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White Teeth Author Bites Back

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WRITERS ON THE STORM Smith, Eggers (Photo: Getty Images)
The Literary Brats are tussling on the intellectual playground. According to Radar's Fame-O-Meter, White Teeth author Zadie Smith has surpassed fictional memoirist James Frey in Web attention, and is making moves on the current King of "It" Lit, Dave Eggers. Frey's foray into erotica and his forthcoming novel due out this spring (he's even smart enough to be calling it fiction from the get go) really stood no chance against Smith's towering talent. And more important, she made headlines recently by launching a nasty attack on literary prizes (despite her own well-stocked mantle), calling them "only nominally" about literature and "really about brand consolidation—for beer companies, phone companies, coffee companies, even frozen food companies." On the playground, sometimes gaining popularity is as easy as saying something bitchy. Check out Radar's Fame-O-Meter for more!

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yoko just has to admire these noble attempts at reviving that ol' horse the fameometer! Whereas the Ticker (anyone? anyone?) came and went, this old broad has been around since radar 2.0 and radaronline 1.0 and just won't leave the fucking building. You gotta hand it to her, created by mad scientists just like Frankenstein (and yoko, truth be told), she's determined to muscle back and has worked her way on to the billboard a few times and now has, gasp, items being written about her. If there were a meta-fameometer, her stock would surely be rising!

Posted by: yoko on February 22, 2008 12:16 PM

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