Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
New York Observer
United States
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Bright and Precious Jay McInerney
Toward the end of the 1980s, Jay McInerney spotted Ronald Perelman on Fifth Avenue. Flanked by bodyguards, the billionaire businessman was standing next to a homeless person. That scene, the kind of prototypical New York study in stark contrasts, gave McInerney the seed of an idea for the novel that became Brightness Falls, the writer recalled recently. → Read More
Cormac McCarthy is Alive Despite Tweets to the Contrary
Cormac McCarthy is not dead. → Read More
Bill Cunningham Hosptalized Following Stroke
Beloved New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham has been hospitalized following a stroke. → Read More
Anna Wintour Has ‘Pressure to Produce’
Anna Wintour trotted out some new material at the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. → Read More
Washington Post Puts Branded Content On Facebook Instant Articles
The Washington Post has begun publishing branded content on Facebook's Instant Articles platform. → Read More
Law360 Agrees to Stop Making Reporters Sign Non-Competes
Law360 has agreed to stop making editorial employees sign non-compete agreements. → Read More
Gawker Media Files for Bankruptcy and Plans to Sell
Gawker Media has filed for bankruptcy. → Read More
How Peter Thiel’s Secret War With Gawker Came to Light
How two Forbes reporters uncovered Peter Thiel's secret war with Gawker. → Read More
LitHub Launches Book Marks, a Rotten Tomatoes for Books
Book Mark—like Rotten Tomatoes, but for books. → Read More
Notorious New York Times Fabulist Jayson Blair Resurfaces at Surface Mag
Noted fabulist Jayson Blair is back in print. → Read More
Gawker Hits Back Against Peter Thiel, Facebook Tries Not to Get Involved
Gawker is making good on its threat to fight back against Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire bent on destroying the media company. → Read More
Jobs Report: Quanta Magazine’s Thomas Lin Spends His Days ‘Illuminating Science’
Thomas Lin is the founding editor of Quanta Magazine, an online outlet funded by The Simons Foundation to cover hard science and math. → Read More
Vanity Fair Book Columnist Elissa Schappell Bidding Mag a ‘Fond Farewell’
“After twenty plus years as Vanity Fair’s book columnist I am bidding them fond farewell,” Elissa Schappell announced on Facebook. → Read More
Sasha Frere-Jones Out at LA Times After Reportedly Expensing $5K Strip Club Bill
Sasha Frere-Jones resigned from The Los Angeles Times after accusations that he attempted to expense a $5,000 bill from a strip club. → Read More
The Poachables: 10 Players in Media You Must Hire
In our highly subjective opinion, here are 10 people who are especially poachable. → Read More
David Samuels Defends His Controversial NY Times Mag Profile of Ben Rhodes
David Samuels posted a lengthy response to the criticism of his lengthy profile New York Times Magazine profile of Ben Rhodes. → Read More
Facebook Supression Story is Trending on Facebook
Not only do human workers have an annoying tendency to behave like humans with opinions, but they often end up leaking to the press. → Read More
Facebook Wants to Replace Morning Shows
“It will appear in those morning wake-up hours where you are getting up, you could use a little to get you going,” Facebook’s Keenan Pridmore told Adweek. → Read More
From Bushwick to Gowanus: Brooklyn Co-Working Space for Freelance Journalists Expands
“It’s the good parts of an office without the bad parts,” Study Hall co-founder Kyle Chayka explained. → Read More
Cosmopolitan Mag to Become Reality Show
Sounds like a completely accurate depiction of what it’s like to work at a magazine/ a show about a bunch of hungover editorial assistants trying not get yelled at. → Read More