· A witness, on Jayson Blair's rehab experience: "He talked in the past tense about his addictions. Everyone else was miserable and desperate. He was very happy, had a great sense of humor. He didn't seem to belong there. He was on the pay phone all the time talking business...He told me he had committed professional suicide, but he planned on getting a great book deal out of it. He said he was going to write about the hospital and the patients and all of that. He was constantly taking notes. I must have seen him go through three or four notebooks." [Page Six]
· Norman Mailer on Tom Wolfe: "Tom Wolfe pouts whenever he feels he is not being sufficiently honored by his literary brothers. So I say, yes, by all means, let's honor him. He may be the best boy-novelist we have ever had." Tom Wolfe on Norman Mailer: "They felt threatened by my idea of a big return to the naturalistic novel [with "A Man in Full"]. And I really do think it shook them up." Tina Brown on Michael Wolff: "Michael who?" [Page Six]
· NY Post columnist Steve Dunleavy was mugged at 3:15 AM yesterday "while he was passed out on a bench on the corner of W. 47th St. and Sixth Ave. near his favorite bar, Langan's. Why was he sleeping there? 'First of all, I was drunk...Second paragraph, I was comatose.' According to a newsroom spy, after returning to the Post, Dunleavy vomited near the metropolitan editor's desk." [NY Daily News]