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Republican Senators have asked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in a letter why a book that “challenges the transgender movement” was pulled from sale on the website. The book, When Harry Became Sally by Ryan T. Anderson, was an Amazon bestseller. Its description says it provides “thoughtful answers to questions arising from our…

Bridgerton, which has become Netflix’s biggest series ever, continues to raise the bar as the series-turned-cultural phenomenon handed Julia Quinn and the Vitamin String Quartet boosts in book sales and streams, respectively. Netflix revealed that following the show’s explosive December debut, Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton…

EXCLUSIVE: Uri Singer has secured the rights to The Silence, the latest novel by prolific author Don DeLillo. Singer is currently producing a film adaptation to DeLillo’s highly-regarded 1985 novel White Noise, which Noah Baumbach is directing for Netflix and Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig are attached to star. Released…

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the founder of San Francisco’s iconic City Lights Books and an integral figure in the Beat poetry movement, has died. The publisher and activist’s son, Lorenzo Ferlinghetti told AP that he died Monday at his home of lung disease. He was 101. The San Francisco icon helped launch the Beat movement…

International Literary Properties, the New York- and London-based rights management outfit, has expanded the role of its UK CEO Hilary Strong to include Europe. In her new remit as CEO of UK and Europe, the former Agatha Christie Ltd CEO will be responsible for the company's UK and European acquisition program. She…

EXCLUSIVE: The Cosby Show alumna Phylicia Rashad has teamed with Virgin River executive producers Roma Roth and Christopher E. Perry to executive produce and possibly star (schedule permitting) in a series adaptation of Emily March’s ongoing 18-part novel series Eternity Springs. Writer John E. Pogue (Beauty and The Be…

EXCLUSIVE: Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge, the bestselling true-crime authors behind the books that were made into the movies Patriots Day and The Finest Hours, are now teaming in the podcast space with Saints, Sinners & Serial Killers. The new series will launch March 15 and a joint production of MuddHouse Media and…

Mila Kunis has signed on to topline the Netflix feature adaptation of Luckiest Girl Alive, based on author Jessica Knoll’s 2015 New York Times bestselling novel of the same name. Knoll will write the screenplay, while Mike Barker, who served as a director and executive producer of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, will…

Holly Madison's bestselling memoir, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny, is in the works for the small screen. Sony Pictures Television has optioned the tell-all book for development as a limited series with Samara Weaving (Hollywood) set to star as Madison…

EXCLUSIVE Producers Webster Stone and Robert Stone have acquired rights to Anthony Bourdain's crime novel Gone Bamboo for a scripted series based on a pilot. The 1997 book was the celebrity chef’s second published work of fiction. Set on the island of St. Martin, Gone Bamboo follows sharpshooting hedonistic assassin…

Netflix said Thursday that it is turning Sulwe, the bestselling children’s book by Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, into an animated musical, the latest move by the streamer to bolster its feature animation slate that already includes Richard Linklater's Apollo 10½: A Space Age Adventure, Henry Selick's Wendell & Wild…

EXCLUSIVE: Sanjena Sathian's novel Gold Diggers is being adapted for television by Mindy Kaling's Kaling International. Sathian will co-write the adaptation, with Kaling set to executive produce. Spanning two continents, two coasts and four epochs, Gold Diggers is a social satire and tale of magical realism. It…