The New York Times talks to Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner about his debut novel, Heather, the Totality. Weiner said that although he’d always wanted to write fiction, he wasn’t sure he would ever have the opportunity to do so, and has been shocked by his book’s warm reception in the literary world. “It’s like someone who goes to the casino for the first time and wins,” he said.

Rose McGowan’s upcoming memoir will be released in January, one month earlier than planned. Brave will be published in January by Harper One.

The Millions talks to An Odyssey author Daniel Mendelsohn about memoirs,

Former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile has come under fire for her new tell-all political memoir Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-Ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House. Brazile has been deeply critical of Hillary Clinton, and in interviews she has called Clinton’s presidential campaign “worse than Hurricane Katrina.” More than 100 former senior aides with Hillary for America responded with a rebuttal to Brazile’s account, proclaiming, among other things, that “It is particularly troubling and puzzling that she would seemingly buy into false Russian-fueled

Local news sites DNAinfo and Gothamist were shut down yesterday by owner Joe Ricketts. The decision comes one week after the New York offices of the company voted to unionize, and will affect 115 employees. In a post on the website, Ricketts wrote that while he was proud of his reporters for covering “tens of thousands of stories that have informed, impacted and inspired millions of people . . . DNAinfo is, at the end of the day, a business, and businesses need to be economically successful if they are to endure.”

Condé Nast is ending the print edition of Teen Vogue, and will be reducing the

Michael Oreskes, head of news at NPR, has resigned after multiple women alleged that he sexually assaulted them when he served as the Washington bureau chief of the New York Times. More men have come forward with allegations of sexual assault against actor Kevin Spacey. Deadline speculates that the alleged incidents—which have already halted filming on the upcoming season of House of Cards—might affect Spacey’s biopic about Gore Vidal. Netflix has yet to comment on whether the streaming service will release Gore as scheduled in 2018.

The Cut’s Anna Silman talks to Sarah Polley, whose miniseries

Agatha French reports on the PEN Center USA Literary Awards, held last week in Los Angeles. Winners included Solmaz Sharif’s Look for poetry, Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air for creative nonfiction, and Martin Pousson’s Black Sheep Boy for fiction. Presenter Nick Offerman noted that if anyone wanted to call the president “an incompetent, degenerate boob,” or “a cartoon slug made of Cheeto dust,” that PEN “will fight for your ability to do so.”

Bloomberg looks at Facebook’s inability to control the spread of fake news on its social media site. Although the company has implemented a

Jacqueline Woodson talks to Entertainment Weekly about her new two-book deal with Riverhead. Woodson’s last book, Another Brooklyn, was her first work of adult fiction in twenty years. “I think it’s much harder to write for young people than it is to write for adults,” she said. “You have to go back to that place of being a young person yourself and so many adults have either deliberately forgotten that place (probably because it was too painful a time to hold onto) or they just can’t access it.”

The Guardianspeculates on who might be in the running for the next editor of Vanity Fair. Two

Why the French love Philip Roth.

The Sh*tty Men in Media list began as a private, anonymously crowdsourced document meant to warn women about men who had been accused of sexual harassment. It was, writes Madison Malone Kircher at New York magazine, meant “more as a shield than a weapon.” But that didn’t last long. Though the list has been taken down from Reddit, screenshots are circulating online. “It’s now being leaked and distributed not to protect women from predators but to publicly attack the men on it,” Kircher writes. One person who has sought to “weaponize” the list is ultra-right-wing

The Environmental Protection Agency has accused the New York Times of writing “elitist clickbait trying to attack qualified professionals committed to serving their country.” The comment was in response to Eric Lipton’s story, “Why Has the E.P.A. Shifted on Toxic Chemicals? An Industry Insider Helps Call the Shots.” The spokesperson who sent the message, Liz Bowman, had previously been employed at the American Chemistry Council, a trade association for chemical companies. She told Erik Wemple that she is happy to cooperate with reporters, but feels that Lipton is biased: “There are a lot of

Margaret Atwood’s book Alias Grace will be a Netflix miniseries written and produced by Sarah Polley. The show will premiere on November 3rd and follows the successful adaptation of Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, which won an Emmy for best drama this year. Atwood told the New York Times, “No one else would’ve asked me to do this but Sarah Polley. . . . Both Sarah and I are interested in what is true and what is not true. I think she liked that a lot of my films have characters crossed with madness. And she knew I wouldn’t try to make ‘Downton Abbey.’” Atwood also hinted that at least two more

Mother Jones’s Andy Kroll looks into the history of Sinclair Broadcasting, which will be in 72 percent of American households after it buys Tribune Media’s television stations. The company has close ties to the Trump administration and requires their stations to run segments by former Trump staffer Boris Epshteyn. According Kroll, the network’s conservative viewpoints have become more prominent as the company has expanded. Currently, “stations are required to air terrorism alerts daily,” and “responded to criticism of its must-run Boris Epshteyn segments by tripling the number of times stations

The bankruptcy of the Alaska News Dispatch should serve as “a cautionary tale that shows the limits of what a wealthy owner is willing, or able, to do for a struggling newspaper in the digital era,” writes William D. Cohan. Owner Alice Rogoff, wife of Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein, bought the newspaper in 2014, but filed for bankruptcy earlier this year after being unable to keep up with the paper’s mounting debts. “Creating indispensable journalism—whether at the local or national level—is not without cost,” Cohan concludes. “If people aren’t willing to pay for it, like they pay

PW recently asked women who work in book publishing if they’ve experienced sexual harassment, assault, or predatory behavior in the workplace. “We found that in spite of publishing’s high percentage of female workers (it’s estimated at roughly 80%), the industry still has a sexual harassment problem.”

Simon and Schuster has announced that it will publish John McCain’s new memoir, The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations, in April.

BuzzFeed looks back at Madonna’s book Sex, the bestselling, fifty-dollar coffee-table book was published twenty-five years