By George Rush and Joanna Molloy,Tribune Media Services

Even as the buzz dies down around “The Devil Wears Prada,” Anna Wintour may again be swatting at her ears.

Vogue’s sachem of schmattes – all but certainly the model for Meryl Streep’s character in the fashion flick based on the book by onetime Wintour assistant Lauren Weisberger – looms large in Karen Yampolsky’s upcoming novel about her own stint at Conde Nast.

Yampolsky was the longtime assistant to Jane magazine founder Jane Pratt, but the book, “Wunderkind,” won’t be a “Devil Wears Birkenstocks.” The pages she’s penned portray Pratt – the edgy editor with such an open attitude toward fashion that she’d ask readers how she should cut and color her hair – positively.

But the characters in this roman a clef, with a veil as thin as a burqa in August, include rival editor in chief Myra Chernoff, who wears fur and terrorizes an underling for eating a bagel at her desk. She also steals cover subjects from competing magazines and throws a tantrum when she is seated next to a fellow editor she dislikes. In one anecdote, Jill, the Pratt-like protagonist and a vegetarian, so fears Chernoff’s wrath, she chokes down venison at one of Chernoff’s swank dinner parties.

While the company line last July was that Pratt left by choice, Yampolsky’s book tells a tale of Jill being pushed off the masthead by a higher-up who, if Fairchild’s Mary Berner were to look in the magic mirror, might not be the fairest of them all.