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Same Names and the City: Dan Abrams, Bill Keller, David Chang (Not the Ones...
Which Dan Abrams is this? (Getty Images) “Dan Abrams and I emailed a bit about possibly trading our Twitter handles,” said Dan Abrams, a writer/producer in New York, of an exchange with the ABC News...
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Bill Keller’s ‘Let’s Ban Books’ Column Deemed ‘Hilarious’ by NYT Writers
Keller: "Hilarious." After Bill Keller, the lame duck executive editor of The New York Times, wrote a column lamenting all the books written by Times writers, we thought some of these writers might be...
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How to Get a Better Reaction Than #AlloftheDiscussed
Breivick. Two things tend to be givens in the modern-day 24-hour news cycle: One, that something sad and tragic will invariably happen; and two, that when something sad and tragic happens, someone with...
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Mitt Romney’s Iowa Diet
While schmoozing around the Iowa State Fair today, Mitt Romney did more conspicuous eating-for-the-cameras than Calista Flockhart at a Yankees game. Food is a great prop, right? Hand-held fair food is...
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Amy Waldman's The Submission: Not a 9/11 Novel
Waldman. (Photo: Pieter M. van Hattem) Amy Waldman did not read most of the 9/11 novels before she started writing her own. DeLillo, Amis, Updike, Foer—she didn’t need to read them. Ms. Waldman was in...
View ArticleRefreshing the Paper of Record
Fiona Spruill was on the subway headed to work from her apartment on the Upper West Side when the first plane went in. Web production for The New York Times was her first job after graduating from Duke...
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Puppy Love for Jill Abramson
The news of buyouts the Times was just one element of the perfect storm of press that descended upon Ms. Abramson last week, including a Ken Auletta New Yorker profile and a deluge of critical...
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Vice Squad: Ray Kelly, Bill Keller & Fran Lebowitz Hit the Premiere of Veep
Armando Iannucci’s new HBO series Veep, which premiered on Tuesday night at the Time Warner Center, looks like a winner—more Biden than Bentsen. Starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the shaky-cam comedy is to...
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Roger Ailes Thinks The New York Times Is Just Jealous
Ailes Last week, Fox News chief Roger Ailes came under fire for characteristically incendiary remarks he made about The New York Times ("cesspool of bias," "a bunch lying scum") and other media...
View ArticleNuclear Mullahs? Really?
It’s a thought that ought to disturb the sleep of every decent person: The bloodthirsty haters in Iran armed with nuclear weapons and, let’s be clear about this, ready to use those weapons at any...
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