Dilettante: True Tales of Excess, Triumph, and Disaster tells the story of Graydon Carter’s protégé Dana Brown and the way he navigated his method across the New York media world within the Nineteen Nineties.
The e-book is now being tailored for tv and is within the works at Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television.
Brown, who began working hospitality earlier than turning into Vanity Fair editor Carter’s assistant and later deputy editor of the Condé Nast title, revealed {that a} scripted collection based mostly on his memoir is “close” to be taken out to broadcasters and streamers.
Brown revealed that Berlanti and Warner Bros. TV had optioned his e-book in an interview on the How Long Gone podcast.
“I’m very focused on trying to get my book to TV screens,” he mentioned, “My book is under option at Warner Bros. with Berlanti, which is the best company in TV to be at and we are getting close to taking this thing out. I’m excited because a ’90s New York show is my fantasy show.”
He described it as “kind of like Suits but with the backstabbing of Succession”, though he admitted that he’d by no means truly watched the USA Network authorized drama.
In the e-book, Brown particulars how he grew to become a trusted confidante to Carter and hung out in New York and LA at swanky media occasions, together with the Oscars, all with the Vanity Fair company card in his pocket.
He additionally reveals run ins with the likes of Anna Wintour, Lee Radziwill, and Condé Nast proprietor Si Newhouse, in addition to Seth Rogen, Caitlyn Jenner, and journalists Dominick Dunne and Christopher Hitchens.
Warner Bros. TV and Berlanti Prods. declined to remark.
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