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April 16, 2025
Range Media Partners Nabs James Frey
James FreyDutch DoscherEXCLUSIVE: Bestselling author James Frey has signed with Range Media Partners for representation.
Billed as “America’s Most Notorious Author” by Time magazine, the “Bad Boy of American Letters” by The New York Times, and “America’s Most Important Writer” by Esquire, Frey has written multiple global bestsellers, including A Million Little Pieces, Bright Shiny Morning, and The Final Testament of the Holy Bible. He has sold more than 30 million books and is published in 42 languages.
Frey penned the screenplays for 1998’s Kissing A Fool and Sugar: The Fall of the West, which he also directed. His other film or television work includes 2019’s I Am Number Four (based on his YA sci-fi novel written under the pen name Pitticus Lore) for DreamWorks. He executive produced CBS’ American Gothicdrama series and co-wrote 2019’s crime drama Queen and Slim, on which he also served as a producer. He’s currently adapting his forthcoming novel, Next To Heaven, into a television series for Department M. The novel, billed as “a satirical thrill ride through the dark heart of privilege,” will be published by Authors Equity and distributed by Simon & Schuster on June 17.
April 15, 2025
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Gatsby @ 100
Editions of The Great Gatsby—which achieved popularity only after F. Scott Fitzgerald’s death—abound, but the mysteries surrounding the Great American Novel endure
BY NATHAN KING
Robert Redford and Mia Farrow in the 1974 film adaptation of The Great Gatsby.F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final royalty check was for $13.13, making him the recipient of a double dose of bad luck. By 1940, the novel he thought to be his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, was very nearly out of print, and the woman he regarded as the love of his life, Zelda Fitzgerald, was living across the country, in and out of mental hospitals.
When Fitzgerald died alone, of a heart attack in Hollywood at the age of 44—leave it to the world’s biggest romantic to perish of a broken heart—he considered himself a washed-up failure. The Great Gatsby hadn’t even sold out its initial printing, in 1925, of 23,000 copies, and Fitzgerald was living hand to mouth (the hand was big, but so was the mouth) writing short stories and film scripts. As an author, he was well known to the public but something of a back number. As a man, he was a shell of himself. The American Dream, the Great American Novel, the American Girl—for Fitzgerald, they were all wrapped up together—had eluded him, and not for want of trying.
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April 14, 2025
Rodrigo Corral (back with James Frey)
In an industry ruled by #BookTok trends, Rodrigo Corral has become the publishing industry’s go-to designer by creating an undefinable style.
[Photo: Michael Schmelling]There’s one big thing about Rodrigo Corral that does not initially make sense: The book cover maestro does not have a signature style.
Consider his chameleonic cover hits. The Fault in Our Stars. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Survivor, Lullaby and the rest of Chuck Palahniuk’s catalog. Rachel Cusk’s books. James Frey’s controversial A Million Little Pieces, the cover that helped launch Corral into ubiquity. Recent collaborative output like Intermezzo and Mojave Ghost. The books don’t have obvious visual connective tissue between them—but somehow, as creative director of Farrar, Straus and Giroux and his eponymous studio, Corral has spent the past three decades quietly redefining the look of the modern book again and again.
April 13, 2025
The Funk
Funk music has been around since the 1960s, developing out of gospel, R&B and soul, with a distinct emphasis on “syncopated bass lines and steady, infectious drum grooves,” according to one description. But that’s an awfully academic way of putting it.
The most important thing: Funk makes you want to dance.
We Want the Funk!, a new documentary premiering Tuesday night on PBS stations, will have you moving in your recliner, on your living room dance floor or wherever you watch it. Directors Stanley Nelson and Nicole London join the latest episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to explore the music and its key innovators including James Brown, George Clinton and Sly Stone.
April 12, 2025
Chapter 25 w/ James Frey
NEXT TO HEAVEN – James FreyWhat do you know about James Frey?
Or what do you think you know about James Frey?
I’m guessing it’s not nothing. Everyone has an opinion! When I first spotted ‘A Million Little Pieces‘ on my wife’s bookshelf when we were moving in together I was like “Oh? Really? That book? The Oprah guy?”
And she was like “Have you read it?”
And I was like “No, no idea what it’s even about. Just that it’s not real or whatever.”
She looked at me with disappointed eyes. Understandably so! I hadn’t bothered to go below the surface. To read about it on my own. I had just soaked in some distant fumes off the story.
“Read it,” she said, and pushed the book into my hands.
That night I opened ‘A Million Little Pieces’ and was completely pulled into this pulsing, frenetic, endlessly climactic story of addiction, growth, and finding yourself. The book shook me. It was a masterpiece. I couldn’t believe it existed. I almost felt anger towards the Oprah saga because it headfaked me into thinking I knew what the book was about… when I couldn’t have been more off. I went deeper into James Frey’s catalogue and found myself similarly seduced by books like ‘Bright Shiny Morning‘ and ‘Katerina,’ and am looking forward to Frey’s new novel, ‘Next To Heaven,’ which is coming out in June 2025.
April 11, 2025
White Sands Ancients
By Adrianna Nine, Southwest Contributing Parks Editor
Though it was underwater just 12,000 years ago, White Sands National Park — now an arid desert landscape — abounds with remnants of ancient human history. White Sands Missile Range, a Department of Defense-owned test area surrounding the park, features the world’s largest collection of ice age footprints, which were left behind by people dependent on the region’s bygone lake. Among those footprints, scientists have found new evidence of ancient activity recorded in the sand — and it’s transforming their understanding of early human technology.
These, too, are tracks, but not the kind left by feet. Instead, they belong to travois, the earliest form of terrestrial transportation currently known. Made with long sticks and a basket or net, these primeval vehicles look a bit like a wheelbarrow without the wheel: Pulling the lifted handle or handles moved the basket attached to the sticks, allowing a person to glide heavy cargo across the sand.
April 10, 2025
Don’t Murder Me
Nature gave the world the dire wolf 2.6 million years ago, and then, through the hard hand of extinction, took it away—some 10,000 to 13,000 years ago when the last of the species died out. Now, the dire wolf is back, brought bounding into the 21st century by Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based biotech company. On April 8, Colossal announced it had used both cloning and gene-editing based on two ancient samples of dire wolf DNA to birth three pups, the six-month-old males Romulus and Remus and the two-month-old female Khaleesi.
“Our team took DNA from a 13,000 year old tooth and a 72,000 year old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies,” said Colossal CEO Ben Lamm in a statement that accompanied the announcement of the births. “It was once said, ‘any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.’ Today, our team gets to unveil some of the magic they are working on.”
April 9, 2025
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