You SARS What You Eat
Bill Buford, food author and just all-around wacky personality, once wrote a book in which he ate a whole pig. This is a photo by Chris Buck of Buford carrying a pig. A swine, even.
Vintage flack Sloane Crosley: "Okay, maybe our new edition of Bill Buford's Heat isn't really waterproof after all." [NYM]
Media Bubble: Lickety Splits
• Newsweek stands resolute against Gawker's jeers that "while [its recent Annie Leibovitz] story tells of Leibovitz's life and her long-term friendship with the late Susan Sontag, it skips around the question of Leibovitz's sexual orientation." As long as we're jeering, how come there was no mention of Annie running…
BREAKING BREAKING BREAKING! Hot 'New Yorker' Festival ACTION ACTION ACTION
New Yorker Festival Tickets are on sale RIGHT NOW! Rush your ass over to Ticketmaster or risk being shut out of Sasha Frere-Jones' dance party! Do you really want to be the only one in your circle who doesn't see Bill Buford discuss pig butchery with Mario Batali? (Try not to shake Batali's hand; it may be catching…
