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more about #books more comments → MrInBetween: Can we seal all the Stephen King fans under a dome? Please? That's all what I want for Thanksgiving. more » TheUptightMidwesterner: I read The Shining right before the movie came out and it taught me to avoid all adaptations of his books. The only film adaptation of his book that ... more » Steverino Begins: I'm a big, bright, shining star. more » Sir Winston Thriller: Well, it isn't guaranteed to suck. Unless they cast Christian Slater as Danny and he does his creepy Jack Nicholson impersonation. more » Botswana Meat Commission FC: For some strange reason I always found the 70s version of Shelley Duvall attractive. I really need to lay off the vodka tonics for a while. more » RollsRoyceRevenge: From the Very Secret Diaries of Danny Torrance: Monday: Called mom. She's sloppy drunk again. They still haven't been able to take away that knife.... more » Bobby Big Wheel: King's just giving us some hair of the dog that bit us. more » scroll_lock: He used to be good ages ago and then got to be a sloppy hack. Steve, if you are dying for a little publicity from recycling some of your finest work,... more » misslinda: Yikes! Bidding is over a thousand bucks and nine days to go! You're over the limit for what I can get away with without my husband saying "what the he... more » momof3wildkids: You are charging $4 for shipping? Really? Couldn't Denton spring for the four bucks? more » Jim Topoleski: wow I remember my ex girlfriend LOVING to write so called "slam books" She had hundreds of them in high school she passed along to friends, I even fo... more » The Real JR: Item specifics - Fiction & Literature Books Format: Hardcover Publication Year: 2009 Topic: -- Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Signed Language: ... more » BookishLookish: Smails will bit $120 if there're tits involved. Anyone? more » The Real JR: Dude, I was in the lead then got outbid within 3 minutes. Oh, it's a mutha-fuckin-BID-OFF! more » Alaska Miller: This is a farce. The best Sarah Palin book in the world is to buy Going Rouge, replace the dust jacket with Going Rogue and convincing her to sign it... more » -
#books
Meaning of 'Redrum' to Be Revealed At Last
Stephen King is writing a sequel to The Shining, which will be "set 40 years later and focus on the lead character Jack Torrance's son Danny." The movie is guaranteed to suck. [Daily Express] -
#gawkercares
The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
At 2009's National Book Awards we honored Sarah Palin's Going Rogue as 2010's frontrunner for the NBA Fiction Prize by getting it signed by the gathered literary luminaries. And now, it can be the best charitable, tax-deductible present ever. More » -
#videuhoh
Sarah Palin Now Pissing Off Everyone: Fans Boo Her, Martha Stewart Calls Her 'Dangerous'
Evil Twin-spawning Sarah Palin isn't catching any easy breaks lately. Should she? Better ask her fans who, oh wait, are now booing her. And when Martha Stewart calls you out, damn, you know you've set some kind of bar. More » -
#wtf
Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"
Glenn Beck's talking up some scary plan for 2010 lately. It's scary because Glenn Beck is talking. And today, Glenn Beck unveiled his 100-year plot to fundamentally change America—and democracy—as we know it. Glenn Beck is fucking insane. More » -
#bookdeals
Regretsy Book to Be Not Quite as Good as Regretsy.com
The heretofore anonymous founder of Regretsy, the blog that appropriately mocks your dumb arts-and-crafts projects, has been outed. Because she got a book deal! New blog-to-book trend: Saying right up front the book will be more paltry than the blog. More » -
#gawkerpartycrash
It's the 2009 National Book Awards and These People Feel Fine
2009's National Book Awards went down last night. In delightful twists of irony, they were a) sponsored by Google, b) held on Wall Street, and c) James Franco was there. So were Party Crash Photog Mo Pitz and I. BOOKS!
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#journalismism
Dead Animal Helps Pan Book Decrying Animal Death
Yes, that was a real pig's head illustrating the New York Times' negative review of Jonathan Safran Foer's anti-meat-eating book, Gawker contributor Joshua David Stein has confirmed. The letters to the editor should be especially entertaining next Sunday. -
#booksoftheendtimes
Sarah Palin's Goin' Rogue An American Tail, Also: A Review
No, we have not read Sarah Palin's new book, Goin' Rogue. But we can say with some authority that it is the most moving and affecting memoir published in the English language since Speak, Memory.
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#feuds
Hero Pilot Smacks Down Fancy Book-Learnin' About Hero Plane!
Unflappable (except by geese, ha) hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger is not sitting idly by while fancy writer William Langewiesche (pron. "Lain-guh-wees-chay-guevara") offers up his trashy "scientific theories" about Sully's famous crashed plane. Everyone listen, Sully is saying something confrontational! More » -
#bookreviews
Tao Lin's Guardian book review. Related: Going to hospital, back at 3. Brain: exploded.
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#money
Sarah Palin: Mean John McCain Made Me Pay My Own Legal Bills (Also, You Betcha, Etc)
Today in "what on earth is Sarah Palin talking about": is John McCain responsible for all those legal debts she accrued that forced her to stop governing Alaska and instead write a steamy political romance-thriller? More » -
#reportersinperil
Euna Lee Wins Imprisoned Reporters' Book Deal Race
Imprisoned journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were freed from North Korea's clutches in August. One week later, Ling—the more telegenic one, with the famous sister—was shopping a book. But Euna Lee beat her to a book deal! More » -
#bookclub
The Last Resort: Adventures in the Kitchen of a Failed State
Today in the Gawker Book Club: starting now or so, Douglas Rogers is joining us to discuss The Last Resort, his new memoir about Zimbabwe. Asking him questions in comments is novelist, playright and screenwriter Damian Lanigan. More » -
#alumreport
Sheila McClear Sells Awesome Book
Demonstrably hardcore Gawker alum Sheila McClear has sold her book about life in the bygone Times Square peep shows, Last of the Live Nude Girls, to Soft Skull Press. Everyone is required to buy two copies. [Galleycat] UPDATE: More » -
#scientology
Tom Cruise Controls Books and Bottles with His Mind
Tom Cruise! He is so crazy, what with the Scientology madness. It's been so long since we heard examples of his craziness. Thank god there is a new tell-all book! In which Tom Cruise controls inanimate objects, with brainwaves. More » -
#advice
Brooklyn Writers: Hide
Authors: never get conned by a friendly reporter into doing one of those "Let's Explore This Famous Writers' Work Space" stories. Your cool office is only cool in secret. We mean you, Jonathan Lethem! More » -
#breakups
Julia Allison's Secret, Staggeringly Heartbreaking Boyfriend
Julia Allison has broken up with her unlikely boyfriend, Christopher "Toph" Eggers. Yes, that Eggers: the younger brother of author Dave Eggers written about in Eggers' breakthrough memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
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#jobs
Google's Broken Hiring Process
Google strives to hire "the world's best engineers,"and has crafted an "interminable" interview process dotted with puzzles and brainteasers to do so. One little problem: the process tends to give the worst scores to the best future employees. More » -
#literature
Sarah Palin Is Finally a Regular Jus'-Folks Millionaire
Sarah Palin received at least $1.25 million to write her chapter book, Goin' Rogue, Also: An American Tail. If that is it, it is much less than Tina Fey got, which is amusing. More » -
#urbananthropology
Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
Twitter's not all narcissistic minutiae and celebrity retweets: Jonathan Ames used it to obtain a TV, from his employer, via "whining." More »
