In case you missed it, earlier this week, the novelist Jonathan Franzen wrote a letter to the New York Times in which he rebutted Frank Bruni’s column “Sexism’s Puzzling Stamina.”
The closest thing the Internet has to its own version of the Oscars now has its nominees and, well, Dunham might have to clear some room on her starting-to-be-very-full shelves: she's been nominated for that Obama video. Yeah, that one.
Not only is the Modern Seinfeld account a hit on Twitter, but now the New York Times Magazine has a profile of Jerry Seinfeld, proving that he's still doing what he's always done best.
Jerry Seinfeld launched a new video series where he gets to show off his collection of very nice cars while sitting down for coffee with some of funniest best friends. His first guest is an old friend, Larry David.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
The behind-the-scenes stories of NBC's glory days are coming to light in Warren Littlefield's new book Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV.
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