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Aevitas Creative Management literary agency is linking with Rubin Pfeffer Content, a literary agency for authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults.

Aevitas Creative Management announced that Andy McNicol will join ACM as an agent.

On January 6, as the first snowstorm of 2024 loomed in the sky, a group of women brightened the day as they gathered for lunch at Gossips on 9th Av...

• The HBO Original documentary SOUTH TO BLACK POWER, a This Machine production, directed by Peabody and Emmy®-winning filmmaker Sam Poll

Two rival communities come ­together to combat environmental disaster in a new children’s book co-authored by Hawaii’s Maya Soetoro-Ng, a well-known peace ­activist and academic.

New deals for Jenn P. Nguyen, Maleeha Siddiqui, Sarah Beth Durst, and others.

Little, Brown buys Nathan Harris’s follow-up to The Sweetness of Water, two Washington Post reporters sell a bio of George Floyd to Viking, and more.

After starring in two Netflix projects in a row, The Prom and the upcoming The School for Good and Evil, Kerry Washington is going for the trifecta. Washington, 44, has signed on to both star in and produce an adaptation of Diane Cardwells 2020 memoir Rockaway, according to a Netflix press release. The actress will produce through her Simpson Street production company, alongside Pilar Savone. Trifecta: After starring in two Netflix projects in a row, The Prom and the upcoming The School for Go...

Cardwell posted a link to an article about the movie on Twitter and wrote: "Some news! I’m over the moon to have Rockaway in the hands of such a talented — and mostly female — team." Meanwhile, Kerry is set to co-star with Charlize Theron in Paul Feigs The School for Good and Evil, based on the best-selling series of novels. Paul said: "Ive been such a massive fan of Kerrys forever and to finally find something for us to do together is just more proof that 2021 is gonna be way wa...

Quarantine Busy Body Alicia Witt Finishes Album, Book Chris Gardner Alicia Witt Alicia Witt likely won’t be one of those who looks back on the pandemic and wishes she had accomplished more. The veteran actress, who co-starred in last year’s Netflix hit I Care a Lot, is readying to release her latest single as a singer-songwriter, “Talk to You,” followed by her fifth studio album, The Conduit, in the fall; then comes her debut self-help book, Small Changes, out Oct. ...