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March 31, 2008

He's Just Not That Into Your Library
By Sharon Steel

Did you read Rachel Donadio's NYBR back-page essay about literary dealbreakers yet? Or her subsquent Paper Cuts blog post, in which she asked Times readers to state their own literary dealbreakers?

So, what are the most common literary dealbreakers? People who don't read at all, people who love Ayn Rand, people who dote on Harry Potter, people who worship The Da Vinci Code, people who are too pretentious, and people who aren't pretentious enough.

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Essays, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Idiotic Decisions

March 27, 2008

All the Sad Young Literary Hotties
By Sharon Steel

Keith Gessen: Author, broad-shouldered man.

The Observer is really doing some excellent shoe-leather reporting on sub-cultures these days. Last week's awkward musing on Urbane Tomboys flummoxed us (aren't these girls just hipsters who wear boy clothes, and what does this have to do with feminism?) but Doree Shafrir's story on Nerds of Steel this week is a little bit more our thing.

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Bookslut, Jezebel, Lit Gossip

March 26, 2008

Wise Words from Zadie Smith
By Sharon Steel

Zadie Smith: "Put it in a drawer."

One of PopSerious's correspondents was at a lecture at Columbia University yesterday, where writer Zadie Smith (White Teeth) gave a lecture on "Feeling Fraudelent." Below, some wise words by the author. We love this kind of thing. So far, the best advice about writing we ever got was "Sometimes you just have to puke over the side and keep rowing."

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How to Win Friends and Influence People, Lit Gossip, On Writing

March 21, 2008

Will White People Buy Stuff White People Like, the Book?
By Sharon Steel

Memed Out

Have you read Stuff White People Like? It's a very funny blog. We hope it will be a very, very, very funny book. Actually, it will probably have to be the funniest book in the entire fucking world to sell enough copies to justify the alleged $350,000 Random House advance, as reported by the Observer's Leon Neyfakh

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Everyone's An Author, Lit Gossip, NY Observer

March 20, 2008

E-Books: Ew
By Sharon Steel

We love the Interweb! (Except when it tries to break our blog.)

But you know what we don't love? E-books. E-books are gross. It's like, we and nearly everyone else we know with day jobs spend hours upon hours staring at a screen and reading the Internet all day long. Everyone reads a different Internet. We like to read about literary gossip (um, duh), regular gossip, music, criticism, musical criticism, literary criticism, clothes, media, and more assorted esoteric shit.

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Idiotic Decisions, Lit Gossip, Publishing

March 12, 2008

The Dark Side of Manners: Lady Snark's Guide to Common Discourtesy
By Sharon Steel

© Rachel McPherson

You know how sometimes, someone says something that makes your face hot and your hands ball into fists of fury and your face go into perma-scowl only to realize you have let them get away with it?

We do! Oh, we do, we do, WE DO! We have been there again and again, only to lie awake at night thinking of The Brilliant Things We Ought To Have Said.

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How to Win Friends and Influence People, Lit Gossip, Recommended Reading

March 10, 2008

"The story is mine"
By webteam

Daniel Mendelsohn (The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million) wrote what we thought was a depressing but super-smart Op-Ed piece in the Sunday Times. He makes excellent points about the fake-memoir trend, but even more important, he explains what it means to the opressed classes of individuals whose identities are being stolen in the process.

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Book Scandal, Essays, Lit Gossip

March 05, 2008

Literary Lies: The Next Generation
By Sharon Steel

RECALLED.

Everyone is all in a huff over the "Margaret Jones" scandal. Her True Life story, Love and Consequences: A Memoir of Hope and Survival, was a fraud. She is not part Native American. She was not an abused foster child living on the streets of L.A., or a member of the gang the Bloods. She grew up with her biological parents in Sherman Oaks, CA, and went to a private Episcopal high school.

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Book Scandal, Galley Cat, Lit Gossip

March 04, 2008

Liars, Promotions, and Profiles!
By Sharon Steel

Sloane Crosley: The new Dorothy Parker, some say -- or just our new Imaginary Friend

Kelefa Sanneh, our favorite New York Times pop music critic, is going to be a staff writer at The New Yorker! Now he and the S.F.J. can totally duke it out over the Lil' Mama and Britney coverage. Loving it! Also moving to 4 Times Square is New York magazine writer Ariel Levy, of whose work we are also big fans.

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Book Scandal, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Idiotic Decisions

March 03, 2008

The New Yorker reviews Gossip Girl
By Sharon Steel

Er, more specifically, JANET MALCOLM has reviewed Gossip Girl, and we're talking about the book series by Cecily von Ziegesar, not the television series by Josh Scwhartz. Oh, we are completely losing our shit over this review. It is three pages long online, although we would be so happy if it were longer, and that Malcolm did succumb against her own will and "go on telling Blair stories until they are gone.

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Lit Links, Publishing, The New Yorker

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