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June 12, 2008

Lynne Spears memoir "will not be a parenting book."
By webteam

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 Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World, which seems both overly dramatic yet somehow more appropriate.

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Book Scandal, Everyone's An Author, Spin

June 12, 2008

Lynne Spears memoir "will not be a parenting book."
By Sharon Steel

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 Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World, which seems both overly dramatic yet somehow more appropriate.

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Book Scandal, Everyone's An Author, Spin

May 05, 2008

James Frey is Blogging...
By Sharon Steel

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 and tired of you, sir. We don't care what you think of Ozzfest, we would rather hear some things about your forthcoming book and your deal with HarperCollins and maybe, erhm, advice for writers who fucked up and are still trucking along and biding their time and doing their thing, maybe? Please show us what you're actually made of or go away.

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Book Scandal, Brookline Booksmith, Coolidge Corner Theatre

April 23, 2008

Making Love With Norman
By Sharon Steel

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 you like reading about the fact that even Pulitzer-Prize winning authors dare their mistresses to write 50-page sex scenes.

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Book Scandal, Lit Links, Local

March 10, 2008

"The story is mine"
By webteam

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 means to the opressed classes of individuals whose identities are being stolen in the process.

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Book Scandal, Essays, Lit Gossip

March 05, 2008

Literary Lies: The Next Generation
By Sharon Steel

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 streets of L.A., or a member of the gang the Bloods. She grew up with her biological parents in Sherman Oaks, CA, and went to a private Episcopal high school.

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Book Scandal, Galley Cat, Lit Gossip

March 04, 2008

Liars, Promotions, and Profiles!
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.

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Book Scandal, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Idiotic Decisions

February 12, 2008

Anna Nicole Smith baby-drama bleeds into her latest unauthorized biography
By Sharon Steel

The New York Daily News reports today that the 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" online through her imprint, Corona. But authors Pol' Atteu and Patrik Simpson tell me they backed out of their arrangement with Gibson and are selling a separate "signature edition" through publisher Kings Road.

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Book Scandal, New York Daily News, Spin

February 04, 2008

Monday Round-Up: Spilled Milk
By Sharon Steel

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 Post's Page Six likens to something that sounds more like a concert tour:

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Book Scandal, Lit Gossip, Lit Links

July 30, 2007

Not all publishers heart Oprah!
By Sharon Steel

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 the only person who should be apologetic is Oprah Winfrey," who she says exhibited "fiercely bad manners — you don't stone someone in public, which is just what she did."

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