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To All The Sad Young White Media Interns Working For Free…
There's blind item is causing a mild shitstorm on Fashionista today about a "publishing house" that has been "quietly paying interns — but only if they're of a 'minority.'" Commenters immediately called out Hearst, which, what do you know, we called them up and it turns out that like myriad other media organizations recruits local minority interns* through a separate internship program with special terms and specifications, one of them happens to be a salary of $12 an hour. Now there is something to get enraged about. Not. Who planted this fucking item? Don't tell me, I don't want to know. This is for you. More »
media
How Not To Turn Alt-Weeklies Into Crappy Blog Clones
Ben Eason, the CEO of alt-weekly chain Creative Loafing—which declared bankruptcy this week—has a vision for the future of his publications. And that vision is to be like Huffington Post Chicago. Huh? Here's what he wants, and here's our free quality advice to him, before he fucks up some of the nation's best alt-weeklies for good: More »
books
What Does A Publisher Have To Do To Get Firebombed Around Here?
Remember how we tore into Random House relentlessly, calling them pussies for being too scared to publish Jewel of Medina, Sherry Jones's historical novel about Aisha, the child bride of Muhammad? Perhaps it's just self-fulfilling prophecy, but it looks like they may have been kinda-sorta right about that whole "it could incite acts of violence by a small, radical [Islamic] segment" thing: last weekend, four men were arrested after throwing a firebomb into the house of the book's British publisher, Martin Rynja. So who is this guy, anyway? Rynja has a colorful publishing history with controversial books: More »
media
Food Magazines Ready To Spice Up Poverty-Stricken America's Recipes
Yesterday we learned that our national diet is shifting towards cheap, simple meals like tomato soup and Kool-Aid because of the national economic meltdown. But that doesn't mean your tomato-Kool-Aid soup must be boring and plain! Publishers are flooding the market with a new crop of food magazines, just in time for our collective shift from a nation of gourmet snobs to a nation of bony, coupon-clipping scavengers. More »
O'Reilly's Advance
Bill O'Reilly got a $5 million dollar advance for his new book, A Bold Fresh Naughty Piece of Humanity Learns to Say 'No' To Drugs. But who's looking out for you? (Hint: Nobody, loser.) [NYP]
books
Annals of Self-Publishing: Drug Addict Horses
In case you're wondering what kind of gems comes out of the world of self-published childrens' books, this kid-book blog brought to light the story of LATAWNYA, the Naughty Horse, Learns to Say “NO” to Drugs. This vanity press tome warns of the dangers of what can happen when a group of horses decides to play "a smoking game and a drinking game." The best part? More »
gawker book club
Name-Checking Tatiana Boncompagni's Socialite Novel
Tatiana Boncompagni is a total socialite. How do we know? Because she's related to an Italian princess, her husband is the Hoover vacuum-cleaner heir, she's friends with uber-socialites Tinsley Mortimer and Fabiola Beracasa, and because she just wrote a socialite novel and works at a magazine. (Magazine jobs were lost ago lost to the rich. As such, Boncompagni pens a column for Conde Nast's Cookie, the magazine about children.) The Daily Intel interviewed her recently. Example: does she give money to panhandlers? "Double strollers don’t push themselves. So no, not usually." You're probably excited about the book, Gilding Lily. So we excerpted it by doing a search for the required keywords: Jimmy Choo, Louboutin, Bergdorf and Birkin—all the ingredients for a chick-lit society tome! More »
books
And Then Book Publishing Came to the End
Is the book industry dead (again), as it is often noted? Hope not! The latest death-of-print story, published in this week's New York, is about the retarded voodoo economics the industry is crippling itself with: More »
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