Illustration by Jillian Tamaki

Seeing former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Nightline, expressing deep regret over his extramarital affair with Rielle Hunter, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of déjà vu. Didn’t we already hear about this story a few months ago? Oh no, that was Eliot Spitzer’s deep regret over his extramarital affair(s) with high-priced New York call girls. Yawn.

Then comes word that Rielle Hunter has a bit of a past as a literary party girl, which strikes me as way hotter than any revelation from the Spitzer debacle, where the most interesting thing to emerge was some old footage of one of his “dates” cavorting on the Girls Gone Wild bus.

Famed Bright Lights, Big City author Jay McInerney has fessed up to Page Six in the New York Post that he briefly dated Rielle Hunter back in the '80s when she was known as Lisa Druck. According to McInerney, Hunter/Druck served as the model for Alison Poole, the hedonistic protagonist in his novel Story of My Life. More interesting still is the appearance of a character named Alison Poole in two novels (American Psycho and Glamorama) penned by Bret Easton Ellis, McInerney’s friend and fellow card-carrying member of the “literary brat pack."

I have only one question: Where is Tama Janowitz in all of this? If she so much as had a lunch date with Druck at The Odeon, I think this could officially qualify as some kind of literary hat trick…

-- Lee Ferguson