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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
