Things Apparently as Tough for Alex Kuczynski, Author, as for Alex Kuczynski, Speller
The spelling-bee news reporter earlier apparently moved a reader to conduct some Alex Kuczynski reseach today. How, he wondered, has her career as an author fared?
Slowly, it seems:
• New York Post, Page Six, Oct. 7, 2002: "ALEX Kuczynski had a lot to celebrate last Thursday. The Times style writer has inked a $500,000 deal with Doubleday to write a book about women and power."
• The New York Observer, Sept. 29, 2003: "Alex Kuczynski ... is currently at work on a book for Doubleday about women and power."
• Publishers Weekly, Aug. 8, 2005: "Beauty Junkies: Inside Our Obsession with Cosmetic Surgery (Dec., $24.95) by Alex Kuczynski examines today's obsession with aesthetic perfection and casts a wary eye on cosmetic enhancements."
• Houston Chronicle, Aug. 28, 2005: "September nonfiction.... In 'Beauty Junkies' reporter Alex Kuczynski pokes her nose into the $ 15 billion cosmetic-surgery industry."
• Author search for "Kuczynski" on randomhouse.com/doubleday, today: "Sorry, we were unable to find any books that match your criteria. Please search again."
• Author search for "Kuczynski" on Amazon.com, today:
2008?! That can't be right. But if it is, it's a sacrilege.
