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April 14, 2008

Sloane Crosley Has The Career You Always Wanted
By Sharon Steel

Sometimes, alt-weekly dreams really do come true! Remember back in November, when we were obsessing over Sloane Crosley, Vintage/Anchor book publicist extraordinaire, who had a much-hyped, uber-blurbed book of personal essays coming out this spring?

I Was Told There'd Be Cake has arrived.

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Brookline Booksmith, Galley Cat, Lit Gossip

April 01, 2008

365 Days, 365 Ways
By Sharon Steel

A Year of Magical Thinking, illustration via the Observer

Sorry for the Observer-centric coverage of late, but Leon Neyfakh's piece in this week's Observer -- about what he calls the "'how I turned my life around in one year' mini-genre" of memoirs -- is a absolutely great read. Plus, that image above is totally iconic.

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NY Observer, Publishing, Spin

March 27, 2008

All the Sad Young Literary Hotties
By Sharon Steel

Keith Gessen: Author, broad-shouldered man.

The Observer is really doing some excellent shoe-leather reporting on sub-cultures these days. Last week's awkward musing on Urbane Tomboys flummoxed us (aren't these girls just hipsters who wear boy clothes, and what does this have to do with feminism?) but Doree Shafrir's story on Nerds of Steel this week is a little bit more our thing.

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Bookslut, Jezebel, Lit Gossip

March 21, 2008

Will White People Buy Stuff White People Like, the Book?
By Sharon Steel

Memed Out

Have you read Stuff White People Like? It's a very funny blog. We hope it will be a very, very, very funny book. Actually, it will probably have to be the funniest book in the entire fucking world to sell enough copies to justify the alleged $350,000 Random House advance, as reported by the Observer's Leon Neyfakh

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Everyone's An Author, Lit Gossip, NY Observer

February 22, 2008

"Titles change!"
By webteam

David Sedaris: we are fans, we must admit. Not of all of his work, but much of it. We missed the fact that the title of his latest book, set for a June publication date, keeps on changing. Leon Neyfakh at the Observer didn't, and asked Sedaris to please explain.

We can't help but sort of adore the fact that Sedaris loves the titles his boyfriend suggests and then, ultimately, rejects them.

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Lit Gossip, Lit Links, NY Observer

February 11, 2008

Modern Love Breeds Book Deals
By Sharon Steel

We realized long ago that we were not alone in the fact that we loved to hate Modern Love, a New York Times Sunday Style column equal to a 1,700-word cringe-fest. In this week's New York Observer, Doree Shafrir expertly dissects the column and its uncanny ability to breed book deals.

“I read the Styles section religiously, but my eyes glaze over the Modern Love column,” said an editor at Random House.

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Lit Gossip, Major deals, NY Observer

November 30, 2007

The Most Popular Publicist In The World
By Sharon Steel

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 had a collection of personal essays published this past April.

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Everyone's An Author, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Lit Gossip

October 01, 2007

Self-Published
By Sharon Steel

Penguin is teaming with Amazon.com for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. They're taking submissions through Nov. 5, and the winner receives a publishing contract and a $25,000 advance from Penguin! If only we had participated in last year's NANOWRIMO. We're a bit more preoccupied by short stories lately, although Stephen King's Sunday Book Review essay made us think twice:

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Lit Gossip, Lit Links, NY Observer

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

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