The Heart of Kardarkness: The Kardashians and The Culture of Stupid
A few weeks back, talking about Unreal Estate and Natalie Wood on Tyler Brule‘s The Monocle Daily podcast, I coined a term, The Culture of Stupid, to describe too much of ours. This week, that inspired my Crain’s New York Business Commentary column, “Discarding the Kards.”
Daily News redux for Unreal Estate
Unreal Estate is featured in the Daily News two days in a row. Tomorrow, its “Best Places” section includes a Q&A with me and reporter Gina Pace about the book and HBO’s plans to make it into a series.
An unreal tabloid two-fer
In today’s Daily News, Frank DiGiacomo‘s Gatecrasher column asked me to put my two cents in on New York Times critic Janet Maslin, after spotting my various posts here reprinting e-mails I’ve received about her recent review of Unreal Estate. He also spelled her name right and ran her picture. In today’s New York Post, […]
Damn the torpedoes, bestseller ahead!
For the fourth week running, Unreal Estate appears on the bestseller list at West Hollywood’s wonderful independent book store, Book Soup (that’s it, at right).
On Maslin on Unreal Estate: “A disgrace to journalism”
The latest slam of the New York Times review of Unreal Estate comes from a fellow journalist and author: “I was enraged by that review! Totally unfair. I have very strong views about people in media taking advantage of having a platform that people can’t defend themselves against….What Janet Maslin did to your excellent book’s […]
Long live the (L.A.) Times
Sunday’s Los Angeles Times features Unreal Estate in its guide to the holiday season’s best gift books.
One more comment on Miss Maslin, if you please.
Yesterday’s post of excerpts of comments on the attempted take-down of Unreal Estate by Janet Maslin (at right) has inspired another one, this one worth reprinting in full. It’s from a bestselling author and journalist whose work frequently appears in, ta-da, the New York Times: “Janet Maslin should stop reviewing. She is getting tired, lazy […]
And now, some reviews of Janet Maslin’s review of Unreal Estate.
The reviews of New York Times critic Janet Maslin‘s “review” of Unreal Estate are coming in. Here are some excerpts. I’ve left out the senders’ names to protect the innocent. “It’s one thing to dislike a book but another to trash an entire body of work. What raw nerve(s) did you cut into along the […]