'Celebrity Chekov': Russian Master's Work Gets Repopulated With Characters Of In Touch, OK, And E!

First Posted: 12/05/10 05:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:55 PM ET

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In "Celebrity Chekhov," out Tuesday from Harper Perennial, Ben Greenman, an editor at The New Yorker, has adapted the Russian literary great's 19th-century explorations of human nature, using the characters that populate OK! Magazine and E!

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