Javelin - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:28:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Javelin - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 What Do John Bolton’s Publisher and Agents Owe the American People? https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/01/31/what-do-john-boltons-publisher-and-agents-owe-the-american-people/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-do-john-boltons-publisher-and-agents-owe-the-american-people Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:39:49 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=999757 It’s a rare accomplishment to provoke acrimony on a truly bipartisan basis. And yet that’s exactly what has befallen John Bolton—first by blowing up the impeachment proceedings with a revelations from his forthcoming tell-all book, and then with his insistence that he would testify before the Senate only if issued a subpoena. Bolton’s line in […]

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We Pulled the Best ‘Anonymous’ Excerpts So You Can Own Your Thanksgiving Political Debate https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/11/28/we-pulled-the-best-anonymous-excerpts-so-you-can-own-your-thanksgiving-political-debate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-pulled-the-best-anonymous-excerpts-so-you-can-own-your-thanksgiving-political-debate Thu, 28 Nov 2019 21:24:09 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=937912 Sure, the ‘Anonymous’ book is getting mixed reviews. But it’s also a how-to for smacking down your Trump-adoring relatives this Thanksgiving. While etiquette experts have offered advice to Americans about avoiding political confrontation, we at Washingtonian have taken an opposite tack, pulling the best snippets from the book so you can troll your relatives with greater ease. […]

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How Much Could Michael Cohen Actually Get for That Book Deal? We Asked Literary Agents. https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/02/28/how-much-could-michael-cohen-actually-get-for-that-book-deal-we-asked-literary-agents/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-much-could-michael-cohen-actually-get-for-that-book-deal-we-asked-literary-agents Thu, 28 Feb 2019 19:47:08 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=634040 Republicans on the House Oversight Committee hammered Michael Cohen Wednesday about the most nefarious thing one could possibly do in Washington: get a book deal out of service to the President. “You’re set to go to jail for a couple years. if you come out with a book deal, that’s not bad living,” Representative Michael Cloud […]

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Why James Comey’s Book Agents Are One of DC’s Biggest Literary Business Stories https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/06/05/why-james-comey-book-agents-are-one-of-dcs-biggest-literary-business-stories/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-james-comey-book-agents-are-one-of-dcs-biggest-literary-business-stories Tue, 05 Jun 2018 13:12:47 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=386754 James Comey was late to his own book party, racing to the Newseum after his flight was delayed. But if the event’s hosts were stressed, it wasn’t apparent to anyone in the room. Matt Latimer and Keith Urbahn—who together run the Washington literary agency Javelin—were deftly working the crowd, greeting guests like Donna Brazile and […]

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