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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...
In this week's fishwrap we chatted with Mortified creator David Nadelberg about social wallflowers, accidental art, and his new romance-themed anthology. It's 275 pages filled with brutally humiliating tales of love and lust and youth. We cannot...
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...
Well, hello there! Yep, we're still here. So let's talk shop. The 39 Clues , a new series that Scholastic is billing as the successor to Harry Potter sounds remarkably dull . Collector cards? Why not just package the books with Pogs . More Paper...
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...