Vaguely Literary Feud Ends Abruptly;
Gossip Legman Shoots Self in Foot

Tuesday's Lloyd Grove led off with memoirist Abigail Vona and her rough treatment at the hands of ex-boyfriend (and ex-agent) Douglas Dechert, who apparently got the New York Press to allow him to review the author as badly as the book. Grove also reported Dechert's claim that Page Six contributor Ian Spiegelman, who wrote about the breakup last month, then tried to ask Vona out on a date. So in today's column, Grove lets us know how Spiegelman reacted in an email to Dechert:

"If I wanted to take your girl out, I would...You have nothing I can't take away from you, you non-man. Doug, you little tiny fairy ... I will break your back over my knee in the press and I will push your face inside-out in private or public."

Apparently this was too much for the delicate flowers editing the Post, who promptly fired Spiegelman for "language and the tone...completely unacceptable to the New York Post," even though we all know that they rehearse similar outbursts intended for the Clintons in front of their bathroom mirrors every morning.