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Did you read Rachel Donadio's NYBR back-page essay about literary dealbreakers yet ? Or her subsquent Paper Cuts blog post , in which she asked Times readers to state their own literary dealbreakers? So, what are the most common literary dealbreakers...
Zadie Smith: "Put it in a drawer." One of PopSerious 's correspondents was at a lecture at Columbia University yesterday, where writer Zadie Smith ( White Teeth ) gave a lecture on "Feeling Fraudelent." Below, some wise words by...
© Rachel McPherson You know how sometimes, someone says something that makes your face hot and your hands ball into fists of fury and your face go into perma-scowl only to realize you have let them get away with it? We do! Oh, we do, we do, WE DO! We...
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...
Okay, we feel badly for calling out Jezebel about the whole bitter thing -- it's not all the time! it's just about certain stuff! and we understand how they feel because excessive shallowness is annoying! -- but anyway, we are kissing their collective...
Image via the NY Observer Oh, GOD. Oh god oh god oh god. I have so many conflicting thoughts and emotions swirling over Leon Nefakh's latest 3-page New York Observer profile. It's about Sloane Crosley, a 29-year-old Vintage book publicist who...
