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On Smarm
Tom Scocca · 12/05/13 09:30AMLast month, Isaac Fitzgerald, the newly hired editor of BuzzFeed's newly created books section, made a remarkable but not entirely surprising announcement: He was not interested in publishing negative book reviews. In place of "the scathing takedown rip," Fitzgerald said, he desired to promote a positive community experience.
Circle Jerks: Why Do Editors Love Dave Eggers?
Nitasha Tiku · 10/02/13 05:30PMThe Circle, Dave Eggers’ new novel about an increasingly totalitarian social networking corporation, won’t hit shelves until next Tuesday. But the work of “pure speculative fiction,” which was excerpted on the cover of last week’s New York Times magazine, has already earned adulation from fans in high places (the Wall Street Journal called Eggers a modern-day muckraking Upton Sinclair) and accusations from critics on the margins—in particular Kate Losse, former ghostwriter to Mark Zuckerberg, who says Eggers ripped off her 2012 Facebook tell-all, The Boy Kings.
Glenn Beck and Joe Klein: Why Don't They Both Just Shut Up?
Hamilton Nolan · 04/20/10 12:57PMWhimsical Literary Journal Mourns Tragic Namesake
Pareene · 02/05/10 11:49AMReviewed: Dave Eggers' Remembrance of J.D. Salinger in The New Yorker
A New Yorker Commenter · 01/30/10 07:00PMYour Last Chance to Buy Gawker's James Franco-Endorsed Sarah Palin SlamBook: Tonight
GawkerCares · 12/03/09 08:33PMThe Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
Foster Kamer · 11/24/09 02:32PMTime Inc's Pre-Thanksgiving Layoffs
Hamilton Nolan · 11/24/09 01:18PMIt's the 2009 National Book Awards and These People Feel Fine
Foster Kamer · 11/19/09 04:54PMSpike Jonze, An Evil Stepfather and Black Dynamite Await Your Movie Dollars
Richard Rushfield · 10/16/09 05:24PMAfter a couple good weeks at the theaters, its a bit of a minefield awaiting your weekend entertainment. But no one ever said going to the movies was a coward's game; once more into the breach!
Everything Annoying in the Universe in One iPhone App
Ryan Tate · 09/22/09 04:09PMDave Eggers Confident that America's Literature-Devouring Youth Will Save Print
The Cajun Boy · 07/16/09 04:30AMThe Cover for Dave Eggers' New Book is Just Precious
The Cajun Boy · 06/18/09 03:16AMNew Dave Eggers Hurricane Katrina Book About to Drop
Richard Lawson · 06/09/09 03:15PMDave Eggers Reassures Us That Print Lives, Via Email
Hamilton Nolan · 06/03/09 10:23AMDave Eggers Makes Futile Gesture
Hamilton Nolan · 05/21/09 10:51AMHappy Birthday
cityfile · 03/12/09 06:42AMLiza Minnelli turns 63 today. Darryl Strawberry is 47. James Taylor is turning 61. Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is turning 62. Playwright Edward Albee is 81. Pete Doherty is 30. Author Dave Eggers is turning 39. Publicist Ken Sunshine is 61. Director Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious, XXX) is 60. Al Jarreau is turning 69. Actor Aaron Eckhart is 41. Novelist Carl Hiaasen is 56. SportsCenter anchor Steve Levy is 44. And the most famous male porn star in history, Ron Jeremy, is 56 today.
Whistling Dixie
Sheila · 06/04/08 04:03PMWe Are All Just Wittle Babies
ian spiegelman · 04/13/08 11:59AM"All the Sad, Young Literary Men has too many men, none of whom is particularly sad, literary or, for that matter, interesting." That's The L Magazine's Jonny Diamond on N+1 editor Keith Gessen's first novel. The interesting bit is how Gawker, you dear commenters, and the scribblers of Magical Brooklynism fit into the equation. "Gessen has rightly and eloquently lamented the impoverishment of intellectual discourse in 21st-century America, particularly in a New York literary scene that prefers whimsy to gravitas, adolescence to adulthood and typography to teleology." (Yeah, Gessen and his privileged band of bores are the answer. Okay, I'll stop.) "And if lit journal-cum-publishing house McSweeney's has come to stand (albeit unfairly so) as shorthand for this particular style of whimsy-sotted, Brooklyn-born preciousness, then online media gossip Gawker has served as its natural enemy, employing snark and irony to interrupt the daydreams of thousands of Michel Gondrys and Miranda Julys." Sounds good. But it isn't!