The New Yorker’s ‘Talk of the Town’: British Import
Mar 8th, 2007 by Viviane
The extremely smart (and hot) journalist and lawyer Jeffrey Toobin, better known as the legal correspondent for the New Yorker, interviewed Zoe Margolis (GWAOT) for the New Yorker:
The blog’s voice—cheerfully neurotic, unapologetically political—was distinctive from the start. Regarding one memorable romp, the Girl mused, “Here was I, a feminist, a believer of equality in every realm, and a man wanted me to take all the control? I wasn’t quite sure about that.” (She gets sure.)
Margolis was soon drawing ten thousand visitors a day. In the summer of 2005, an agent suggested that the Girl turn her stories into a book. Working through intermediaries and a trusted lawyer, Margolis signed a contract that would, she thought, allow for publication of the book while keeping her anonymity intact. As a nom de plume, she chose Abby Lee.
Last August, a few days after “Girl with a One-Track Mind: Confessions of the Seductress Next Door” was published, her doorbell in London rang. “There was a guy with a bunch of flowers for me,” she said. “To sign for them, he made me kneel out the front door in a very awkward way. It was just strange.” The next day, she learned that the flower delivery had been a ruse, concocted by the Sunday Times, to take her photograph for a story that would identify her as the author of the book and the blog. “They started e-mailing and calling me the next day, saying that I should give them an interview and pose for pictures, or they would identify me and run the pictures, which they said were ‘unflattering,’ ”
Holy cow. Sex blogging makes it into the New Yorker! Congratulations, Zoe!
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