From the Los Angeles Times:

Is the publishing world the new “Prada”?

That’s the feeling readers might get from two new novels by Debra Ginsberg and Bridie Clark, which might remind them — at least superficially — of the high-end fashion scene depicted in “The Devil Wears Prada.” In all three, an ambitious young woman goes to work for a cruel, over-the-top female boss, only to survive in the end with her dignity intact. Ginsberg’s recently published “Blind Submission” and Clark’s “Because She Can,” which will come out in February, are set in the ferocious literary jungle. They lampoon two larger-than-life characters in the book business for whom the authors have previously worked: Ginsberg with Sandra Dijkstra, a prominent literary agent based in Southern California who has nurtured many bestselling authors, and Clark with Judith Regan, the publisher who was recently fired by HarperCollins for allegedly making anti-Semitic remarks after cooking up the aborted literary and television package on O.J. Simpson.

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