By Drew Grant 4/03 2:02pm

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Why Did Girls Downsize, Relocate Writers’ Room?

HBO’s critically acclaimed show Girls is mixing it up for Season 3 … and leaving a few names behind. Don’t start crying yet: it’s not any of the cast members. In an article last month by Joe Pompeo, a source spilled the beans that three of the show’s L.A. writers will not be returning to the already-small writers’ room. But why?

Well, relocation, to start. The eternal struggle between L.A. lifers and chronic New Yorkers: the oldest story in the book. But also, more things! Read More

By Foster Kamer 5/08/12 5:55pm

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

Celebrity Sightings In London - January 11, 2012

Why Pippa Middleton, Considering a Move to New York, Should Move to Brooklyn

Pippa Middleton—the sister-in-law of Prince William of England, and the sister of Kate Middleton, who is a goddamn princess, literally—is supposedly considering a move, possibly to New York City. She’s been missing from the London social circuit, her royal handlers are referring to her as the “Pippa Problem” for her hard-partying ways, and a move to Paris is likely nixed following an incident involving a French aristocrat she was with pointing a gun at a paparazzo.

She should move to Brooklyn. This is why: Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 5/02/12 11:25am

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As Writers Protest, Reality Producers Get Reality Check

On Friday morning, a group of picketers gathered outside the reality TV production company Atlas Media—among them, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka and Writers Guild of America East executive director Lowell Peterson. The protest was in support of negotiations ongoing with Atlas Media to provide its writers with health care. “When Workers Get Sick, Atlas Shrugs,” Read More

By Emily Witt 10/17/11 11:36am

Occupy Wall Street

Alice Walker supports OWS.

Occupy Writers Now Publishing Writers Too

Last week we reported on the launch of Occupy Writers, a web site where hundreds of writers, including Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Neil Gaiman and Alice Walker, have declared their public support for Occupy Wall Street. The site has expanded into literary content, having issued a call for participating writers to visit their local occupation and write about it: “a paragraph, a poem, a comic, a story, a vignette, anything goes.” Read More