A note to our readers: In the process of assigning this post, we were informed that its author, historian Greg Grandin, was having his own Kissinger biography reviewed by the New York Times Book Review. While we were not informed of the date that the review would be appearing, it turns out to be in the same edition of…
Spy co-founder Kurt Andersen—whose jobs currently include 1. novelist, 2. New York mag monthly columnist, 3. "Studio 360" radio host, 4. IAC's "Very Short List" founder-consultant, 5. sometime blogger, 6. Random House editor at large—has "just inked a one-year deal to write two big articles for [fellow Spy…
Every publisher who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, their tendencies to nepotism, their "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" deals and publishing them without…
[David] Carr (whom I employed six years ago at Inside.com) is a quirky, entertaining, singular writer. I was pleasantly surprised when the paper of record hired and then promoted him to media columnist. But I was flabbergasted when they gave him a movie-awards blog (the Carpetbagger) and—the Times!—let him invent a…
