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more about #literature more comments → heywhat: The book should be called "A Million Little Excuses". She takes no responsibility for any of her own screw ups but there is plenty of finger pointing... more » PaisleyPajamas: The use of "cobelligerents" is an interesting choice, because it refers to allies in war. #sarahpalin more » deepey: Dang, I thought. Sarah Palin write a book? Have you heard Sarah Palin speak? #sarahpalin more » SaraRueful: She doesn't care about her wedding ring, but won't take a shower without her flag pin. You GUYS, we, the American people, are more important to her t... more » wundersmack: Nincompoop or no, Palin still draws a huge audience. Note the views on any Gawker post regarding her and/or Levi (though it is also telling that the W... more » Spirit Fingers: "Holy Batshit Buffoonery!" Not going anywhere with this in any Palinesque way. Just stating fact. #sarahpalin more » PontiusPirate: This one's for you, Trig. #sarahpalin more » PaisleyPajamas: Delooooooosional... #sarahpalin more » jbwan: "Eventually, it overwhelmed us- and was obviously meant to." Ending a sentence with a preposition!! What an uneducated frontier-like yokel hick bitc... more » OliversArmy: "In years to come people would ask, What did he have that Carter didn't?" Alzheimer's. #sarahpalin more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Goddamn, Pareene. Also: "Why did he allow America to be humiliated and pushed around?" Should read: "Why did my daddy allow me to be humiliated and ... more » misslinda: Page 352 ventures into Harlequin Romance Novel territory, demonstrating that if she knows nothing else, she really does know her core audience. #sarah... more » Jes St.Lawrence: This stuff reads like the kind of thing you see debunked on snopes.com, although without so many ALL CAPS passages. Who taught these dumb monkeys to ... more » Claire Buoyant: Enlighten me, but what does Andree McLeod have to do with falafels? I thought Andrea Mackris was the falafel lady. #sarahpalin more » meechybee: They can see that font size from Russia! #sarahpalin more » -
#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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#advertising
The amazing process of creating the marketing phrase "Strawberry Flavored Juice Drink Blend."
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#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 » -
#highschool
Distinguished Novelist Engages in Dignified Page Six Pissing Match With Ex
Weep for literary culture. After Salman Rushdie's ex-girlfriend accused him of still pining for his ex-wife Padma Lakshmi in Page Six yesterday, Rushdie has responded in kind today. We are all trapped in the eighth grade, which never ends. More » -
#literature
Palin's Ghostwriter Finishes Early
Oh, god, Sarah Palin named her terrible book Going Rogue. She literally did this thing. It is a reference to when she lost the election for John McCain. More » -
#publishing
Happy Dan Brown Day
Hooray! Today you can finally buy Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, a new interactive novel about a heroic professor with a mullet who fights Catholics and Masons. It will save publishing, and ruin Washington DC. More » -
#makeovers
Bright Lights, Big City Gets Fancy New Cover For 25th Birthday
Happy 25th anniversary of coked-out young dudes writing novels about being coked-out young dudes! To celebrate, Random House is finally updating the cover of Bright Lights, Big City. More » -
#books
Let's Discuss Bernie 'Winky Dink' Madoff's Penis Size
Sheryl Weinstein was pretty broken up when she lost millions to Bernie Madoff, who was also her secret lovahhhhhh. But now she's telling the world all the sexy details of Bernie sexy time, in a book, for satisfaction, and riches.
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#literature
Lord of the Flies Scribe Once Attempted to Rape a Teenager
An upcoming biography on Nobel laureate William Golding says that the author tried to rape a 15-year-old named Dora when he was 18 and on break from his first year as a student at Oxford. More » -
#literature
Meet the Scorpions, Boston's 'All Hard-Guy' Book Club
Your book club is so gay! That's what the Scorpions, a group of hard 20 and 30-something guys who meet for PBRs in Boston shitholes to talk about books, say. Their motto? "We read. We bleed. And we kick ass." More » -
#literature
Nancy Grace's Novel Sounds Compelling and Very Original
Famous prosecutor and TV commentator with absolutely no respect whatsoever for the fundamental principles of Western Criminal Justice Nancy Grace wrote a novel! It's about a hard-charging no-nonsense prosecutor.... More » -
#books
Harvard Grad Writes Book About Harvard
It was apparently impossible for the New York Times' Charles McGrath to hate novelist Nick McDonell, once they met in person. Thankfully, as we are merely stealing from McGrath and not meeting young Nick, we shall not have that problem. More » -
#andnowhesdead
Sandford Dody, Ghostwriter
Sandford Dody, author of multiple best-sellers, died July 4 at 90 years old. If his name is unfamiliar, it may be because it did not appear on the covers of his books. More » -
#williamtvollmann
The Last of a Dying Breed
William T. Vollmann is a reclusive, eyebrowless (They were burned off in an accident at the North Pole) pistol-packing writer, and as such he is probably the last of a dying breed: The badass literary figure. More » -
#literature
'Boring Old Crap' Is Just a Britishism for 'Sparkling New Prose'
Want to hear a little anecdote about nice British writers being funny and British? Good. Here's a funny story about Zoë Heller, author of Notes on a Scandal, and Patrick Marber, who adapted the book into a movie. More » -
#movies
Atlas Shrugged Miniseries Will Bore the Motor of the World
Finally there will be one film to definitively separate stunted adolescent douchebags from regular people (besides Boondock Saints): Atlas Shrugged! Ayn Rand's million-page epic tale of monologuing in a ravine is going to be a movie. More » -
#literature
Adorable Literary Hoax Goes Entirely Unnoticed
In a 2004 issue of academic journal Modernism/Modernity, David Foster Wallace's short story collection Oblivion was reviewed by Jay Murray Siskind, a professor at Blacksmith College, and a fictional Don DeLillo character. And no one noticed! More » -
#printisdead
Dave Eggers Confident that America's Literature-Devouring Youth Will Save Print
You may recall a few weeks ago that Dave Eggers promised to email anyone who needed reassurance that print wasn't dying. He even emailed Gawker! In a Q & A with Salon, Eggers insists that America's children are print's savior. More » -
#literature
Dying Mag Pays Fortune For Dead Author's Unfinished Book
Famed literary journal and titty mag Playboy acquired the exclusive serial rights to the unfinished final novella of author Vladimir Nabokov. They won the rights with flowers! And also lots of money. And also The New Yorker turned it down. More » -
#europeisdifferent
European Officials Keep Reading In Public
Here is the German Economy Minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, reading a fairy tale about the exchange rate to some children at the behest of "the German Center for Fairy Tale Culture." Ok, Germany! Can you imagine if Geithner did this? More »
