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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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Nov 21, 2008 · posted by drew · Link · Respond

Swimmer girlfriend stealer Michael Phelps inked a book deal with Simon & Schuster's Free Press to write about his Olympics experience. It will have eight chapters.

Aug 22, 2008 · posted by david · Link · 1 Response

I wonder if Lil’ Kim knows that after Simon & Schuster gave her a $40,000 advance to write an novel in 2003, they turned around in 2005 and gave Foxy Brown, of all people, $75,000 for a memoir called Broken Silence, which I’m going to take a wild guess was meant to be about her sudden hearing loss.

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Jul 25, 2008 · posted by david · Link · 3 Responses