Noted porn-a-roonie fan Ted Cruz makes fun of Bill Clinton’s book tour; irony itself said to be in critical condition
If you were smelling sulphur yesterday, it’s probably because Ted Cruz was back in the news. Cruz, a cascading font of quasi-human repugnancy, magister to vermin, and genius fucking impressionist, drew attention with a speech… Read more »
Macmillan is on course to have two million-copy-sellers in one year
As we noted earlier this week, James Comey’s memoir A Higher Loyalty had an historic opening weeks of sales, with more than 600,000 units sold across all formats, and more than… Read more »
“English Only”? I thought this was America!
Given the range of xenophobic, anti-immigration policies implemented or proposed by the Trump Administration, it’s been surprising to see that federal legislation to make English the official language of the United States… Read more »
Cynthia Nixon, Anne Hathaway, and Bill Clinton to headline National Book Awards
The National Book Awards ceremony is one of the biggest events of the year for the book publishing industry, and the National Book Foundation has just announced that Cynthia Nixon… Read more »
James Comey is shopping a book; also, impeachment
Now that he has some spare time on his hands, former FBI director James Comey—who was suddenly, unceremoniously dismissed from his post in May—is apparently shopping a book proposal around… Read more »
Happy eighty-eighth birthday of Adrienne Rich, everybody
The world is a crazy medley of cymbals and cuckoo-clock noises, and it’s an excellent moment to reach for ballast to the writing of Adrienne Rich, who would have turned eighty-eight today.… Read more »
Curtis Sittenfeld imagines what Hillary’s life would have looked like without Bill
The Clintons really aren’t going anywhere. In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour at a Women for Women International event last week, Hillary Clinton announced that she is “back to… Read more »
Bill Clinton and James Patterson collaborate on a novel, The President Is Missing
Ya heard? President Bill “The Comeback Kid”* Clinton is teaming up with James Patterson to co-author a new book called The President Is Missing — a novel, alas. It will be… Read more »
Donald Trump doesn’t read, and that’s not even the scary part
Well, okay. Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP candidate for president, isn’t much of a reader, as the Washington Post’s Marc Fisher reports. And, well, yeah, really, no one, absolutely no one, is surprised. Back… Read more »
1995 book reveals that Jeb Bush is a fan of shame
Books by politicians usually have two things in common: 1) they have sublimely generic titles and 2) they don’t tend to be very substantive. This is sensible. After all, the… Read more »