A story on the RealClearPolitics site reports: “Reality TV star and real estate mogul Donald Trump is working on a policy book, which Regnery Publishing will release in conjunction with… Read more »
Newspapers can get away with a lot. Libel is not easy to prove and the protective aura of incidental misinformation can help any casuist hide their ulterior motives. It’s been… 2 / Read more »
Two Montana state legislators have announced a filing in federal court in Helena seeking a class-action lawsuit against Three Cups of Tea author Greg Mortenson and his Central Asia Institute… 2 / Read more »
Embattled author Greg Mortenson has given just two interviews since 60 Minutes and Jon Krakauer attacked the finances of his Central Asia Institute charity and his two wildly popular non-fiction… Read more »
Via GalleyCat. Literary scandals, a showdown between two bestselling authors, dueling Asian charities, a revolutionary new electronic reading platform startup, and a free content promotional giveaway straight out of… 4 / Read more »
In the realm of biblical scholarship the big find often turns out to be more dubious than Judas Iscariot’s presence at a dinner party. In recent years we’ve seen a… 5 / Read more »
CNN’s Peter Bergen reports that “Greg Mortenson, the high-profile advocate of girls’ education in Afghanistan and Pakistan, has been forced to defend his best-selling book Three Cups of Tea: One… Read more »
An author who says her agent swiped her book project and turned it into a bestseller — for herself — has apparently won vindication in a lawsuit settlement. A New… Read more »
Yet another member of the disgraced Bush administration wants a shot at redemption in the eyes of history: An Associated Press wire story by Hillel Italie reports that Secretary of… Read more »
So Ben Greenman, New Yorker editor and author of the recent hit book Correspondences from Hotel St. George Press (which, for a beautiful but expensive avant-gardist book that’s an unsual,… 4 / Read more »