Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger, who has built his career on carefully observed sports writing, used to be mad about what blogs and writing on the internet were doing to his craft. But recently, Mr. Bissinger has warmed up to the internet and taken to Twitter.
He told David Carr that Twitter is Read More
Whatever you may be doing on Friday night, chances are you’re not watching Friday Nights Lights on NBC. Now entering its fourth season, FNL (as it is known to devotees) is the best show on TV that no one watches. Last year, it was the 127th-most-watched program on network TV.
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At 6 feet 8 inches, basketball player Lebron James was obviously the tallest guy at his book party at Monkey Bar last night. One surprising thing, though, was that young literary agent/musician Luke Janklow is almost as tall.
Mr. Janklow, wearing a very clutch necktie and a bulging messenger bag, spent much of the evening Read More
Leon Neyfakh wonders who’ll replace departing Random House CEO Peter Olson. "Regardless of whom Bertelsmann CEO Hartmut Ostrowski and his 15-person supervisory board appoint to replace Mr. Olson, it is all but certain that Random House will undergo some radical changes." Plus: James Frey.
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A little after 6 p.m. at the Frederick P. Rose Hall, Condé Nast president Richard Beckman was sharing a drink—vodka, olives—with Condé Nast CEO Chuck Townsend. The two were discussing the same thing everyone in the lobby of Jazz at Lincoln Center at the Time Warner Center was talking about: What the National Magazine Awards Read More
Last night, Vanity Fair contributing editor Buzz Bissinger appeared opposite—well, to the side of—Deadspin.com’s Will Leitch on Bob Costas’ Bob Castas Now in a special "Live Town Hall Edition." The show was billed as "Taking stock of the sports media landscape, including the rise of internet bloggers and sports talk radio."
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