• The late night battle rages on: After losing ground to Letterman, Conan bounced back last night, and had a pretty solid first week overall. [THR, NYT]
• Boston-based Intercontinental Real Estate Corp. confirms that it has been talks with the New York Times Co. to purchase the Boston Globe. [BH]
• Stephen Colbert's…
Warren St. John, the dreamy NYT reporter and author of incongruous 'Bama football book Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer, has a heartwarming new book about refugee soccer players that is a smash hit. Why won't his own paper review it?
The distinguishing characteristic of a meme—even the fragile idea that there's an Alabama school of writers such as Howell Raines, Warren St John and Elizabeth Spiers—is that it's self-perpetuating. Which is the only explanation for the precocious literary ambition of 17-year-old Alex Niedenthal from Birmingham.
Wall Street Journal, ever the business paper, is making good on that by demanding royalties from books their reporters write based on research they originally did for the paper. The staff find the policy "ridiculous." But even if print is dying, book publishing is relatively viable. Journalists can make a lot more…
So this morning we learned that Warren St. John's non-relative Ron St. John is suing the Times reporter for putting a photo of Ron's RV, nicknamed "The Toad," on the cover of his Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer paperback and, in some doing, somehow behaved in ways that "are atrocious and utterly intolerable in civilized…
We were advised Friday afternoon that we might want to check out a certain lawsuit filed in the U.S. district court for the northern district of Alabama. At the end of the day Friday, we got our hands on the relevant complaint. And it turns out that stylish Time style reporter Warren St. John has been sued.
• For the remaining handful of you who still fail to comprehend why Fashion Week is the work of Satan himself, consider this: child runway models. You can go and say it's not JonBenet Ramsey, but we're not buying it. Does that little girl's face not tell of her suffering?! [Reuters]
• The Department of Child and…
And finally, on the front page of today's Arts section, Warren St. John finally brings us the JT Leroy denouement:
Warren St. John assesses the irresistable impulse to which married people succomb around single people: the obsessive compulsion to facilitate hook-ups, datesand hopefully marriageslest the poor wretched singletons spend the rest of their days rotting away in a miserable state of Alone. The motivations behind this…
