Happy Mother's Day, Mommy Dearest?

This is one way to land a book deal, we suppose. After asserting in an acceptance speech that her mother was “was everything I didn’t want to be, and to this day I wake up every morning grateful not to be her,” Ruth Reichl has signed a contract with Penguin Press to write a “tome about the meaning of motherhood past and present and the lack of opportunities available to prior generations.”

Penguin Press was apparently “inspired” by the speech — giving a whole new meaning to the publishing term “verbal pitch” — and plans to publish in time for Mother’s Day 2009.

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