The Miramax Book Club
Tomorrow isn't just Radar's official debut; it's also the release of Rachel Pine's first novel, The Twins of Tribeca. (We're guessing you may find the latter much more interesting, so bear with us.) The novel is about a young publicist at Glorious Pictures, an edgy movie company started by two brothers, Phil and Tony Waxman. None too coinidentally, Pine was once a slave at Bob and Harvey Weinstein's Miramax shirtwaist factory, and now she's gone and sold her roman
clef to — pregnant pause — Miramax Books. Weirdly meta for Pine, and a viciously smart business move for the Miramax boys.
And so it's time for Gawker Book Club treatment, in which we open the book to a page at random and reprint a passage of note. To start us off, let's all turn to page 67:
Completely dominating the surprisingly small space was Phil Waxman, hunched over a desk strewn with papers. He was eating an enormous omelet with his hands while a barber shaved his neck with an electric razor. As Phil looked up at me, a mushroom fell out of his mouth, but he caught it before it hit the plate and shoved it back in.
We suspect that Harvey hasn't actually read this book.
