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9:01AM Jess McGuire | REET REET REET! It’s been a while since I’ve turned to Defamer Australia’s award winning Two Day Old News Desk™ team to break a story – well, at least not in an official capacity. So please make them (me? I am sort of confused right now) very welcome as they thoroughly investigate the fascinating world of Kathy Lette’s word play. More »
Kathy Lette Urges A Public “Girl-Cott” Of Male Authors
9:01AM Jess McGuire | REET REET REET! It’s been a while since I’ve turned to Defamer Australia’s award winning Two Day Old News Desk™ team to break a story – well, at least not in an official capacity. So please make them (me? I am sort of confused right now) very welcome as they thoroughly investigate the fascinating world of Kathy Lette’s word play. More » 
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Conde Nast’s Big Bad Gamble
12:57AM Hamilton Nolan | This year, Conde Nast hired McKinsey, folded several magazines, and instituted across-the-board budget cuts and layoffs. Clearly, the fancy days are over. Right? No, says the company. This is just a temporary blip. More »
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Conde Nast’s Last Month Being Rich
11:44PM Hamilton Nolan | Weep, struggling members of the creative underclass, for your secret aspirations are drawing to a close: this may be the very last month of Conde Nast, Luxury Version. Coming soon: Conde Nast, Wailing Version. More »
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Conde Nast: 25% Cuts, Layoffs Loom. Except At The New Yorker!
11:33PM Hamilton Nolan | For weeks now, a scary number has been floating through the hallowed halls of Conde Nast: 25%. That’s how much the gossipmongers speculated McKinsey would chop the company’s budget. Evil rumours! Now it looks like that frightening number was correct. More »
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Will The Weakest Survive At Conde Nast?
12:15AM Hamilton Nolan | Conde Nast! Every scrap of news about it is precious, because everyone’s afraid that this McKinsey review is just an excuse to gut the once-fancy magazine empire. But! Conde’s weakest magazines might even make it through this alive. 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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Time Inc. Folds Style & Design
12:14AM Hamilton Nolan | No extra fashion ads to go around any more. Conde Nast folded its annual “Fashion Rocks” supplement months ago; now, Time Inc, is folding its quarterly fashion mag Style & Design, just before Fashion Week. Four layoffs. Tough times. [NYP]
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