Judith Regan To Bring Words To LA's Heathens
Judith Regan, book publisher to the stars, is packing up her galleys and moving from New York to Hollywood to reinvent herself as a multimedia concern. While this relocation will undoubtedly put her in closer proximity to potential ReganBooks authors (there's a pretty good chance one of her wealthy neighbors will one day off someone and need to tell their side of the story), Regan asserts that she's "not interested in moving to L.A. to do movie star books"; rather, she'll settle for nothing short of inciting a cultural revolution:
She also said she intended to bring a different idea of culture to Southern California. "I would like to create a cultural center," she said, a sort of salon where authors could meet informally with people in the television and film businesses, with a bookstore and cafe, space for readings or other cultural events and perhaps a studio for a radio show that she hopes to serve as host.
While most East Coast literary elitists scoff and decry Los Angeles as a cultural wasteland where nobody reads, the trailblazing Regan sees an opportunity to bring the printed word to industry heathens who can't make it all the way through their script coverage without a "brain break." We can see this glorious salon now, where current bestselling ReganBooks authors Jose Canseco and Amber Frey sip tea and discuss the Joycian allusions sprinkled throughout Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big with Imagine's Brian Grazer and the minor functionary who transcribes his unspoken thoughts based solely on meaningful facial expressions. Our city will never be the same.
