Wednesday, January 9, 2008

That was a little embarressing...

We just lost to Cincinatti. Let's just hope we don't play like that from here on out. I was so discouraged from the game (and my Dad's yelling at the game) that I finished my book while it was on. I read "Falling out of Fashion" by Karen Yampolsky. Despite the title, it's not chick-lit. Yampolsky is the former assistant to Jane Pratt, founder and editor-in-chief of Jane magazine. In this novel she writes about Jill White and her rise and decline in the publishing biz. She uses altered names of celebrities and other publications that are so close to the original that they are blatantly obvious. I enjoyed this very much for lots of juicy info was revealed. For example S.I. Newhouse Jr, who bears the name of my school is known as "T.J. Oldham Jr.", head of Nestrom (Conde Nast) Publishing, and People was called "Profile". I highly recommend this book to any mag majors.

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