For many, the recession has meant a de-railed career, a dented (or worse) savings account, and a discouraging amount of free time. But these sly foxes profiled by the New York Times were clever enough to complete an unemployment oeuvre while they waited out the economic slump.
Luckily for the genre of "layoff lit," some pretty important people got the ax over the past year or so - the type of people who get a book deal out of it.
Dominique Browning, former editor in chief of House & Garden magazine, lost her job
and "won a life" according to her new book's jacket. I personally think that saccharine quip alone should automatically ban her from the world of literature, but I'm not the one who gets to make those calls. So, Ms. Browning will release her memoir in May, 2010.
Alexandra Penney, the former editor in chief of Self magazine, lost all her savings to Madoff. This doesn't count as a layoff but she did have to sell two of her houses! Voila; next month: “The Bag Lady Papers.” Penny has also been writing for The Daily Beast about her epic struggle, which has included giving up her cleaning lady and taking the subway for the first time in 30 years.
Of course, any writer in financial doubt should really just give in and turn to the ever-stable Romance genre... as we saw back in April, it's utterly Recession-proof!
I couldn't help but laugh at this!
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Epic, really!
Wow. That is rough living. Here I was complaining that we are down to one car and having to give up Starbucks as bad. I had no idea that people out there were losing their cleaning ladies. Shocking. I certainly want to spend money on a book to find out how they do it. On second thought, I'll use the money to get some Starbucks.
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