Today in gossip: CNBC host and financial author kid Andrew Ross Sorkin is upset about not landing an interview, more on this whole Joe Simpson rumor, and we've another royal wedding to attend.
Today in books and publishing: Conflicting takes on Why I Left Goldman Sachs; Amazon "are not pleasant people to do business with"; the genre markings of literary fiction; Animal Farm to be filmed.
Photocopied excerpts of Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story the tell-all by former Goldman Sachs employee Greg Smith, who quit the finance firm in a New York Times op-ed, have started making their way around Wall Street, before the book's official release on Monday.
"Write well, be succinct, include an engaging personal story," Thomas Feyer advised the aspiring letter-writers, noting that whether it makes it to print will have a great deal to do with whether "it fits."
The news that 98 percent Goldman Sachs employees' emailed "muppet" mentions were reference to the recent Jason Segal movie or intra-office name-calling is funny enough without mocking the reporter who brought us such a giggly scoop.
When Gawker unveiled their "Fox Mole," an anonymous employee at Fox News who has been posting about the inner workings of Fox News and their bathrooms, our first thought was that this guy is going to get outed, fired, and then pitch a book. So how much can he hope to get?
Today in books and literature: Penguin was the runner-up in the Greg Smith memoir sweepstakes, the case against adults reading books for kids, and Frank Langella has written a gossipy memoir.
It pays to be bitter, if you choose the right target, and Greg Smith certainly did with Goldman Sachs.
If we're to believe The New York Post, it appears the bidding war for ex-Golman Sachs executive and New York Times' op-ed writer Greg Smith's memoir is about to scratch the $1 million mark--roughly double Smith's salary while working for the Vampire Squid.
Today in books: Former Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith is shopping a book proposal, more fallout about the role of the ghostwriter, and Chuck Palahniuk was in a scary car accident.
Goldman Sachs is going to search through its employees' emails for any mentions of the word "muppet" to make sure they're not mistreating clients, which seems like a silly way to enforce good conduct.
Politico reported Wednesday that the Bloomberg View editorial criticizing Greg Smith's Goldman Sachs op-ed that Michael Bloomberg thought so highly of was written by Bloomberg columnist Michael Kinsley.
There have obviously been plenty of unflattering headlines about Goldman in the past few years. We decided to look at just one aspect of their record: SEC charges levied against Goldman and its employees over the past decade.
Rumors are already starting to fly out of Goldman Sachs that Greg Smith, who resigned from the investment bank in the pages of The New York Times, was a small-time employee upset over his small bonus, which only confirms the cutthroat corporate culture Smith accused the company of perpetuating.
Calling the environment he works in "toxic and destructive," an executive director of Goldman Sachs announced he's quitting the firm today because he can no longer stomach what his beloved company has become.
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