Idiotic Decisions

March 31, 2008

He's Just Not That Into Your Library
By Sharon Steel

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? People who don't read at all, people who love Ayn Rand, people who dote on Harry Potter, people who worship The Da Vinci Code, people who are too pretentious, and people who aren't pretentious enough.

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Essays, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Idiotic Decisions

March 20, 2008

E-Books: Ew
By Sharon Steel

We love the Interweb! (Except when it tries to break our blog.)

But you know what we don't love? E-books. E-books are gross. It's like, we and nearly everyone else we know with day jobs spend hours upon hours staring at a screen and reading the Internet all day long. Everyone reads a different Internet. We like to read about literary gossip (um, duh), regular gossip, music, criticism, musical criticism, literary criticism, clothes, media, and more assorted esoteric shit.

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Idiotic Decisions, Lit Gossip, Publishing

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

October 12, 2007

Friday Literary Links: Ungrateful Edition
By Sharon Steel

The Washington Post has a story on the latest winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. Oh, those sweet-talking Brits:

Doris Lessing was out grocery shopping near her home in London yesterday when the Swedish Academy announced she had won the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature. She returned from the store to find a media circus, the wire services reported.

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Idiotic Decisions, Lit Gossip, Publishing

September 19, 2007

Leave James Frey ALONE!
By Sharon Steel

Too bad Chris Crocker and his not-fake crying and serious glitter eyeshadow didn't bother You Tubing a video about leaving poor James Frey alone a year ago. Oh well - just watch this and replace "Britney" with "James." So yeah, we thought we were over it but we're not. This week the Observer weighs in on Frey-gate and we can't turn away.

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Idiotic Decisions, NY Observer, On Writing

April 24, 2007

Bye Bye Book Reviews: Atlanta-Journal Constitution Book Editor Fired
By Sharon Steel

It's NOT okay.

We're really grouchy now. The Atlanta-Journal Constitution has fired longtime book editor Teresa Weaver and threatens to eliminate its book review section completely. Demoralizing beyond words? You bet. Sign a petition to protest the AJC's dim-witted move here. The Critical Mass blog has more on the subject.

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He's Just Not That Into Your Library
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Did you read Rachel Donadio's NYBR back-page essay about literary dealbreakers yet? Or her subsquent...

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