Ruth Madoff, wife of the Bernard Madoff in the recent news, supposedly co-wrote a kosher cookbook with a friend a few years back. Now the editor of that book claims she wrote the whole thing herself. The NY Times reports Karen MacNeil “was paid to write the cookbook in its entirety. She said Mrs. Madoff ‘was interested in having her name on something that would allow for some sort of fun.'” Maybe this ghostwriting is a small thing, even a common thing in publishing, but in context with the Madoffs’ story of late, it seems to reveal one more way in which the couple lacked any character. (via ArtsJournal)