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Flotsam & Jetsam
Peel Your Ears While I Vomit On The Table: Learn To Speak Hipster
11:14PM Ravi Somaiya | The word ‘hipster’ is wildly misused. It actually refers to cool jazz-era cats from the ’20s to the ’60s. You need to know your groceries, so check this collection of their genuine hipster slang. More »
People
4:26AM Hamilton Nolan | Tom Cruise! He is so crazy, what with the Scientology madness. It’s been so long since we heard examples of his craziness. Thank god there is a new tell-all book! In which Tom Cruise controls inanimate objects, with brainwaves. More »
Tom Cruise Controls Books And Bottles With His Mind
4:26AM Hamilton Nolan | Tom Cruise! He is so crazy, what with the Scientology madness. It’s been so long since we heard examples of his craziness. Thank god there is a new tell-all book! In which Tom Cruise controls inanimate objects, with brainwaves. More »
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Conspiracy Nuts Save Random House
12:09AM Hamilton Nolan | Nine short months ago, employees at Random House were silently urinating in their knickers after a new CEO seemed poised to drastically cut budgets. Now, they’re poppin bottles. What changed? Dan Brown! More »
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Bad, Big Books Keep Good People In Publishing Employed
5:24AM Gabriel Snyder | Your sneers mean nothing: Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol has already sold 1 million copies.
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Happy Dan Brown Day
3:01AM Pareene | Hooray! Today you can finally buy Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, a new interactive novel about a heroic professor with a mullet who fights Catholics and Masons. It will save publishing, and ruin Washington DC. More »
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Crazy British Weed Makes Kids Go Loco, Moms Write Books
2:12AM Hamilton Nolan | In the UK there’s a magical strain of skunk weed: It addicts teenagers, turns them psycho, prompts their mum to write a tell-all book, and then sends the nation into an uproar over said book. And it’s coming to America! More »
Big Screen
Julia Child, Recipes Ride Box Office Tide To Number One
7:44AM Andrew Belonsky | The late, great Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, has been given a cinematic boost, thanks to Julie & Julia. And she’s not alone. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Lord Of The Flies Scribe Once Attempted To Rape A Teenager
8:10PM the cajun boy | An upcoming biography on Nobel laureate William Golding says that the author tried to rape a 15-year-old fellow piano student named Dora when he was 18 and on break from his first year as a student at Oxford. More »
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As Exciting As Stroller Set Gossip Gets
1:26AM Brian Moylan | Amy Sohn’s new book, Prospect Park West, sure does have some some hot dish: Sean Penn’s bad in bed, Robert Downey Jr. cheats, and Kate Hudson is an evil bitch…in her mind. The celebs don’t care, but the New York Post does! More »
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