'Commie Girl' Turns OC Weekly Columns into Book
By AAN Staff
march 4, 2008 10:30 am
Rebecca Schoenkopf's collection of
OC Weekly columns, titled
Commie Girl in the O.C., is due out soon from Verso. She tells MediaBistro that the book was a byproduct of
her departure from the Weekly last year. "After two weeks, my mom called and started bitching at me and telling me I need to get a job," she says. "So I went back, and of course I didn't keep my clips, so I had to copy and paste everything from the [
OC Weekly] website. I revised it a couple of times," and later got the deal with Verso, with a little help from
City of Quartz author Mike Davis. "He fired off a grand e-mail for me to everyone he knows," Schoenkopf says. "And his publisher was thrilled."