Manhattan party girl.
The new People, the one with the totally not fat Jennifer Love Hewitt on the cover, features a very kind review of The Kept Man
Written in relaxed yet fresh prose, Attenberg's debut is unabashedly emotional, refreshingly devoid of New York City cynicism and tenderly funny.
Really, a writer could not ask for anything more.
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I think we're running the contest to win a free galley just one more week, maybe a bit longer. I am kind of wanting pictures of Man posters under the Christmas tree. Or near a Menorah. A girl has got to dream. (As a reminder, here is the short film that started it all.)
My favorite contest entries of the day are totally NSFW and totally AWESOME.
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And ladies, he's single!
Remember, if you don't have a Flickr account, go ahead and send them to me and I'll post them and make sure you get a galley. More nudity please. Or holiday cheer. Either one will please me.
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When teevee writers go on strike they have so much free time on their hands they can, at long last, fulfill their dream of being a blogger. Over at Salt in Wound, my friend John Levenstein, along with my sweet Bernie Boscoe and a bunch of other writer/artist types are having their way with the internet.
The latest post reads:
The WGA is starfucking so compulsively, so thoroughly, that they've already run through all the actors, and have now turned to balling themselves. Yesterday at CBS Radford, my picket line ground to a crawl so ninety-one year-old Sherwood Schwartz (creator of Gilligan's Island and the Brady Bunch) could take a lap with his son and grandson (all in the business!). There was a big announcement, and then they slowly, ceremonially (painfully) circled one time, before setting up off to the side for interviews and photo ops. If this powerful image of institutionalized nepotism doesn't bring management to its knees, I don't know what will.
There's some seriously funny stuff to wade through over there. John used to write for "Arrested Development" to give you a little hint.
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This weekend: parties! Hope you are going to some too. Next week I'll hopefully have some more reviews and I think I'll start introducing you to some of the characters in the book and excerpt some of the finer moments.
Happy Hannukah!
(12/07/07)