Did you hear that Monica Lewinsky is getting an eight-figure book deal for her juicy tell-all? We'd take that with a grain of salt.
The chorus of "poor Monica Lewinsky"—alone and miserable, a memory of something indecent and tawdry in America, a soiled Gap dress, a beret, something-something to do with the commander-in-chief, that man, Bill Clinton—is going to change with her tell-all. But can it ever change for the better?
Today in books and publishing: SEAL's nudges Fifty Shades off top spot; Lewinsky shopping book; iTunes is Vagina-shy; former Goldman banker gets memoir deal.
Fourteen years ago there was a sex scandal that rocked our nation to its core. In the wake of Bill Clinton's speech at the DNC, it rears rears its increasingly tepid head yet again. Lewinsky is a long legacy for former President Bill Clinton, but it's also a rather impotent one.
Chelsea Clinton may be an entitled diva with prudish rules about what she'll cover at NBC News, but her network colleagues don't come off any better in Buzzfeed's feature on her television career, since all they seem to want from her is to hear about Monica Lewinsky.
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