The pursuit of the back story as to what prompted Dave Eggers‘s vehement attack on Paul Maliszewski (see Monday’s MobyLives news digest) continues to veer away from the purported topic — Maliszewski’s investigation into Egger’s pal Michael Chabon‘s fabricated Holocaust story — and focus on Maliszewski. Now, someone at Radosh.net has posted excerpts from the “blasphemous e-mails” Eggers cited in his New York Times attack, confirming speculation published elsewhere yesterday that the “e-mails” were a series of satirical gossip columns. In a comment section at Radosh, one correspondent who read the originals called them “hilarious,” another, “tedious.” An item from a section called “Poet Laureate Round-Up”: “ROBERT PINSKY has agreed to accept a small part in his own bio-pic. The movie, called “Jughead Poet from New Jersey” (a working title only), is being produced by the Oscar-winning team of RON HOWARD and BRIAN GRAZER. The translator of DANTE ALIGHIERI‘s Inferno and the on-again-off-again-still-off-yea-still-off-on-again-off-again-boyfriend of supermodel CHRISTY TURLINGTON will reportedly play his father in the movie, opposite either TOM HANKS or TOBY MAGUIRE in the lead. Pinsky will also serve as the chief on-set poetry adviser to the production.”