You thought a Joe the Plumber book was bad? Try bagged-lunch lady Ivanka Trump as this generation's Virginia Wolff, but you know, without all the depression and suicide and with way more money.
Or yeah, just like Sylvia Plath, if The Bell Jar had referred to the crystal wedding gifts bestowed upon her during her Jewish(?) marriage to one of the youngest newspaper titans in the world. And used words like "meritocracry."
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It's sad that at a time when Senator John McCain is doing the admirable thing and going back to his public duties, the tattered remnants of his campaign just can't seem to fade away.
Last week it was the whole Sarah Palin/Martin Eisendstadt hoax, then it was whether or not GOP apologist Joe Lieberman would be able to keep his place in the senate, and now we're into the real meat of the issue: what's going to happen to Joe the Plumber??
Don't worry guys, he's got it covered. Just like we originally guesstimated, Joe is getting his own book deal.
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Nate Silver, the attractive numbers-cruncher who made a splash this year by applying his baseball stats predictions to the outcome of the election, is getting a book deal with Penguin to the tune of $700k. Which is no small amount, but remember this kid is a bona fide genius, without all the annoying Asperger's characteristics that seem to accompany such mathematical dexterity.
On the other hand? Sarah Palin is in talks to ink a book, hopefully with a lot of copy editors on her side, to a sum
Ted Kennedy may not have been as popular or successful as his big brothers John and Bobby, but he did grow up with them. And that alone is worth a cha-ching book deal.
The Massachusetts Senator received an advance of more than $8 million from Grand Central Publishing to write an autobiography. That’s just behind Tony Blair, who bankrolled $9 million for his memoirs and Bill Clinton, who got $10 million.
But considering the public’s unquenchable interest in Camelot and its general apathy toward the Israel-Palestine conflict, Ted Kennedy got robbed.
If Facebook is worth $10 billion, than surely a book about Facebook is worth $50K.
That’s the reasoning at Harry N. Abrams, Inc, which gave "in the range" of a $50, 000 advance to Greg Atwan and Evan Lushing.
There will be no reporting, it’s just a book about how fun Facebook is.
Only one problem: The book appeals to people who don’t log off of Facebook long enough to read.
[NYO]
