When we last reported on the “Literature Litterer” (aka the Bookdrop Bandit aka the Colophon Coyote), it was still a mystery as to who dumped hundreds of books along the side… Read more »

Bookstores, like all businesses, are susceptible to fraud. However, all committed perpetrators of fraud know that targets like bookstores, which aren’t wildly profitable, tend to be a bit of a… Read more »

(Note: Spoilers for the HBO miniseries The Jinx follow.) Robert Durst’s first wife, Kathleen, disappeared. Decades later, his good friend Susan Berman was murdered in Los Angeles. Soon after, in Galveston,… Read more »

The Hunstville Times reports on an instructor recent running afoul of the authorities at the University of Alabama. Charles Christopher Horton was indicted on a felony ethics charge for requiring… Read more »

We all have that one biologist friend, right? The one who’s spent enough time in the lab and the field to be considered an authority on what in mass culture… Read more »

You may remember when we reported on the fake Scholastic textbook scam, in which schools received phony invoices from “Scholastic School Supply LLC” for books they hadn’t actually purchased. The Daily… Read more »

Kansan serial killer Dennis Rader murdered at least ten people, gaining the moniker “BTK” for “Bind, Torture, Kill” due to his method of killing. He sent the police taunting letters between kills,… Read more »

For a company that’s won the coveted F rating from the Better Business Bureau, Scholastic School Supply isn’t giving up their dreams to scam money out of schools nationwide. They’re… Read more »

The Nabokov Museum in St. Petersburg has been vandalized in recent weeks by a group calling itself the “St. Petersburg Cossacks.” The group, according to Russian news outlet RIA Novosti,… Read more »

Like the very best genre conventions it is characterized in every aspect by incredible enthusiasm… Read more »