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Steve Almond Is A Hypocrite And A Bad Reader

"God bless you!" wrote Steve Almond's editor Julia Cheiffetz to me, after we ran a long excerpt from Steve's new essay collection, effectively shoving the book into the consciousness of at least the 6,966 readers who clicked on the post and who may not have previously known of its existence. Today, Steve writes on the Huffington Post that "Until a few weeks ago, I'd never paid much attention to Gawker. I had a vague sense that they were a gossip website that had something to do with New York. Then my editor sent me a link to a post they wrote about me. As it turned out, they'd been talking shit about me for a while." More »

3:20 PM on Wed Oct 17 2007
By Emily Gould
6,400 views, 134 comments

Latest by zkemeny: Dammit people, Alan Thicke is right! Why are wasting our time on this drivel?? If only Gawker had a site dedicated to political issues, one that dealt with the more substantive business of Washington and global politics in a lighthearted more »

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Steve Almond's New Book Will Change The World

So author and daddyblogger Steve Almond's new collection of mostly previously published essays, Not That You Asked: Rants, Exploits and Obsessions, doesn't just contain a deranged yet oddly bet-hedgey open letter to Oprah. It also contains secret wisdom that will change America, reopening our eyes to the pleasures of literature and eliminating our dependence on lowbrow culture! And maybe curing AIDS and solving poverty! At least, that's what Steve seemed to be implying in the thank-you note he sent to the Random House staff who worked to publicize his book. More »

12:20 PM on Mon Sep 17 2007
By Emily Gould
3,120 views, 13 comments

Latest by Steve Almond: Gawking Ourselves to Death on The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed: Until a few weeks ago, I'd never paid much attention to Gawker. I had a vague sense that they were a gossip website that had something to do with New York. Then my editor sent me a link to a more »

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Steve Almond To Oprah: "I Don't Give A Shit How Many Books You Sell"

Former journalist and current fiction writer Steve Almond writes a letter to Oprah in his new book, (Not that You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions, which was published this week. It's called "How This Book Became an Official Oprah Book Club™ Pick," and it's one of those "Kidding! Haha. Ok, not kidding! Okay, kidding!" type of jokes. It is pretty bonkers. More »

2:40 PM on Thu Sep 13 2007
By Emily Gould
8,765 views, 34 comments

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Steve Almond Gets All Sanctidaddious

On his Babble.com blog, bechesthaired author Steve Almond continues to unravel the mysteries of parenting. This week, he explores his guilt about inadvertently allowing his infant daughter to watch a shootout on The Wire:
it took watching my daughter's reaction to one show to recognize how completely horrible and anti-human the images are. I keep seeing her eyes blinking, her head snapping back, the twisting of her mouth into a terrified frown.
What was even scarier than her reaction, though, was our reaction. I mean, we tell ourselves we're these gentle citizens. But we didn't bat an eye watching people shoot each other. It's like our natural human reaction - to blink, to be fearful and upset - had been eroded. We've become so habituated to manufactured violence that we've forgotten what it's supposed to portray.
I know people get all hacked off when I talk politics on this blog, so I'll step away from the bullhorn. I realize, after all, that we can't shelter Josie from this country's popular culture forever. Eventually, she'll see lots and lots of fake murders.
But here's what I'm getting at: shouldn't we try?
Personally, if we were Steve Almond, we'd be more worried about what happens when the kid learns to read (particularly that one menstrual sex-heavy short story in My Life in Heavy Metal), but that's just us.

Baby Daddy: Baby's First Body Count [Babble]

9:20 AM on Mon Jan 8 2007
By Emily Gould
509 views, 10 comments

Latest by caustin: What? An infant can't tell what the hell is on the TV. Oh no, "blinking eyes!" more »

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Steve Almond's Daddy Blog: Watch Your Back, Neal Pollack!

More in the "a generation of self-consumed male hipsters have suddenly discovered parenthood, and we'll be forced to listen to them for years on end" department: did you know that author Steve Almond, formerly content merely to sit back and vindictively sling mud at bloggers, now has a pro blog of his very own? It's on new Nerve spinoff site Babble, and it's exactly as self-conscious and caught up in the tired 'bragging about how cool I used to be and now I'm not, but it's ok because parenthood is a Higher Calling than coolness' thing as you'd expect it to be. Witness this scintillating tidbit: "So I guess that's what we're doing: we're enjoying this time. Not doing much work. Not going out at all. Just sitting around worshipping our kid. It rules." More »

11:00 AM on Tue Jan 2 2007
By Emily Gould
825 views, 13 comments

Latest by In Which We Reinvent The Singles Scene For Your Benefit on This Recording: AYO, EMOSOGYNY by Molly Lambert So we just now saw the 2007 edition of Forbes’s (really silly) yearly list of the Best Cities For Singles. more »