays Frey through his evolution from a hopeless, cornered animal descending down a drug-induced death spiral to someone who pulls out of the nosedive after reluctantly embracing help from a group of fellow addicts to create distance from the seduction of crack cocaine and hard liquor ravaging his body.
It’s a dark, scrappy, low-budget affair—necessary to relieve the pressure that led to the implosion of the studio version of this adaptation a decade and a half ago. When A Million Little Pieces was first published, it announced Frey as a major new literary voice—endorsed by Oprah Winfrey herself—and landed him a fast-tracked studio adaptation at Warner Bros. But it all blew up when press stories...
It’s a dark, scrappy, low-budget affair—necessary to relieve the pressure that led to the implosion of the studio version of this adaptation a decade and a half ago. When A Million Little Pieces was first published, it announced Frey as a major new literary voice—endorsed by Oprah Winfrey herself—and landed him a fast-tracked studio adaptation at Warner Bros. But it all blew up when press stories...
- 9/10/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Gay Talese on casting the Steven Spielberg, Sam Mendes film that never happened: "The voyeur - this is not an attractive person. It's not like George Clooney." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the second instalment of my conversation with Gay Talese, the subject of Myles Kane and Josh Koury's Voyeur, The Voyeur's Motel author sheds some more light on the collapse of the movie deal with Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes. The Washington Post's research on his book, Joan Didion being seen as "a beloved angel", Nan Talese's reaction to the documentary, and the genre of Gay Talese storytelling are bared before the world premiere screening of Voyeur in the Spotlight on Documentary programme of the 55th New York Film Festival.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes pulled out on their film project.
Gay Talese: It's not that they saw it [Voyeur, the documentary]. This guy Myles Kane gave them...
In the second instalment of my conversation with Gay Talese, the subject of Myles Kane and Josh Koury's Voyeur, The Voyeur's Motel author sheds some more light on the collapse of the movie deal with Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes. The Washington Post's research on his book, Joan Didion being seen as "a beloved angel", Nan Talese's reaction to the documentary, and the genre of Gay Talese storytelling are bared before the world premiere screening of Voyeur in the Spotlight on Documentary programme of the 55th New York Film Festival.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes pulled out on their film project.
Gay Talese: It's not that they saw it [Voyeur, the documentary]. This guy Myles Kane gave them...
- 9/27/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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