· Those darn "NBC types" are so easily upset by what they perceive to be conflicts of interest in The Washington Post. [Lowdown]

This week in New York magazine's endlessly amusing Look Book, we meet "dabbling" artist Peter Hayn, who gives Anna Wintour a run for her money with his fifteen fur coats (better ones, he claims, would be worn on Madison Avenue). Not content to merely let Hayn speak for himself, Intern Alexis rounds up Elle's Jenny Feldman, culinary wizard Rupa Bhattacharya, and Harper Collins slave Athena Schindelheim for commentary. After the jump, our weekly analysis of New York's weekly foray into the style swamp.

Consider this a rare foray into the world of journalism biz service journalism for us. Over at The Black Table, Jason Notte, one of that site's "Black List' contributors, has a pretty good suggestion for editors who send out rejection letters to writers:

Vanity Fair pays tribute to the late Marjorie Williams, whom they call "our own Jane Austen on the Potomac," by reprinting three of her profiles on the magazine's website. Williams has also been dubbed "Washington's most dangerous profiler," but this snippet of her 1999 piece on Brian Williams, Man of the Hour shows more affection than danger:

USA Today hips us to a new musical storage and playback machine from Apple (makers of the famous computer machines).This incredible device can hold thousands of songs. And get this: it's portable.

From today's Times' team coverage of the Michael Jackson trial:

Front Row, the unauthorized biography of Vogue editor Anna Wintour is hitting the shelves, and there's some choice insight into her dieting history:

It's with a heavy heart that we report that pundit and headgear aficionado Andrew Sullivan is retiring from blogging. For the most part.

Is "recovering" anorexic Mary-Kate Olsen really a wise suggestion for an ideal body? If it weren't on the cover of Teen Vogue, we'd be shocked and appalled at this blatant disregard for good taste but, considering the source, we're not too surprised. Just a little disgusted, really. On the bright side (and we're desperate to find one), maybe Mary-Kate will feel a little better about herself. Even if it's at the cost of the collective youth's self-esteem, right?
Teen Vogue
Earlier: Seventeen Crusades To Eliminate All Overweight Readers

FOX 411's Roger Friedman expends some column inches today examining Charlize Theron's reading habits.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
New York Times

· To hell with "sensitivity": Harper's reprints an article from 1890 (when Lewis Lapham was just an associate editor) about Nasr'-ed-Din El Khojah, the Muslim world's top comedian. [Harper's]

· Batten down the hatches! The fashionistas are coming! Fashion week starts this weekend; prepare yourself. [Style.com]
· "They pick on me all the time. After this, they won't want to give us any more press at all." Oh, hahahaha. [NYT]
· Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner has "officially shit the bed." [MusicRevu]
· British people: obsessed with weather. [Rising Slowly]

In his farewell to the NY Times on Sunday, former entertainment reporter Bernard Weinraub offered up a litany of his Hollywood sins. He admits to some initial starfucking (hey, wouldn't you ditch Billy Bob Thornton to squeeze a quote out of Cameron Diaz?), falling asleep while interviewing Jim Carrey (mortifying!), and personal shame over driving his crappy beater to meet rich studio types (doubly mortifying!). In one anecdote, Weinraub admits to falling for the estimable charms of Jeffrey Katzenberg, who predictably dropped him like a dead kitten once he finally abandoned the movie beat after his marriage to rising studio head Amy Pascal proved too complicated for the Times:

Holy Metrimony [Sports Illustrated, CNN]
Seinfeld - The Outing [TVTome]

Syndicated right wing harridan—and calendar girl—Michelle Malkin is more than just a defender of internment, she also looks out for the little people. Unless they're in wheelchairs. And they've been hit by SUVs.

The story, in its entirety thus far:

Yesterday was Iraq's first free election in 50 years, a momentous occasion for that nation and its neighbors, as well as for the U.S., whose efforts at nation-building have been—how shall we put this?—very bad thus far.

From the NY Post's Sunday story on esteemed film critic Roger Ebert:

Because a grisly murder on the corner of Clinton and Rivington simply isn't dramatic enough: