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more about #novels more comments → Rozelle’s Bagman: Amish overwork their animal, he knew. Fanatics. Hump their women...standing up, out in the fields, wearing clothes, just hoist black skirts and there ... more » BookishLookish: The bonnet *is* the vagina, HamNo. Or a highly fetishized version of it. I once wrote a porn story wherein an Amish guy comes to Philadelphia and fuc... more » Juancho: One of my favorite Letterman Top10s, ever: December 1, 1989 Top 10 Amish Pick-up Lines 10. Are thee at barn-raisings often? 9. If our religion didn... more » RheaPollstry: My mother is always reading Christian romance novels. I think it's just a symptom of how much she hates her life. more » resipsaloquacious: I'd put my furniture in her pretzel oven. more » naugahydeinplainsight: Can a remake of Witness be far behind? more » MilkNCookies: I'm sure the butter churning scenes make readers melt. more » Spirit Fingers: Happy 9/9/09 (upside down, devil-day) to you too, Hamilton! This is exactly the kind of sin everyone's talking about, obviously. more » yourfriendandneighbor: So, like, who is buying these books? Non-Amish I presume? more » naugahydeinplainsight: Gee Ham, where are those tingly Amish women wearing their bonnets these days? more » Slackferno: I just Sanjay'd a little in my Gupta. more » onebadclam: Kirkus Reviews calls it "formulaic and simplistic." So it is just like her show? more » Nic Fit: Half her callers on her show start of with "Nancy, I just want to thank you for the work that you do." in a thick Southern accent. They then go on to ... more » Botswana Meat Commission FC: Has there ever been a full-length magazine hit piece on this "woman"? I'm genuinely curious. She must have this huge nightly audience of insane peopl... more » secretagentman: Fingers crossed she does the audio version. I can use it to keep teenagers off my lawn! more » -
#books
Can Bonnet Porn Save Publishing?
Jesus Christ, do you have any idea how much money there is to be made in the Amish porn business? Lots. And by "Amish porn" we mean "Devilish books in which a lady feels a certain tingle beneath her bonnet." 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 » -
#chartjunk
Does This Look Like On the Road to You?
Stephanie Posavec's infographic literary maps have been catching a lot of attention, but let's take a closer look. As NotCot explains, the map represents Jack Kerouac's classic beat novel On the Road, "exhibit[ing] scientific rigor and precision in their formulation: meticulous scouring the surface of the text, highlighing and noting sentence length, prosody, and themes..." But... why?! They look pretty, yet are completely useless, and only notable as an exercise in obsession. Without the explanation, the abstract images might be artistic ad graphics. We're reminded of a word coined by infographics master Edward Tufte: "chartjunk: useless, non-informative, or information-obscuring elements of quantitative information displays." The artist's explanation of how the map was compiled follows. More »
