Judith regan, 48, orders a double espresso while commenting that she can't sleep. "I am hyperalert and highly sensitive to any stimulation," she says, gesticulating nervously. She is talking about her hypersensi-tivities as a way of explaining her instinct for picking bestselling books. "Gut feeling is what I go on," she says at a fast clip. "I could tell my husband cheated on me by the way he walked in the front door." The instinct is working, at least for book picking. In the last two years Regan's imprint, ReganBooks, a unit of News Corp.'s HarperCollins, has put 18 titles on the New York Times bestseller list, a feat no other small publishing house comes close to matching. In recent weeks she's had four on the list: The Lost Son, by Bernard Kerik; In the Line of Duty, a collection of 9/11 photos; Family, by Mario Puzo, and most recently, Stupid White Men and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation, by Michael Moore.
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