Two weeks ago, author Edward Jay Epstein explained how the $5 billion deal in 2004 had cleaned out Wall St. hedge funds. Now he has obtained the dealbook that spells out exactly what went wrong.

Oh, right: news haiku. Jim Behrle's started you off. Now less talk, more poetry! And apologies for not getting yesterday's winner posted yesterday. The lucky victor is unclevanya and you can read his tribute to James Cameron after the jump.

It's haiku time again: News happens all the time, just waiting to be boiled down to 17 moras. Jim Behrle has started you off and later on he'll pick a winner. Let the finger-counting begin!

In the cutthroat world of Poetry there can only be one winner (each day). And today Jim Behrle has selected Kimberly Castro's effort because it's as inscrutable to people who watch Lost as those who don't. Congratulations!

We continue this revolutionary, groundbreaking, why-didn't-anyone-think-of-it-before feature that explores the news of the day through poetry. Jim Behrle has composed a haiku. Now you can submit your own, and later Jim will pick one of the efforts as "the winner."

Here it is, the best news haiku of the day, as selected by Jim Behrle. Now bask, Topheel. Bask, bask, bask. Thanks to everyone who played.

It's time again to haiku the news. Jim Behrle has started you off. And beginning today, because poetry should be rooted in ruthless competition, he will be choosing a winner to appear on the front page later this afternoon.

Let's try this again. Often the only way to make sense of all the news that happens in a day is through 16th-century Japanese poetry. Jim Behrle has composed his ode to today's holiday. Now you play along.

For now, sure you might be thinking of canceling your cable service for a steady diet of Netflix. But Edward Jay Epstein explains why movie studio economics are crumpling the red envelope's dreams of being the next HBO.

Gawker celebrated the end of 2009 setting a new record for pageviews. But Nick Denton anointed monthly uniques as the new king and I'm happy to report we crossed a milestone this week with an audience topping 4 million readers.

Sometimes the only way to get a handle on all the things happening in the news is through the five-seven-five-syllable form known as haiku. "Kreepie King" Jim Behrle has written his entry. Why not leave your own in comments?

Bill Carter, the New York Times' TV industry reporter who literally wrote the book on late night, is working on a new book for Viking that will focus on the recent drama between Conan O'Brien, Jay Leno and NBC.

describing a 1951 dinner party with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in a private letter to E. Michael Mitchell, according to the New York Times. The correspondence has been unsealed by the Morgan Library following the novelist's death.

In honor of Betty White's "moment," we bring you this story of how aspiring comedienne Julia Wolov used a night of imagined passion with the former Golden Girl to open the doors of Hollywood.

the winning entry in a 1897 New York Times reader contest to find a motto that "most aptly" described the paper according to newspaper historian W. Joseph Campbell. The paper stuck with "All the news that's fit to print."

A day working from home only reminds me how unproductive it is. Luckily, you were busy on #tips: Beware the bunds! Muppets! And a job — a really crappy job. At #crosstalk, anyone know how to hold a rifle?

In our continuing campaign to stop worrying and learn to love Valentine's Day, we bring you the advice of Carrie Brownstein, reprinted from her NPR blog Monitor Mix, on how to enjoy the holiday no matter what your romantic status.