Nice profile of local author James Collins in the New York Times.
Some interesting tidbits:
Mr. Collins, who will be 50 this spring, received an advance just shy of half a million dollars from Little, Brown for the book “Beginner’s Greek.”
“The line that really caught on around here is that Peter is more Cary Grant than Hugh Grant,” said Judy Clain, Mr. Collins’s editor at Little, Brown.
“Never in my life having pitched a story to a movie executive,” Mr. Collins said, “there I am at 1 a.m. with Harvey Weinstein and Mrs. Weinstein and Anne Hathaway. They were listening and I was stumbling along, and Anne Hathaway would leap in when I was really struggling and say something encouraging like, ‘Oh, I had friends that were in love and married the wrong people.’ And then we desperately tried to find them a copy of the book, but we couldn’t. It was a bit surreal.”
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