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Somewhere at the nexus of self-promotion/congratulation,
reflexive ass-kissing, and totally charming genuine enthusiasm is
New York Times metro reporter Jenny 8. Lee's new website. As
we learned a while back, her new book used to be called
The Long March of General Tso, but apparently that title was too confusing—there was
some concern that people would think it was a book about the Chinese military. Because people are stupid. Now it's called the
Fortune Cookie Chronicles, which should play better on the "synagogues and college campuses" Jenny plans on hitting on her book tour. Also, it seems that Jenny is an overachiever—her editor, Jon Karp, had contracted her for 90,000 words, and it looked like she was going to be 20,000 over.
But Karp told her not to worry, as they could just change the typesetting: "Perhaps you did something similar in high school when you had to turn in a term paper." Uh, right. We were always turning in papers that were
just too long. Anyway: Watch that space! She'll be posting cat pictures within weeks.
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
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