t would be one thing if the people charged with writing the insta-book knock-off publishing projects about the collapse of the Brad and Jennifer marriage were Sydney Carton types, aging boozers with rotted hearts heroically turning one last disgusting buck with a foot already in the grave. But the authors of this year’s Brad and Jen: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Golden Couple ($7, Wenner) are a pair of brainless little girls of a type to make one pray for the speedy return of Stalin to power. The two US Weekly “senior writers” wrote their Brad-and-Jen book in a single week and in interviews afterward expressed surprise at how long a book is compared to an article. “Bob Wallace, the head of Wenner Books, said it had to be 40,000 words, which I didn’t really understand,” said Reinstein. “All I knew was that an Us Weekly cover story is, like, 1,300 words, so I knew it would be a lot.” Bartolomeo said Wallace gave helpful advice: “The advice we got was, ‘Hit the return key more often,'” she said. “My paragraphs were too long. That was what turned my magazine writing into book writing.”
On Banging Head Against Keyboard. Repeatedly.
March 31st, 2005 · 4 Comments
by Booksquare
File Under: Quote of the Week
4 responses so far ↓
Lorra // Mar 31, 2005 at 2:55 pm
You definitely hit the motherload of funny on this one! Thanks for making me laugh, yet again.
Margaret Able // Mar 31, 2005 at 7:01 pm
Bang away — I think I’ll join you…
The Happy Booker // Apr 1, 2005 at 9:35 am
SO funny! Would you mind if I link to this–creds of course to you, ms. book square! Wendi (check out my “why blog” essay today at buzz,balls,hype)
Booksquare // Apr 1, 2005 at 9:41 am
Of course, link away. And heading to Buzz, Balls…how cool is that?