Gossiping about a fired gossip columnist's book about the gossips he worked with? So meta, they should just call it jossiping.

Ripped from the Gatecrashing pages of the New York Daily News, Ben Widdicombe brings us preview of Ian Spiegelman's about-to-premiere book, "Welcome to Yesterday."

Set in the two days preceding his Page Six axing, Spieglman takes stabs at everyone in the office, from Paula Froelich ("I could've shaved her blonde head right there in the office") and Richard Johnson (with "a mischievous penchant for investigating the conspiracies of any syphilitic who managed to dial his number in the middle of the night") to Col Allen ("Like so many editors, he clearly hadn't worked a reporter's phone since college, if ever.") and Lloyd Grove, (understandably).

Joked one Miramax insider of the Robert Harris character: "I don't know why he didn't just call him Jichard Rohnson."

How easily the folks in this industry will turn around and try to slash each others eyes out! In a fight between Froelich and Spieglman, however, you know Paula would so kick ass. Lloyd Grove, on the other hand, might want to stick with his pen for a sword.

Canned Postie fires back [Ben Widdicombe, Gatecrasher]