Buried in Lynn Hirschberg's NYT mag profile of Random House CEO Peter Olsonpart of which consists of Olson visiting the Book Expo in LA and gleefully identifying people he has firedis a bit about a book proposal Olson's wife Candice (Carpenter) Olson was shopping around about their relationship. Candice is the ex-CEO of iVillage, and perhaps one of the most notorious dot com-mers of the Silicon (try not to laugh when you say it) Alley heydey. Hirshberg's description of a passage from the proposal: "on their first date 'on the carnival-like streets of the lower East Village,' Candice writes, Olson 'slowly lifted his shirt' and showed her his scars. 'Am I alone in thinking that well-placed scars on a gorgeous guy are among the most erotic things in life?' she goes on. 'Especially when the scars run across washboard abs and involve a closer inspection of the perfect biceps that areI admit it, I admit itmy weakness and fatal attraction.'"
Nothing random [NYT Mag]