Zooba's got George Tenet
It seems like just yesterday that ex-CIA Director George Tenet was struggling with his manuscript deadline. The book is out now, and Wonkette has already weighed in.
Get it now from Zooba, and let us know what you think...
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May 01, 2007
April 11, 2007
Book news roundup
-Miss Snark, literary agent, has some sympathy for Don Imus. After all, "he helped promote a lot of books." (via Miss Snark)
-Newly uncovered manuscript from the late author of Suite Française (via Conversational Reading)
-More mind-blowing poetry videos from Billy Collins, former Poet Laureate (Billy Collins Action Poetry via Very Short List)
-Au revoir, Cody's Books (via SFGate)
March 27, 2007
Book news roundup
-Literary heavyweights criticize EU's failure to end Darfur violence (The Independent via Critical Mass)
-"For $10,000 to $15,000, you, too, can be a best-selling author." (via Wall Street Journal)
-Top authors pick their favorite books of all time (via Washington Post)
-China pirates around 500 million books per year (via Conversational Reading)
-Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue": just as good as a short story (via The Onion's AV Club)
March 06, 2007
Ann Coulter under fire
An open note to Ann Coulter's former corporate sponsors:
Really?
This was why you decided to pull your ads from her site? You sure? Not because of her defamation of 9/11 widows? Not her scathingly right wing book Godless? Not her poor use of satire?
No? OK. Just checking.
Jenna Bush inks book deal
OK, I may have to call backsies on this old post regarding the Jenna Bush memoir. GalleyCat announces that HarperCollins won the book auction; USA Today says the memoir is less "The Diary of Jenna Bush" and more...about a 17-year-old living with HIV in Panama.
Yeah, I didn't see that one coming, either.
March 01, 2007
Banned books news
Tipped off by a letter of complaint, the FBI is considering whether books by Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, and others should be banned from a high school reading list (via Maud Newton). Also from Maud comes this piece about how books originally deemed obscene become classics.
For more on banned literature, check out Reading Lolita in Tehran, a memoir about the power of books during a time of upheaval.
February 28, 2007
Book news roundup: Even newsier!
-Journalist Bob Woodruff and wife co-write memoir (via NPR, with excerpt)
-Lyons Press will publish ReganBooks's aborted Mickey Mantle novel (via USA Today)
-NPR interviews Oil on the Brain author Lisa Margonelli (via NPR)
-Freakonomics author never ceases to surprise readers (via Freakonomics blog)
February 16, 2007
Al Franken runs for Senate
Comedian and author Al Franken announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate on YouTube earlier this week.
When asked to comment on the announcement, Stephen Colbert said, "I think it's great, but I don't get the joke."
February 15, 2007
News roundup
-Anna Nicole Smith biography emerges from the backlist (via New York Times and Shelf Awareness)
-Judith Regan inspires upcoming Law & Order episode (via Slush Pile)
-George Tenet works on his overdue memoir (via Galleycat)
-Manchester University chooses Martin Amis as new creative writing professor (via Literary Saloon)
February 12, 2007
Happy birthday, Abraham Lincoln
Happy birthday to you, Mr. Lincoln, the Dems' favorite Republican! For history buffs, might I suggest Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin and Manhunt by Lincolnologist James Swanson. And, here, a Lincoln comic by Conan O'Brien from back in his Harvard Lampoon days...
February 08, 2007
News roundup
-Astro-nut lands book deal (via Galleycat)
-Judge prohibits O.J. from spending If I Did It advance (via Yahoo! News)
-National Book Critics Circle clash over racial themes of While Europe Slept (via The New York Times)
-Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking will hit Broadway (via NPR)
February 07, 2007
In the land of the free, everything is banned
First Chicago banned foie gras. Now San Mateo County outlaws smoking outdoors, and New York City may ixnay listening to your iPod while crossing the street.
If you need me, I'll be smoking in my apartment and reading Everything Bad is Good For You and Muzzled.
February 05, 2007
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Bomb Scare
Correct me if I'm wrong, but terrorism sucks.
Even when it's just a guerrilla marketing campaign gone terribly awry. Involving Atari-like cartoon characters on a Lite Brite. Dreamt up by Counting Crows...
Okay, never mind. This is just the 101st way that America is screwing up the world-- a complete lack of common sense.
February 02, 2007
Happy Groundhog Day
Punxsutawney Phil wants to talk. You know how every year he takes the time to emerge from his home, schmooze with the mayor, and do the little shadow dance that inspired a movie starring Bill Murray? Right. Well, this time, he needs to level with you.
Winter isn't coming.
Haven't you seen how snowless New York City is? Haven't you read the climate report from the U.N.? Heard about the Parisians shutting off the lights of the Eiffel Tower as a plea to conserve energy? Mais non? He hasn't either. He lives in a hole in the ground.
But he's got this book that you might like. It's called An Inconvenient Truth. You should check it out.
January 31, 2007
Barackmania!
Barack Obama is everywhere: Men's Vogue, Ebony magazine, not to mention BarackOblogga.com...Let's face it; his name is Bic-tattooed in a giant heart on America's collective ankle.
If you're still jonesing for your Obama fix, check out his book here. More on Barackmania from the contrarians at Slate.
November 10, 2006
Is Bush still in a State of Denial?
Is President Bush coming out of his “State of Denial?” The Republicans lost control of the house and senate, and was followed by the “resignation” of Rumsfeld.
Bob Woodward’s bestselling book, State of Denial, provides the most complete account of how and why Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and others were caught in a war so different from the one they had launched and expected.