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Elizabeth Edwards Takes 'Shame Tour '09' To Today
Pareene · 05/11/09 09:47AMA New Endorsement For Kathy Freston?
cityfile · 05/07/09 11:14AM
Here's encouraging news for Kathy Freston: The hardcore vegan and dieting devotee may finally be able to let Oprah go as her most famous devotee now that it appears she may have found someone else willing to try her 21-day cleanse. Harvey Weinstein's wife, fashion designer Georgina Chapman, told a reporter at Freston's book party yesterday that she and Harvey "need to try" the cleanse. Sounds promising! And after all, it's not like diet endorsements don't run in the family! [NYO]
Ayelet Waldman: Bad Mother, Good Husband-Banger
Hamilton Nolan · 05/05/09 11:08AMJames Frey Implies He Knows Oprah's Big Secret
Ryan Tate · 05/05/09 07:15AMWhat Insane Message Does Glenn Beck Have for Children?
Ryan Tate · 05/04/09 08:23PMHero Pilot Offers You Library Book Amnesty
Ryan Tate · 05/03/09 10:18PMWhat Is Your Favorite Page of the 9/11 Coloring Book?
Pareene · 05/01/09 11:09AMTimes Suppressed News of William F. Buckley's Suicide Impulse
Ryan Tate · 04/27/09 02:19AMSean Hannity Has No Excuse Not to Get Waterboarded
Hamilton Nolan · 04/24/09 01:10PMPaula Froelich Involved in Secret Online Communist Code-Transmitting Cabal?
Hamilton Nolan · 04/23/09 04:23PMDavid Pogue Latest Victim of Twitter-Book Rage
Ryan Tate · 04/22/09 11:03PMLevi Johnston to 'Write' 'Book'
Pareene · 04/22/09 10:30AMA Failed Celebrity Blogger's Book: Tales of a Z-Grade Nothing
Richard Lawson · 04/20/09 01:42PMEven Hedge Fund Wives Have Their Limits
cityfile · 04/20/09 12:57PM
Jill Kargman's new novel, The Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund, was written before the economy came crashing down, which explains why if you pick up a copy—it came out last week—you may feel like you've been transported back in time to the middle of 2006, when everyone walking down Park Avenue was full of optimism and no one had any problem spending $50,000 on a two-year-old's birthday party. Things have changed a bit since then, although Kargman isn't allowing the unfortunate timing of her novel derail her PR campaign. Quite the opposite, in fact: Her book party this evening will feature a blood-red cocktail called the "Nightmare On Wall Street," and she's using the financial crisis to detail how some of the city's richest women have been coping with the downturn.
Xkcd's Rebel Book Deal
Ryan Tate · 04/20/09 02:16AMAuthor J.G. Ballard Dead at 78
Ryan Tate · 04/19/09 07:07PMFinally, Single Women Learn the Error of Their Ways
cityfile · 04/15/09 08:10AM
You know what the world desperately needs? Another hastily-written, bandwagon-jumping dating manual that details all the ways in which single women must lie, fake, manipulate, and tie themselves up in knots so that some guy might consent to be their boyfriend. So yay for Rachel Greenwald—a Harvard MBA, no less—who has scraped what we hope to God is the final layer from the bottom of this tragic genre's barrel with the imaginatively-titled Why He Didn't Call You Back. Go on, aren't you dying to hear?