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Jack Shafer on Ian McEwan: Let the Plagiarist Burn in Hell

It's been unclear whether the whole Ian McEwan kerfuffle—he's been accused of borrowing a little too liberally in his novel Atonement from the memoirs of a British romance novelist, who worked as a Nightingale nurse during WWII—would...

3:05 PM on Mon Dec 11 2006, by Doree Shafrir, 242 views, Comment
http://gawker.com/news/ian-mcewan/jack-shafer-on-ian-mcewan-let-the-plagiarist-burn-in-hell-220923.php

Kinda racist author Martin Amis got called out in the Guardian for being kinda racist against Muslims by author Ronan Bennett. But in a letter this week, airport-y author Ian McEwan totes has his back. "You may not like what you hear, but reasoned...

11:00 AM on Wed Nov 21 2007, by Joshua Stein, 861 views, Comment
http://gawker.com/news/who-hates-whom%3F/-325384.php

Ian McEwan, the serious literary yet still sort of airport-y author of Atonement, whose books all hinge on one dramatic moment when something terrible happens tells the Wall Street Journal today that his books don't all hinge on one dramatic...

12:10 PM on Tue Nov 20 2007, by Emily Gould, 1,145 views, Comment
http://gawker.com/news/denials/-324882.php

Remainders: Fake News Day?

A side-by-side comparison of the plagiaristic transgressions of Ian McEwan and Kaavya Viswanathan. [ReadySteadyGo] The Catholic League goes all Bill O'Reilly on our holiday asses in an ad on the NYT op-ed page. [Catholic League] GQ names Pam and...

6:25 PM on Tue Nov 28 2006, by Doree Shafrir, 583 views, Comment
http://gawker.com/news/remainders/remainders-fake-news-day-217768.php

Agonizingly, Jonathan Lethem 'Parses' an Ian McEwan Stone

Well, you have to hand it to the Crystal Leth, at least he's bringing something better than plot summary to the increasingly torpid Times Book Review. Lethem has the cover review, of Ian McEwan's novel(la) On Chesil Beach, in this week's Summer...

2:00 PM on Sat Jun 2 2007, by jliu, 1,559 views, Comment
http://gawker.com/news/flapdoodle/agonizingly-jonathan-lethem-parses-an-ian-mcewan-stone-265415.php

Ex-Hooker Thanks You For Touching Her

Ashley Dupre, call girl to former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, thanked her MySpace fans "for taking the time to send me a bit of strength and inspiration... your words have touched me." She thanked her detractors for making "me push myself and want it...

7:15 AM on Tue Jun 24 2008, by Ryan Tate, 3,088 views, Comment
http://gawker.com/5019090/ex+hooker-thanks-you-for-touching-her

Who's Up for the Booker Prize This Year?

Here's the just-released longlist for the coveted Man Booker Prize for Fiction, awarded to novels whose authors are from the Commonwealth and/or Ireland. Previous winners include Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Ian McEwan's Amsterdam, and...

3:50 PM on Tue Jul 29 2008, by Sheila, 3,949 views, Comment
http://gawker.com/5030618/whos-up-for-the-booker-prize-this-year

Remainders: Madonna Downgrades to H&M

• Madonna signs a deal with H&M, under which she and all of her crew will be outfitted with a complete H&M wardrobe for when they're off-stage. You know, when no one will actually cares what they're wearing. [AP] • Harry Potter...

7:05 PM on Thu Jun 8 2006, by Jessica, 186 views, Comment
http://gawker.com/news/madonna/remainders-madonna-downgrades-to-hm-179459.php

Tina Brown Is The People's Publisher

This afternoon, as Book Expo America begins, Tina Brown and Doubleday hosted a luncheon at MoMA's The Modern to celebrate the release of The Diana Chronicles. In the back room, like dwarves, each of the seven tables came with an adorable author of...

2:36 PM on Fri Jun 1 2007, by Joshua Stein, 1,678 views, Comment
http://gawker.com/news/lunch-with-tina/tina-brown-is-the-peoples-publisher-265272.php

When A Girl Does A Boy Job

William Safire's former copy editor Jaimie Epstein, now a "freelance writer," took over his On Language column for this week's New York Times magazine and she is a big heap of "I rolled around in Daphne Merkin's hairshirt" nuts! It's like a mirage...

12:06 PM on Mon Jul 9 2007, by Choire, 3,493 views, Comment
http://gawker.com/news/on-language/when-a-girl-does-a-boy-job-276261.php