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Friday, February 03, 2006
  Adventures in Nepotism
Simon Rich, a Harvard junior and the son of New York Times columnist Frank Rich—Harvard class of '71—has landed a two-book deal with Random House.

How'd the Lampoon editor do that? (I haven't been on campus in a while, but the Lampoon isn't exactly prolific.) After all, two-book deals are pretty hard to come by in publishing these days.

I'm sure the fact that Random House publishes both his father and his stepmother has nothing to do with it....
 
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And I'm sure your old boss achieved everything entirely on the merits.
 
Hi, Simon.

Look, the books will rise or all on their merits, so write good ones. But let's be honest: the coincidence that your family is published by the same company isn't really a coincidence.

So, you got a break: Now go and write some funny books...
 
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