Lauren Weisberger

As part of soon-to-be-former Gawker editor Jessica Coen's going-away festivities, possibly one of the greatest things ever published in the history of Gawker just went up. As far as taking down magazine editors goes, Lauren Weisberger can totally read it and weep.

Anna Wintour is a very magnanimous woman.  read more »

Hi Choire:

My name is Friday and on behalf of Simon & Schuster I'm currently helping spread the word about Lauren Weisberger's latest work, Everyone Worth Knowing. Weisberger is best-known for her earlier work, The Devil Wears Prada. I think your site's target audience would really appreciate this book. Would you be interested in receiving a free copy of a Weisberger's book in exchange for a piece on your site? Maybe several copies for a contest?

You may want to write a review about the book, hold a book contest, write a small blurb and feature it somewhere on your site, or something along those line (if you come up with another idea, please let me know.) In return for your kindness and help, I will happily send you a copy.

You can find out more about this book or purchase it at the SimonSays [Simon & Schuster] website: http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?sid=33&pid=510946

For assets that you can use to beef up your features or reviews, please go to: http://www.soulkool.net/gr/weisberger/ If you're interested, please get back to me and we can work out whatever is necessary.  read more »

I look forward to hearing from you.

Warmest Regards, Friday

Some million-dollar books get off to a slow sales start, but this slow? Amazon.com's data on Lauren Weisberger's Everyone Worth Knowing, as of this afternoon:  read more »

This week, Everyone Worth Knowing, the second novel by Lauren Weisberger—she of best-selling T  read more »

This week, Everyone Worth Knowing, the second novel by Lauren Weisberger—she of best-selling The D  read more »

As in today's Observer, NY Daily News gossips Rush and Molloy get in a little on Lauren Weisberger's new book, noting that "The Devil Wears Prada author gets even in her new book with witty Gawker founder Elizabeth Spiers, who trashed her on the blog. 'If anyone finds out exactly what Ms. Weisberger is an 'insider' in, do let us know,' she wrote," they say.

Of course, that Gawker item was written after Ms. Spiers was safely ensconced at New York magazine, but the point remains. (In fact, there's a new theme in chick lit of (totally fantasized) horrible abusive bloggers in the Big City; see also Deborah Schoeneman's forthcoming book.)  read more »

In any event, the name "Weisberger" appears 25 times on Gawker, and 13 of those appearances are during Ms. Spiers' tenure. Here are a few selected items of Ms. Spiers' horrible, cruel mauling of Ms. Weisberger:

July 7, 2003: "When the NYT had former Harper's Bazaar editor and [Vogue editor] Anna Wintour protegee Kate Betts review The Devil Wears Prada, (Lauren Weisberger's roman-a-clef about her job as Anna's assistant) I thought it was incredibly unfair..." April 24, 2003: "Shameless but relevant self-promotion: I interviewed Lauren Weisberger, the author of The Devil Wears Prada (a roman a clef about Vogue editor Anna Wintour) on Monday for Salon." April 14, 2003: "How naive do you have to be to sign up to work for [Vogue Editor] Anna Wintour, expecting that she's going to be nice to you? She's Anna Wintour, for god's sake! Of course she's going to abuse you! It's her job!" April 13, 2003: "As far as book reviews go, Betts' review isn't an actual review. There's no discussion of the novel as a piece of literature. It's really just an ethical analysis of Weisberger's decision to trash her ex-boss in print..." Yow! Harsh! Meow!

Free-swinging ingenue bashes Wintour in best-selling novel, favorite of subway-riding assistants eve  read more »

New Yorkers are more familiar than anyone with Schadenfreude , that dark German torte of an emotion:  read more »

The Devil Wears Prada, by Lauren Weisberger.  read more »