Daniel Radosh
Stuff 'Style' People Dislike: Being Meta
This Sunday's Times 'Style' section featured an article about the always stylish trend of bloggers receiving lucrative book deals pegged to the sale of a Stuff White People Like book to Random House for six figures. (The Times reports the figure at $300,000; The Observer's Leon Neyfakh reported the price at $350,000 when he broke the story on March 20.) read more »
Christian Pop and Swimming Pools: The Radosh, Napolitano Book Party
It was a cheeky idea, listing Chris Napolitano as a co-host last night at Hotel QT. Imagine, the editor of Playboy magazine co-hosting a party in honor of a book on Christianity, Daniel Radosh’s new one: Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture.
Some of the people Mr. Radosh interviewed as part of his research for the book came to the party, too. Everyone else was either a Scribner editor or Nick Denton/Maer Roshan. Jeff Bercovici and Alex Balk were there, too; also fully nine people besides Mr. Napolitano who worked at Playboy and maybe a dozen Oberlin grads.
A 58-year-old Vietnam veteran named Chris MacIntosh, who hosts a Christian rock radio show out of a college station in Long Island, stood by the wall in the back. Mr. Radosh had come up to his studio to visit him when he was working on his book. read more »
