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HarperCollins Publishers has dropped plans to release a book by Chris Cuomo amid the controversy that led to his firing by CNN, The Post has learned. A spokesperson for the company’s Custom House imprint confirmed the decision Tuesday following a report that a listing for the planned hardcover was recently removed from the Amazon website. “I can confirm that we don’t intend to publish the book,” spokesperson Kelly Rudolph told The Post. Rudolph declined to elaborate.

Anthony Weiner is trying to transform himself into the next Longfellow. The serial sexter and former congressman — who is now living in a Bronx halfway house after doing hard time for sexting a teenager — is skulking around Manhattan’s publishing houses trying to shop a book proposal, literary sources say. So far, interest has been flaccid. “Every Simon & Schuster imprint has passed,” an insider told The Post. The project is being repped by the hot downtown boutique agency Foundry Literary + Media — which was behind nonfiction best-sellers by “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah, New Orleans Saints coach...

<p>In a room filled with the biggest names in New York media — from Megyn Kelly, Savannah Guthrie and Gayle King to Lester Holt and Don Lemon — the man everyone wanted to hear from was Stormy Daniels’ lawyer.</p> <p>At the Hollywood Reporter’s annual “35 Most Powerful People in New York Media” event at the Pool, the unlikely man of the hour was Michael Avenatti, who has barely been off-air since he started representing the porn star in inimitable style.</p>