The rear garden at Michael’s seemed a fitting location to toast David Kirkpatrick’s new book The Facebook Effect on Monday. After all, the midtown restaurant is favored by the media elites, and a center of networking in all its forms.
“This is a perfect time for the launch of David’s book,” said host Read More
Facebook is not just an archive of embarassing juvenile exploits; no, Facebook itself actually perpetrates embarassing juvenile exploits. Fortune has posted an excerpt from David Kirkpatrick’s forthcoming The Facebook Effect, and aside from the whole starting-a-hugely-successful-company thing, most of Mark Zuckerberg’s activities in the site’s early days sound regrettable.
For example, Read More
David Kirkpatrick has a piece in The New York Times today about the impact John McCain’s five books have had on his self-image and political identity. The McCain we know today, Mr. Kirkpatrick writes, is one that came into existence around 1999, when he and his longtime speechwriter, Mark Salter, wrote his memoir, Faith Read More
Celebrities have had a rough summer. Ben Affleck is in alcohol treatment, and Mariah Carey has evidently suffered a nervous breakdown brought on by overwork, disappointing sales and the general pressure of celebrity. Julia Roberts went on David Letterman’s show to complain about the severe terms of stardom. “You sell your soul to the devil,” Read More
Celebrities have had a rough summer. Ben Affleck is in alcohol
treatment, and Mariah Carey has evidently suffered a nervous breakdown brought
on by overwork, disappointing sales and the general pressure of celebrity.
Julia Roberts went on David Letterman’s show to complain about the severe terms
of stardom. “You sell your soul to the devil,” Read More
