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So says People , which delivered the news that Mama Spears's manuscript -- put on hold after the teenaged Jamie Lynn Spears got preg -- will be published this fall. Originally titled Pop Culture Mom , the book is now called Through the Storm: A Real...
So says People , which delivered the news that Mama Spears's manuscript -- put on hold after the teenaged Jamie Lynn Spears got preg -- will be published this fall. Originally titled Pop Culture Mom , the book is now called Through the Storm: A Real...
Over at Omnivoracious , hosted by Amazon.com. Only one post is up so far and it's annoyingly music-centric. Why all the flashing lights and filler for your readings, James Frey? Why can't you just get up there and, um, READ? We have grown grumpy...
How stoked was Richard Johnson when he and the rest of the Page Six crew got to slap the headline " Mailer's Lust Goes to Harvard " on today's Post ? We're still getting over the ick-factor, but the item is pretty interesting, if...
Daniel Mendelsohn ( The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million ) wrote what we thought was a depressing but super-smart Op-Ed piece in the Sunday Times . He makes excellent points about the fake-memoir trend, but even more important, he explains what it...
RECALLED. Everyone is all in a huff over the "Margaret Jones" scandal . Her True Life story, Love and Consequences: A Memoir of Hope and Survival , was a fraud. She is not part Native American. She was not an abused foster child living on the...
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...
The New York Daily News reports today that t he authors of the new Anna Nicole Smith book are suing their own publisher . Jody (Babydol) Gibson , a former Hollywood "super madam," is selling "Anna Nicole Smith: Portrait of an Icon"...
James Frey is serious about his come-back, so much so that he's jazzing up his forthcoming novel, Bright Shiny Morning , with jacket art by his friend Richard Prince. He's also thinking of going Ira Glass on us, with a book tour that the New York...
Publisher Nan A. Talese publicly blasted Oprah over the James Frey controversy this Saturday , at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest: "I'm afraid I'm unapologetic of the whole thing," she said. "And...
