For Four Weeks, MSNBC Is Piloting Taped Programming On Friday Nights [TVNewser]
First on TVNewser: In a memo to staffers this afternoon, Rick Kaplan outlined a temporary programming change that's coming to MSNBC on Friday.

Transfolk Speak Out on JT's Deception [Galleycat]
What, I wondered, did genuine transgendered writers make of the revelation that the JT LeRoy who showed up in public wasn't really a twentysomething biological male living out a female gender identity (or, as was claimed on occasion, a post-op transsexual), but a young woman who was, in fact, covering up a hoax for another woman who was writing at least some of the "LeRoy" material?

Malcolm Gladwell Is Twice the Man Noah Tall Is [FishbowlNY]
Turns out that Noah Tall is, in fact, ESPN Books editor/former Premiere editor Michael Solomon and AdWeek columnist Lewis Grossberger.

Rosenbaum Service Friday [FishbowlDC]
Word is out that a memorial service for murdered NYT reporter David Rosenbaum will be held Friday, January 13th, at 10:30 a.m. in Room G-50 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

Breaking news: Hollywood confronts fake-ness [FishbowlLA]
With JT LeRoy unmasked as a pretentious grown woman pretending to be a pretentious ambisexual young man, and James Frey unmasked as a pretentious fiction writer pretending to be a pretentious memoirist, Hollywood asks, whither the assorted Frey and LeRoy related projects around town?

The Guy Who Designed The Works Worked Really Hard And It Works [Unbeige]
We were psyched about Kate Ascher's book, The Works, just because it appealed to our geekier side. But then we remembered our job, and we got psyched about the more graphic design side. So we tracked down the book's designer, Alexander Isley (who runs an eponymous firm), and asked him a couple questions.