The news of buyouts the Times was just one element of the perfect storm of press that descended upon Ms. Abramson last week, including a Ken Auletta New Yorker profile and a deluge of critical slobbering over her recently released “dogoir,” The Puppy Diaries. It was reviewed in the Thursday arts section and in The Read More
Wednesday, July 27
Clay Date
Summer’s caught up with us—and we know, we complain about it every week, but the aggregate effect of sweating this much packs a more crippling punch than Wendi Murdoch! We find ourselves regressing to childhood: leaning hard on the chocolate-frozen yogurt handle at 16 Handles, wearing Read More
Biographers: Yes. (“If you believe that God is in the details — and all biographers do,” says Kitty Kelley, “then Twitter will be a godsend!”)
William Styron: Yes. (“The author of Sophie’s Choice and Lie Down in Darkness has been tweeting [and re-tweeting] for more than a week…. Styron has been Read More
A new collection of short fiction—including the first chapter of an unfinished novel—is coming from the late William Styron, according to InkWell Management agent Michael Carlisle.
Mr. Carlisle, one of the founding partners of InkWell and a close childhood friend of Styron’s kids, said the collection, like the rest of Styron’s work, will be Read More
As Saving Private Ryan continues at the top of the box office–ending its fourth week there on Aug. 16–Dreamworks SKG partners Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen must be increasingly glad that Steven Spielberg is part of their troika. With Mr. Spielberg obligated to work for the financial betterment of the studio he helped found, Dreamworks Read More
