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by Linda Holmes

• If you enjoyed Gordon Ramsay on Hell's Kitchen or Kitchen Nightmares, you'll be happy to know that he has another show coming to Fox, on which he will undoubtedly call people "donkeys."

• For a good summary of the "physical books cannot be replaced, because I say so" argument that bedevils e-readers, check out this piece from the Boston Globe.

• It feels like there have been thousands of articles just like this one about the process of writing headlines at The Onion, in which journalists convey the apparently surprising facts that (1) there is a process to comedy; (2) comedy is work; (3) people who have a wildly successful formula for success that has been successful for them for, say, 20 years or so tend to understand what that formula is; and (4) people who write comedy professionally obsess over it at a level you might not expect. Because, see, they do it professionally. I generally find the tone of the articles more interesting than the articles themselves, but that one, from The New York Times, is a pretty good one.

Possibly the worst book ever and a fresh lawsuit, after the jump.

• I'm somewhat proud that I had no idea that Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt had a new book. Fortunately, someone else read it so no one else needs to.

• Barnes & Noble, which recently unveiled its e-reader, The Nook, to great fanfare, is now being sued by Spring Design, which claims to have been in touch with B&N about design ideas for months, only to find them lifted for the Nook.

categories: Roundups

9:00 - November 3, 2009

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