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Upon the release of Amy Sohn's new book, Prospect Park West, some Park Slope locals lashed out on the author (who also resides there with her family); but then again it isn't all that difficult to get the Brownstone dwellers riled up. Sohn's fictional tale, at points, holds a mirror up to the neighborhood, drawing upon the real life happenings there; from celebrity couples to sexless marriages to swingers to stroller-pushers. Last week she told us a little bit about it all, and confirmed that blow job prowess is indeed a fairly accurate measure of one's self worth.

Amy Sohn's tome on Park Slope parents, titled Prospect Park West, is officially out there causing a stir. Recently her "neighbor" and local blogger Louise Crawford trashed Sohn for fueling the cliches of the Bugaboo culture that thrives there, or maybe because she was jealous she didn't write the book... one of those. Now the NY Times takes a closer look at life in Sohn's portrayal of the neighborhood; any outbursts about that portrayal seems to be grounded in the paradox that Sohn says is “Every mother know[ing] what a Park Slope Mother is, but no one think[ing] she is one." (In fact, Susan Fox, the founder of Park Slope Parents, tells the Gray Lady she's “non-frumpy, non-cargo-wearing mom who actually has a good marriage, unlike PPW would have us believe”).

Prospect Park West, Amy Sohn's new novel depicting (and picking apart) the people and places in that neighborhood, has fallen into the hands of Smartmom, Louise Crawford. In an incredibly breathy takedown, Crawford comes off as insulted, and maybe a little jealous of the neighborhood author.

This week's issue of New York magazine is the Annual Sex Issue, with alarming and titillating articles about marriage with benefits (dude, marriage is so cool!), and the old gay man scene (you know, baldness is a sign of extra testosterone), but the article that captivated Gothamist was the sex columnist roundtable, which included our very sexy contributor, Rachel Kramer Bussel, who writes for the Village Voice and Penthouse (her picture, at right). Other columnists (all of them female) were Stephanie Klein, DC sex-fiend Jessica Cutler, former Redbook-now Penthouse contributor Elise Nersesian, our alma mater's paper's sex columnist Miriam Datskovsky (all the good things at Columbia happen AFTER we leave), and NY magazine columnist Amy Sohn. We tip our hat to these ladies, because Lord knows we wouldn't be able to handle our high school teacher telling us he reads a sex column we wrote. But it's good to know that doing antidepressants and coke makes one write faster - we'd been wondering that.

- The ME's examination of the body found in a Pennsylvania dump is inconclusive about whether or not it's the body of Monica Lozado-Rivadineira

Genevieve Field, Sex and Sensibility editor, Nerve.com co-founder

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Amy Sohn, Novelist/ Journalist

Gothamist Weather loves how New York magazine asked four writers to profile four ordinary New Yorkers go about their day. And check out the James Joyce Center and The Brazen Head, a website about James Joyce.

his. Bridget Harrison's reaction sounds about right for most someone trying to rise above it all, and Gothamist has to give this guy his due for being upfront about it. And yes, single people expecting kids can date, but you'd have to be kidding yourself if you didn't think it was a possible dating dealbreaker.

Mazel tov to New York magazine columnist Amy Sohn and artist Charles Miller, who are now 2 weeks married. Their courtship and wedding was capsulized in today's Vows column in the Times and, since we're romantics under our crusty, cynical shells, we're so happy that one of our favorite clever girl-about-town columnists is over the moon happy. And we think Charles Miller is funny, as he explains that while his new wife has laid out her relationship history, for New Yorkers, he's got his own history, telling reporter Jenny Allen, "I've been with a lot of women. I'm 43. I went to Bennington." Touche!

The lesbian microscene goes under Amy Sohn's microscope. She looks at the ups and downs of lesbian dating, namely how it's incredibly insular and everyone knows your business. And most potentially troubling is that exes might date each other - "a problem straight people never have to worry about." Yeah, but gay guys do. And straight people who are in their own microscenes have to deal with stuff like getting asked out by an old fling's best friend/bandmate or realizing you and a friend have dated the same metrosexual - who took you to the same bar for the first date. No matter how you cut it, microscenes need to go macro at some point.

Hellfire and damnation, Michiko Kakutani reviews Candace Bushnell's new book, Trading Up. As Elle "Legally Blonde" Woods. No joke. Kakutani, as Elle, writes a memo to the book's main character, Janey Wilcox:

Gothamist received an invite to hear contributors to the Dictionary of Failed Relationships speak at the Chelsea Barnes & Noble tonight. Apparently, we must have been put on the list of "People who'd write about failed relationships or people who have been in their share." Jake would like to protest that, but as Jen posts more, Gothamist guesses it's appropriate.

Bravo will be airing a gay-dating reality series, "Boy Meets Boy," this summer! According to the Hollywood Reporter, the show "features an eligible man looking for love in a pool of 15 potential mates. But in a twist worthy of the bogus baron on Fox's 'Joe Millionaire,' some of the suitors are actually heterosexual men who were paid by the program to pretend to be gay -- unbeknownst to the eligible bachelor." Ha - "pretending to be gay!" Just like Hollywood! Except there, one "pretends to be straight."

In the world of "girls trying to make it in the city" journalism, Gothamist has been reading Amy Sohn's Naked City column in New York magazine for a while, with a bulletproof formula of sex, personal musings, more sex, New York context, maybe a big picture idea but not necessarily. Lately, we've noticed the Post has its variation on the them in Bridget Harrison. Both seem to be positioning themselves as the 21st century's Candace Bushnell, whose Sex and the City column in the Observer launched, well, you know: The show, the attitude, the enabling of shoe obsessions, Patricia Field as fashion authority, etc.