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fek: So. Let’s talk about one of the best birthday gifts I’ve ever—ever—received. In all sincerity, it really is. Andrew’s reaction: dude, i almost shit myself when feld showed it to me. i honestly didn’t know it existed in hardcover. i thought it was paperback only! Other things about The Worst-Selling Book of All Time: The list of contributors is kind of amazing. Try these people on for size: Mike Albo, Emily Gould (presumably pre-Gawker), Andrea Rosen (?!), Jim Norton, Michael Showalter, Kate Spencer, et al. Also! It was written by Chelsea Peretti and Bridie Clark. I never paid attention to these things. Also: Andrea Rosen?! The “Book Produced by” credit goes to Gaby, who spends her days fielding calls from the ADL in my defense. She’s the Gawker de facto legal brain, so she spearheaded the project. Denton probably had little if nothing to do with it. He’s probably never even read it. I’m surprised he went to the book party. Here’s the real secret of the book: it’s actually quite good. Some of the stuff in it is really, really accurate and still rings true (especially the material on literary agencies, which I spent two years of my life in; there’s a “form rejection letter” that I’ve sent out multiple times word for word). But that’s the biggest LOL about it: nobody gives a shit about conquering all media aside from a handful of people who already know all of this, so most people just think it’s about as silly a prospect as it actually is. Besides which, like the Twitter book, you can just go through old Gawker posts and get the real deal for free. This is the ultimate TL;DR. But that’s not why this is one of the best presents of all time… I may be entirely wrong, but I believe it was Andrea Rosen the comedian, not Andrea Rosen the adorable L Mag writer.

fek:

So. Let’s talk about one of the best birthday gifts I’ve ever—ever—received. In all sincerity, it really is. Andrew’s reaction:

dude, i almost shit myself when feld showed it to me. i honestly didn’t know it existed in hardcover. i thought it was paperback only!

Other things about The Worst-Selling Book of All Time:

  1. The list of contributors is kind of amazing. Try these people on for size: Mike Albo, Emily Gould (presumably pre-Gawker), Andrea Rosen (?!), Jim Norton, Michael Showalter, Kate Spencer, et al. Also! It was written by Chelsea Peretti and Bridie Clark. I never paid attention to these things. Also: Andrea Rosen?!
  2. The “Book Produced by” credit goes to Gaby, who spends her days fielding calls from the ADL in my defense. She’s the Gawker de facto legal brain, so she spearheaded the project. Denton probably had little if nothing to do with it. He’s probably never even read it. I’m surprised he went to the book party.
  3. Here’s the real secret of the book: it’s actually quite good. Some of the stuff in it is really, really accurate and still rings true (especially the material on literary agencies, which I spent two years of my life in; there’s a “form rejection letter” that I’ve sent out multiple times word for word). But that’s the biggest LOL about it: nobody gives a shit about conquering all media aside from a handful of people who already know all of this, so most people just think it’s about as silly a prospect as it actually is. Besides which, like the Twitter book, you can just go through old Gawker posts and get the real deal for free. This is the ultimate TL;DR.

But that’s not why this is one of the best presents of all time…

I may be entirely wrong, but I believe it was Andrea Rosen the comedian, not Andrea Rosen the adorable L Mag writer.

  1. jdel reblogged this from andrearosen and added:
    Foot in mouth. Marry me anyway?
  2. andrearosen reblogged this from jdel and added:
    Unfortunately, I did not contribute to this book. Nor do I work for The L Magazine anymore. But I am still adorable, so...
  3. mbyhoff reblogged this from fek and added:
    What a present! Orrrr, you could just come into the office and grab a stack of them that have been collecting dust in a...
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