![]() ![]() Aiming to “to push the ball forward … with wit and style”, the imprint launched in 2017 with Jenny Zhang’s Sour Heart, a collection of coming-of-age tales about young immigrant women in America. Lena Dunham’s Lenny Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, spawned from the actor-writer’s Lenny newsletter, a weekly feminist bulletin she launched with collaborator Jenni Konner in 2015. ![]() ![]() In the last decade, in fact, the celebrity imprint has become something of a cottage industry, an endeavor mutually beneficial to publishing houses in pursuit of stars and their lucrative fanbases and celebrities looking for another feather in their cap. It also puts him in the company of Hollywood power players such as Oprah, Sarah Jessica Parker and Johnny Depp, each of whom have made literary inroads of their own. Stormzy’s imprint, #Merky Books, expands an entertainment network that already includes a record label (#Merky Records) and a music festival (#Merky Festival). ![]()
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