“Diary Of An Oxygen Thief” sells to Simon & Schuster imprint galleryMay 4, 2016 - 17:37 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - North American rights to Diary Of An Oxygen Thief just sold to Jeremie Ruby-Straus at Gallery, the Simon & Schuster imprint. Waxman Leavell now is looking to make an international deal, Deadline reports. Just as an auction for publishing rights is going on, Gotham Group has acquired screen rights to Diary of an Oxygen Thief, a book written by an anonymous author that takes a raw look at the complicated relationships between men and women. Told from the male perspective by an unreliable narrator, it’s tonally compared to Fight Club or American Psycho. It has been a bit of a secret till now, but there is an auction going on through publishing agent Byrd Leavall of Waxman/Leavell for the first book, to be published in the fall. Gotham Group will produce the film version of the book and its follow-up, Chameleon on a Kaleidoscope. The author’s working on a third installment. The author — who wrote the book under “Anonymous” and is a award-winning former creative director from a major ad agency — has been hand-selling the book on street corners in Soho and biking copies to local bookstores. He replenishes the supply a few at a time, as the book built steam and would sell out. Copies are on sale on eBay for as much as $1,250 for a hardcover; used paperbacks are selling for more than $100 on Amazon, making it a bit of a self-publishing phenomenon. The book has sold more than 50K copies in the past three months alone, bringing the total to 90K. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Czech-Armenian military cooperation discussed in Yerevan A delegation led by the Director General for the Industrial Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic visited Armenia. U.S. welcomes efforts to define Armenia-Azerbaijan border The United States welcomes efforts to define the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, says Vedant Patel. Biden honors resilience of Armenian people on April 24 U.S. President Joe Biden has issued a statement on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Ex-Karabakh leader moved to solitary confinement cell in Baku, his son says David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. |