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February 6, 2008By Michael Cader

Lunch for Wednesday, February 6

February 6, 2008By Michael Cader

Modern Love Breeds Books Today’s Observer notes: “First-time authors looking for a book deal could do worse than to have a piece published in Modern Love, the New York Times Sunday Styles column that tends to provoke eye-rolling among the chattering classes — if they admit to reading the thing at all. But since it started, in 2004, with The Bastard on the Couch author Daniel Jones as its editor from his home in Northampton, Mass., no fewer than nine book contracts have been signed based on Modern Love columns, which, given the vagaries of the publishing industry, is a […]

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