"Keith Gessen: won National Book Critics Circle award and wrote for the New Yorker before age 30.
You: wrote Everyone's Burning.
Who am I going to trust here?"
"You seriously cannot understand the difference between a $100 million deal with A RECORD LABEL that is an advance against future RECORD SALES, and a $100 million dollar deal with a CONCERT AND TOUR PROMOTER that is an advance against TICKET SALES AND MERCHANDISE?
Are you like one of those reverse dyslexics that can only see numbers but can't read words?"
"You know what else was hilarious was the way you'd try to curry favor with Republicans by imposing a right-wing spin on as many items as possible, and publishing the rancidly homophobic "cartoons" of Sean Delonas.
And wasn't it a hoot, how you used to antagonize sources and civilians who annoyed you by questioning their manhood and threatening them with physical violence?
Ah, good times."
"Let's see if I have the math right: a guy who figures out Gawker's total lack of a consistent voice or viewpoint, and its pageviews uber Alles mentality in ONE DAY, and then goes onto write features for a widely read mainstream media outlet is a "failure"...
What exactly constitutes "success" in the Gawker playbook?"
"So when the publishing house learned this woman was a liar, they did exactly what everyone's been demanding they do, and canceled the book before it could cause massive embarrassment."
urnidiot's ability to comment is not enabled.
urnidiot commented on Sloane Crosley: She's Everywhere Keith Gessen Wants to Be
http://gawker.com/5007061/urnidiot commented on A Drunken Sidewalk Scuffle In Virtual New York
http://gawker.com/5006790/urnidiot commented on A Drunken Sidewalk Scuffle In Virtual New York
http://gawker.com/5006790/urnidiot commented on MILF Island
http://gawker.com/5005560/urnidiot commented on Trash-Talking Reporter Fulfills Promise To Kick Times' Ass
http://gawker.com/5005420/urnidiot commented on Trash-Talking Reporter Fulfills Promise To Kick Times' Ass
http://gawker.com/5005420/urnidiot commented on Democrats Losing the Self-Important Socialite Vote
http://gawker.com/376787/urnidiot commented on Jay-Z's $150 Million Concert Deal Changes Nothing, Probably
http://gawker.com/5004966/urnidiot commented on Stuff Happening To Magazines, Say Magazine People Again And Again
http://gawker.com/375094/urnidiot commented on Malcolm Gladwelling at The Post
http://gawker.com/5004757/urnidiot commented on Ben McGrath Is More Than His Father's Son
http://gawker.com/370798/urnidiot commented on Failed Gawker Editor Wrote The Times' "Crash Course in Online Gossip"
http://gawker.com/368390/urnidiot commented on Another Filmmaker Flees Film
http://gawker.com/365861/urnidiot commented on Neal Pollack: Just Not Much Of A Writer
http://gawker.com/365611/urnidiot commented on Whoops
http://gawker.com/365162/urnidiot commented on Second Disaster Book For Editor Of Fabricator
http://gawker.com/5003593/urnidiot commented
//urnidiot commented on Lying Author's Ties To The Times Book Review
http://gawker.com/5003499/next »