Emperor Franzen announces book club
Dennis Johnson
Okay, so on Friday Oprah Winfrey announced her solution to the Middle-East crisis — no, wait, I mean she announced that she had discovered the cure for cancer — no,… Read more »
Okay, so on Friday Oprah Winfrey announced her solution to the Middle-East crisis — no, wait, I mean she announced that she had discovered the cure for cancer — no,… Read more »
Politicians write books. Its just a fact of life. Many of these books go on to be bestsellers (need I reference Bill Clinton, or god-forbid Sarah Palin?). But many of… Read more »
Random House and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs have settled a lawsuit over a $300,000 advance given to Combs for a memoir he never wrote. In an Associated Press wire story,… Read more »
In a Los Angeles Times commentary that starts by saying “most Americans seem ambivalent about [Michael] Jackson’s guilt or innocence,” then says in the next sentence that the “accusations of… Read more »
In the wake of Oprah Winfrey choosing three books by William Faulkner for her Oprah’s Book Club, and thereby creating yet another massive media stir, novelist Marianne Apostolides says, “What… Read more »
The letter signed by 158 prominent female writers and sent to Oprah Winfrey pleading with her to stop using classic titles in her book club and resume promoting contemporary novels… Read more »
Convicted perjurer Martha Stewart is about to become an ex-con, and a lengthy report in Newsweek by Keith Naughton talks about the upcoming “Martha Makeover” when she gets out. But… Read more »
Random House is suing Sean “P. Diddy” Combs for the return of a $300,000 advance for a book he never wrote. As Hillel Italie reports in an Associated Press wire… Read more »
Kinky Friedman, the some-time country singer (“Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed”) and some-time mystery writer (Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned), announced last… Read more »
Orange Prize-winner Andrea Levy can now add the £25,000 Whitbread Prize for book of the year to her resume. As a BBC News wire story reports, Levy won her second… Read more »