{"id":61,"date":"2006-11-21T19:19:15","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T03:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/21\/what-does-this-woman-believe-in\/"},"modified":"2006-12-31T18:16:12","modified_gmt":"2007-01-01T02:16:12","slug":"what-does-this-woman-believe-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/publishing\/what-does-this-woman-believe-in\/","title":{"rendered":"What does this woman believe in?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" class=\"image-align-left\" alt=\"judith regan\" title=\"judith regan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog_images\/judith-regan.jpg\" \/><em><br \/>\n<\/em>Judith Regan must be furious about her O. J. book being retracted. After all, she once screamed in an editorial meeting &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s a pussy here but me!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back in the day I used to see her occasionally at American Booksellers Association and Book Expo America events. She&#8217;s been called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/nymetro\/news\/media\/columns\/medialife\/152\/\">hands down, the most successful editor in the book business<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I never looked at her that way. But then, I&#8217;ve never quite got the hang of gauging success strictly in terms of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>So what does she believe in? Judge for yourself. Following are some of her greatest works (alphabetical by author):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jose Canseco, <em>Juiced<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Gen. Tommy Franks, <em>American Soldier<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Kathie Lee Gifford, <em>I Can&#8217;t Believe I Said That!<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sean Hannity, <em>Deliver Us from Evil<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jenna Jameson, <em>How to Make Love Like a Porn Star<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sue Johanson, <em>Sex, Sex, and More Sex<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Ian Kerner, <em>She Comes First: The Thinking Man&#8217;s Guide to Pleasuring a Woman<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Wally Lamb, <em>Couldn&#8217;t Keep It to Myself<\/em> [women in prison]<\/li>\n<li>Rush Limbaugh, <em>See I Told You So<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Legs McNeil, <em>The Other Hollywood: the Uncensored Oral History of the Pornographic Film Industry<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Michael Moore, <em>Stupid White Men<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Peggy Noonan, <em>The Case Against Hillary Clinton<\/em><\/li>\n<li>O.J.Simpson, <em>If I Did It<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Howard Stern, <em>Private Parts<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050208183458\/www.vanityfair.com\/commentary\/content\/articles\/041206roco01\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050208183458\/www.vanityfair.com\/commentary\/content\/articles\/041206roco01\">Judith Newman, &#8220;The Devil and Miss Regan&#8221;<\/a> (<em>Vanity Fair<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Judith_Regan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Judith_Regan\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Update:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to Steve Kettmann at SFGate, &#8220;it would be hard to deny she has probably been &#8220;<a title=\"Regan's influence\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2006\/12\/31\/RVGO2N2M8F1.DTL&#038;feed=rss.books\">the single most influential force in publishing over the past decade<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judith Regan must be furious about her O. J. book being retracted. After all, she once screamed in an editorial meeting &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s a pussy here but me!&#8221; Back&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}