A UK jury’s being forced to read a book on Jerusalem artichokes in a landmark vegecide trial
Don’t you just it it when your family comes to blows over artichokes? No? Well then you’re nothing like this trio of sisters from Hertfordshire, England. Back in 2014, retired nurse… Read more »
Maybe we can blame the canon for the incel rebellion?
A little more than a month ago, Alek Minassian murdered ten people in Toronto in an effort to advance the “incel rebellion” — a movement among extremist members of the… Read more »
Let’s read into the books Harvey Weinstein brought with him to court, shall we?
Given that he was probably supposed to be paying attention during his arraignment and that he seems like more of a look-at-your-iPhone than a read-a-book commuter, it’s confusing that Harvey… Read more »
James Mattis may well be a war criminal, and no amount of reading will change that
At CNBC.com, Amanda Macias has written an admiring profile of James “Mad Monk Dog Warrior” Mattis and his voracious reading habits. Macias documents Mattis’s longstanding reputation as a bookworm, citing colleagues… Read more »
Romance author to other romance authors: Don’t you dare say “cocky” (yes, really)
There’s so much wretchedness in the world these days, and we hate to add to your ennui, but answer this: if romance writers can’t insert penis euphemisms into their titillating titles, WHAT IS… Read more »
Trump’s new national security advisor chaired a fake news outlet
For the Intercept, Lee Fang zeroes in on what is perhaps the most horrifying reason why John Bolton is not right for the job of National Security Advisor, to which Donald Trump recently… Read more »
Milo Yiannopoulos’s lawsuit against his publisher goes down in flames
Let’s check-in on everyone’s favourite bigoted right-wing jerk, Milo Yiannopoulos. The former senior editor at alt-right site Breitbart News, Yiannopoulos gained notoriety for his offensive stances on… well, practically everything, including feminism, homosexuality,… Read more »
Punctuation, Lesson One: From the James Woods School of Online Defamation
Hello students, and welcome to the James Woods School of Online Defamation. This course is Defamation 101: How To Call People Nazis Without Calling Them Nazis. Now, you’re all here because… Read more »
Alex Jones’s book proposal is the most Alex Jones of all book proposals
We in the book business have long since struck an uneasy peace with the breathless and lofty language of the sales pitch. We edit world-class literary prose all day, then we leap into the purple,… Read more »
New York prisons are severely limiting prisoners’ access to books
Earlier this week, we wrote about a policy that banned inmates in at least two New Jersey prisons from reading Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in… Read more »