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| Gawker Book Club: "Global Capitalism Has, At Present, No Better Ambassador Than David Beckham" |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 3:20 pm |
| Tags: Becks, Books, Gawker Book Club, Ghetto Chavulous, Global Capitalism, Posh, Victoria Beckham |
| How very, very wrong we were to dismiss insanely prolific celebrity biographer Andrew Morton's "Posh and Becks" out of hand! It turns out that the book contains a trenchant critique, not only of the... |
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| Gawker Book Club: 'Jealous Husband Returns In The Form Of A Parrot' By Robert Olen Butler |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 4:10 pm |
| Tags: Gawker Book Club, Peanut, Robert Olen Butler, Ted Turner, They Just Hand Out Those Pulitzers Like Halloween Candy, We Keep Our Sexual Parts Hidden We Parrots |
| Sure, we all know that Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer-winning author whose author wife, Elizabeth Dewberry, just left him to become one of media mogul Ted Turner's girlfriends, prompting him to... |
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| Gawker Book Club: Courtney Thorne-Smith IS The Author Of The Next Great American Celebrity Novel |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 2:35 pm |
| Tags: Books, Courtney Thorne Smith, Gawker Book Club, Great Expectations |
| "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins." "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." "It is a truth... |
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| Out Of This World: Get Ready For The 'Bass Ackwards' Book Club |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 4:30 pm |
| Tags: Books, Gawker Book Club, Lance Bass, Out Of This World, The Gays |
| Excellent news, people. Lance Bass, who refers to himself as LBeezy, writes on his MySpace blog that "Howdy!! I just got the cover from my publisher of my book! It is under my pics because I dont... |
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| Gawker Book Club: Courtney Thorne-Smith Is Funny And Smart, For An Actress! |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 4:15 pm |
| Tags: Courtney Thorne Smith, Eat Your Heart Out Carrie Fisher, Gawker Book Club |
| We continue to be impressed by "Outside In," the unghostwritten debut of one of America's most beloved television actresses, albeit in the same way that we were impressed when we realized that the... |
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| Gawker Book Club: Courtney Thorne-Smith Understands Suffering |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 11:40 am |
| Tags: Anorexia, Books, Courtney Thorne Smith, Gawker Book Club |
| As we continue to enjoy the unghostwritten literary debut of one of America's most beloved television actresses, we learn a lot about pain and human nature and our heroine, Kate Keyes-Morgan. One of... |
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| Gawker Book Club: Courtney Thorne-Smith Has Some Familiarity With Body Image Issues |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 2:00 pm |
| Tags: Books, Courtney Thorne Smith, Gawker Book Club, Jezebel |
| According to IMDB, the author of Great American Celebrity Novel Courtney Thorne-Smith "once considered herself overly busty with a 32DD measurement but eschewed reduction surgery in favor of yoga... |
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| Gawker Book Club: Cougar Katie Couric Showed Lack Of Wisdom In Banging Younger Man |
| Published: August 22, 2007, 6:00 pm |
| Tags: Books, Cougars, Gawker Book Club, Katie Couric |
| Next week sees the release of Edward Klein's "Katie: The Real Story" (Crown), a biography of "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric. Klein's previous biography was the Hillary Clinton hatchet job... |
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| Gawker Book Club: Nina Garcia Hates Duck Boots |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 4:45 pm |
| Tags: Books, Elle Magazine, Fashion, Gawker Book Club, Jezebel, Nina Garcia |
| Each season on Project Runway, "Fashion Director for Elle Magazine" Nina Garcia gets bitcher and bitchier as she gets more famous. That eternal tan! That perfectly highlighted hair! That little smirk... |
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| Gawker Book Club: Nina Garcia Loves Big Butts |
| Published: August 24, 2007, 3:20 pm |
| Tags: Books, Elle Magazine, Gawker Book Club, Jezebel, Nina Garcia, Project Runway |
| Each season on Project Runway, "Fashion Director for Elle Magazine" Nina Garcia gets bitcher and bitchier as she gets more famous. That eternal tan! That perfectly highlighted hair! That little smirk... |
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| Gawker Book Club: Mara Altman's Book Proposal: Not An Orgasm In It |
| Published: August 27, 2007, 4:58 pm |
| Tags: Books, Gawker Book Club, Mara Altman, Publishing, Top |
| "Post-college my perspective about sex changed a lot. I traveled the world and had (sex)life changing experiences—unfortunately, none that really helped my cause. First I took off to India for... |
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| Gawker Book Club: Mara Altman Refers To Her Vagina As "Down There," Still Hasn't Orgasmed |
| Published: August 28, 2007, 3:40 pm |
| Tags: Gawker Book Club, Mara Altman, Orgasms, Sex, This Getting Oddly Engrossing, Vaginas |
| Yesterday, we learned about former cripplesex-beat Voice reporter Mara Altman's inability to orgasm with a 31-year-old Muslim man named Rafiq. Today, we go deeper—get it? Like, deeper into... |
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| Gawker Book Club: Nina Garcia Advises Her Acolytes To "Mix It Up" |
| Published: August 29, 2007, 12:00 pm |
| Tags: Elle Magazine, Gawker Book Club, Jezebel, Nina Garcia, Project Runway, The Precious The Not |
| Each season on Project Runway, "Fashion Director for Elle Magazine" Nina Garcia gets bitcher and bitchier as she gets more famous. She's enough to remind us why we never worked for a fashion... |
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| Gawker Book Club: Nina Garcia Understands All The Races Of The World |
| Published: August 30, 2007, 5:45 pm |
| Tags: Books, Gawker Book Club, Jezebel, Nina Garcia, Project Runway, Stereotypes, Wtf |
| Each season on Project Runway, "Fashion Director for Elle Magazine" Nina Garcia gets bitcher and bitchier as she gets more famous. She's enough to remind us why we never worked for a fashion... |
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| Gawker Book Club: Which Fashion Lady Did Nina Garcia Spy Wearing Granny Underwear? |
| Published: August 31, 2007, 10:40 am |
| Tags: Books, Elle Magazine, Gawker Book Club, Jezebel, Nina Garcia, Project Runway |
| Nina Garcia, Project Runway judge and alleged 'Elle' editor, has a new book coming out after Labor Day called The Little Black Book of Style. In it, she imparts her wisdom about the world of fashion... |
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