This is Matthew DiPasquale. He scored fives on ten separate AP exams. "Five" may also quantify his penis somehow, you can decide for yourself because Matthew DiPasquale was born in the second half of the eighties and so he quite understandably just founded a Harvard porn magazine whose virgin issue contains naked…
If there were no evolutionary benefit to fame, no one would chase it—or certainly not as doggedly as they do now. To be well-known gives many people (perhaps most people?) pleasure, and generally things that give us pleasure have their roots in something that at one point helped us. There could be no other reason for…
Shalom Auslander, whose memoir Foreskin's Lament is one of the hot contestants of the fall season, confronts the perils of impending fame in this excerpt, in which he is photographed for a magazine. His thoughts on the matter are pretty much note-perfect.
Today's piece in the Observer is essentially about how agent Eric Simonoff tried to make it seem like publishers were clamoring to buy the James Frey novel—while really they were just vaguely curious to see whether it was any good. It closes with a quote from the man who got an exclusive on the project and bought it…
"James Frey is a liar. His best-selling memoir, A Million Little Pieces, is a fraud. It is a seamless mass of falsehoods, told deliberately, for the purpose of making money." Back when Tom Scocca wrote those words in the Observer last January, it was nearly impossible to imagine the disgraced memoirist would ever sell…
Blogger Patrick "Bad News" Hughes's Diary of Indignities is in bookstores now, and hey! It got a writeup in the Gainesville Sun, Patrick's hometown paper! Let's take a peek and see what the critics had to say.
Remember little David Seaman? He's the helpful kid who wrote to us a while ago defending his pal Ned Vizzini against charges of assistant-hiring sleaziness, and who capped his email by asking us, "So how would we go about working in a subtle plug for me on Gawker?" Then he went and concocted a fake save Paris Hilton…
