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Published Mar 04 2008, 04:02 PM by Sharon Steel

Sloane Crosley: The new Dorothy Parker, some say -- or just our new Imaginary Friend

Kelefa Sanneh, our favorite New York Times pop music critic, is going to be a staff writer at The New Yorker! Now he and the S.F.J. can totally duke it out over the Lil' Mama and Britney coverage. Loving it! Also moving to 4 Times Square is New York magazine writer Ariel Levy, of whose work we are also big fans.

Margaret B. Jones's (not her real name!) Love and Consequences, a memoir about coming-of-age as a penniless, abused foster child in the L.A. gang the Bloods was -- wait for it -- a big, fat lie. Girl got Michiko Kakutani creaming over her writing last week, and she's a stone-faced bullshit artist. Oh, the many ways in which she could have handled this differently. Peggy, did you ever think about writing a non-fiction book based on your friends' accounts, instead of, we don't know, passing them off as your own?!

Remember when we freaked out over that Sloane Crosley profile in the NY Observer? The Most Popular Publicist in the World is back, and her new book is about to come out. The hype machine is nearly short-circuiting itself over her tome? You don't say! We're still really, really excited to read it, though. This is the first personal essay Sloane published, in the Village Voice, and it's very funny and good, so we guess the blurbers are all right. We like her. We can't help it. Please let her survive this ugly process of the build-up and the backlash.

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Levain said:

I don't know if comments on Gawker qualify as worldwide "backlash" but I do wish her luck either way. I read a piece she wrote for Playboy once (for the article, please!) and it's still tacked to my fridge (words, just the words!)

When does her book come out, mid-April? Sweet.

March 5, 2008 5:26 AM
sharon said:

Her book is actually out April 1! I requested a copy and will read it asap.

Totally hear you about the Playboy. And hey, it's not as if they're any worse than New York mag at this point!

March 5, 2008 6:38 PM

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