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Hey, have y'all been using our new "Recommend this" feature at the bottom of each post? This week we're bringing you the "Most Recommended" posts from across the -ist world, as well as recommending some of our own.

After reading the review of Ana Marie Cox's new novel, Dog Days, in the Times yesterday (Cox got praise some of the satire, but the narrative itself was too formulaic), Gothamist wondered what about the other bloggers turned genuine, published (or about to be published) writers and their fates. Are a bunch of online fans enough to make a book successful? But what would be success? Critical praise or bestseller-dom? Link love from the blogosphere? An Oprah endorsement? A kick-ass Technorati ranking? Well, of course, all - and even critically panned books get movie deals! Gothamist has spent about ten minutes thinking about this and clearly, the way to go is to write a pseudo-memoir novel that involves raising a dead brother, Russian Jews, race relations in England, stints in drug clinics, and the Opus Dei, basically The Little Staggering Pieces Are Illuminated White Code.

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.

And don't forget to vote in Gawker's NY Times Hotties poll; your vote counts.

We'll have to wait until tomorrow before the Gothamist Food post on last night's Taste of New York event, but we couldn't help but love this photograph of one dish that Stephanie Klein took.