Neal Pollack summarizes East of Eden so you don't actually have to read it: "Eden, the novel's heroine, is a low-level editorial assistant at Gloss, a fashion magazine for the 'medium-breasted contemporary woman' owned by the Candy Nast media empire. Her boss, Emma Winter, the toast of Manhattan, is a sharp-tongued ballbreaker with a penchant for extinguishing cigarettes in her subordinates' eyes. Eden plots to kill her, or at least to write tender short stories for The New Yorker. While Eden's at work, her boyfriend, Chris Fray, struggles with with the twin demons of ego and heroin addiction and doesn't give a fuck what anyone thinks about him, especially not all the assholes who put less meaning into their whole novels than he does into one sentence." It's official: Neal has been completely Gawkerized. Soon he'll probably be doing interviews with Kurt Andersen and selling out to some big publishing house.
East of Oprah [Neal Pollack]