The Los Angeles Times writes about a batch new books, which will be out soon, on ‘monster’ figures in the literary and publishing industry, ala ‘The Devil Wears Prada’. Publishing insiders are now spending their time speculating as to the real identities of these characters.

The New York gossip world, however, has been buzzing ever since galleys of Clark’s 274-page book began circulating last month. The publisher, Warner Books, has openly touted the Regan connection, sending reporters a juicy item from Lloyd Grove, a former New York Daily News columnist, who described Vivien Grant, the novel’s main character, as “a wildly abusive, foul-mouthed, pantsuit-wearing publisher who favors down-market bestsellers about strippers and pimps, boasts about her sexual escapades to overworked staffers and carries on an extramarital affair with a New York City public official who — presumably unlike Regan’s onetime paramour, former Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik — likes to be photographed wearing lipstick and lingerie.” Claire Truman, the young protagonist in Clark’s book, thinks she’s heard it all as she comes to work for Grant. But nothing prepares her for a boss who calls at all hours, makes brazen intrusions into her private life and throws vulgar tantrums. (Regan declined to comment on her former employee’s novel.)

via artsjournal