• Turns out Cindy Adams was having another one of her senior moments. That whole thing about Nicole Richie chain-smoking wildly despite toting around a giant, protruding unborn baby? Never happened.
• The Arcade Fire to Sasha Frere-Jones: We steal shit from black people all the time!
• Check out the 20 most frightfully anti-gay Halloween costumes. Then imagine a calm, peaceful existence where rampant homophobia only exists but once a year.
• Coolio gets turned down by MTV; inks deal for upcoming reality show with Oxygen network instead.
• As it turns out, there are times when a Sam Adams isn't always a good decision.
Poor Deborah Solomon. When you admit to retroactively inserting questions that you should have asked (but didn't) of your interview subjects, you're pretty much just opening the door to a firestorm of media scrutiny, aren't you? Strangely, Jon Carroll of SF Gate doesn't much seem to care! Because she's a creative genius.
And while he sort-of implores us not to care, either, he does eventually concede, "In my interviewing experience, sometimes I would forget to ask a question and call the person up and ask him that question, but at least the question went with the answer, which is, like, the point of writing nonfiction."
Touché.
Last week the New York Press reported that Deborah Solomon fabricates her questions in the New York Times Magazine. After the jump, we investigate what she really asked this week to Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa.
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