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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The New York Daily News reports today that t he 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"...
This Thursday Styles piece about beauty bloggers and swag is basically just repackages a million-year old story about beauty editors (or fashion editors, or whatever kind of editor) and the swag that they're inundated with on a regular basis. What's...
Today, researching a story about celebrity comebacks sent us scurrying back in time for an Internet refresher course on the history of spin and PR. Edward Berneys , the "father of public relations," was responsible for originating the idea that...
