Oh, God, a Mike Pence bio is coming
O! What fresh hell is this. Last week, John Maher reported for Publishers Weekly that Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press is crashing The Shadow President, a biography of Vice President… Read more »
OK, but are Trump books really selling as much as it feels like they are?
Disclaimer: the methodology herein is, at best, dubious. But after reading Jennifer Calfas’s report for TIME that the top three best-selling books in 2018 so far have all been related… Read more »
The creator of Will and Grace is donating Marlon Bundo books to every grammar school in Indiana
Over the past few weeks, we’ve written quite a bit about Marlon Bundo, Mike Pence’s pet bunny and the star of two recent picture books — one by the Pence family,… Read more »
Independent booksellers continue to protest Chronicle’s handling of A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
The release of John Oliver’s parody book project, A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, has been surprisingly complicated. First announced on Oliver’s HBO show Last Week Tonight, the… Read more »
Indies can finally sell Last Week Tonight’s gay bunny book
A few days ago, we reported on A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, the latest offering from the fourth-wall smashers of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver’s much-loved fake news show. The… Read more »
James Comey’s book is getting outsold by a gay bunny named Marlon Bundo
Books, as anyone in publishing will tell you, are like little fragmentation grenades made out of ideas. They explode—bang!—and just like that there are new ideas everywhere, embedded in the puckered… Read more »
Amazon and Russia and adult coloring books, oh my!
So here’s a weird one. As Danuta Kean reports for the Guardian, academic Timothy Snyder, who wrote the post-Trump smash On Tyranny, and The Bodley Head, his UK publisher (and an… Read more »
Anti-normalization Tips: Occupy the Interrobang (or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the ‽)
There’s a face I keep making as I talk about Donald Trump. It’s a kind of scrunched-up half-shrug, accompanied by a rise in intonation. It seems to be a way of broadcasting… Read more »
Trump-supporting university president loves free speech, promptly censors an anti-Trump student
You may have read recently about Liberty University students’ response to university president Jerry Falwell Jr.’s support of the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump. Falwell’s contentious discipleship has survived even the release of the… Read more »
Anna Politkovskaya has a question for Pence and Trump; had she not been assassinated ten years ago today, she’d be the one to ask it
As we mentioned last week, today marks the tenth anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya’s assassination. Politkovskaya, a ferocious journalist at Russia’s Novaya Gazyeta newspaper, became well-known for her trenchant-but-calm reporting style, vigorous critique of… Read more »