Sam Jones at Goldenrulejones.com links to a Chicago Sun-Times article in which that paper’s new literary editor introduces herself. In “A Book Lover’s Approach to Her New Job,” Cheryl Reed tells us that after devouring a biography of Simone de Beauvoir, she felt “as if I had lost a wise, old friend. In my grief, [...]
Wendy, that sweet Peter Pan character, meets Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz and Alice from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and all three have explicit erotic hijinx in a forthcoming graphic novel due out next month which representatives of England’s Great Ormond Hospital for Children, to which J.M. Barrie left the copyright of his classic [...]
Hailed as a “spa day for your brain,” last weekend’s Book Group Expo in San Jose, California featured celebrity authors including Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, Rabih Alameddine and others yukking it up for members of book clubs and reading groups. Allegedly the high point was a skit involving Tan (in disguise) with Sam Barry, Susanne [...]
Pete Doherty is a British rock star with bad teeth who was recently photographed sticking a hypodermic needle into a young woman on a restroom floor, then claimed that he wasn’t injecting drugs into her but drawing her blood, because he happens to make art using human blood. Now we learn that his first book [...]
Australian sports celebrity Dr. Ric Charlesworth coached the Hockeyroos — the national women’s field-hockey team — all the way to world dominance including three Olympic gold medals. And he credits Shakespeare for his success, claiming that the Bard’s insights helped him help his athletes fulfill their potential. According to UQ News Online, Charlesworth will speak [...]
The authors met while working in the kitchen of a trendy San Francisco restaurant. Now they’ve got two trendy Cal-Mex restaurants of their own in the Bay Area, one of which is in Berkeley and bears the same name as this book, which is a Mexified play on the authors’ names, sort of, and the [...]
Tori Spelling angrily denies claims that she forcibly excluded her new husband’s ex from a recent awards ceremony in Toronto (a city which, according to a recent story posted here at Dibs! and confirmed by our Vancouver pal Emiko, everyone apparently hates). Canadian TV personality and film actor Mary Jo Eustace, ex-wife of the new [...]
According to CBS4.com in Boston, a new sex-ed book for preschoolers by a Cambridge grandmother has just been published and will go on sale July 25. It’s Not the Stork! is aimed at readers aged four and up. Robie Harris’ previous book, It’s So Amazing, covered the same topic for seven-year-olds. On her Web site, [...]
KGW.com, Seattle’s channel 8, is reporting that a local fire department’s hazmat team was called out after a library in Ballard, Washington was evacuated today because of a suspicious substance deposited in the book drop. A librarian complained that after touching it, her hands began tingling. Results of the investigation haven’t yet been released.
She earned nearly $2 million, partly from her book Mark of Voodoo, but now it’s thirty months in federal prison for “voodoo chief” and “shaman psychologist” and convicted tax fraudster Sharon Caulder. Having practiced a lucrative form of psychotherapy by which clients in Northern California paid $300 a pop to have Caulder perform exorcisms and [...]