On Friday, Dibs! reported on dozens of new libraries being built in rural Afghanistan. Now the San Francisco Chronicle notes that Afghanis in the town of Herat, freed from years of shariah law, are getting back into the habit of reading … Shakespeare. At a performance recently as hundreds watched, “five women took off their [...]
A Jordanian who used free-access computers in an Ohio public library to visit jihadist Web sites and send and receive emails about nuclear bombs and other weapons claims that he isn’t a terrorist — he’s just writing a book. According to Ha’aretz.com, Mohammad Radwan Obeid aroused the attention of a librarian in Troy, Ohio, who [...]
Not one, not two, but 26 entire libraries have been created and filled with books around Taloqan (depicted at left), the formerly Taliban-held capital of Afghanistan’s war-torn northeastern Takhar province. Within recent memory, rifle fire and exploding bombs were part of the daily retinue in this remote town and its surrounding district where women wear [...]
She posed nude recently for Playboy and now she’s about to become an author! Cindy Margolis — described on her Web site as “a desired Supermodel, accomplished Host, Actress and Producer … a self -made icon of the of the Twenty-First Century” — hey, we cut and pasted that verbatim … is now writing her [...]
Kola Boof —author of such books as Diary of a Lost Girl, Flesh and the Devil and Long Train to the Redeeming Sin, who claims to have been held captive by Osama bin Laden for several months in 1996 and, in her own words, “shared his bed” — is now offended (according to a press [...]
GalleyCat addresses an article in the Newark Star-Ledger about “gangsta lit” — novels such as G-Spot, Candy Licker and Thug-A-Licious aimed at “serving the appetites of a certain segment of young black urban America … 18 to 35 and interested in rap music and street life.” A Pocket Books exec calls it “the largest growing [...]
Between them, they did so many things: shot up drugs, married Playboy and Baywatch gals, died and came back to life, went to jail for assaulting Pamela Anderson, and played hair metal for decades. Now you can read books about them! Perth, Australia native Paul Miles – who calls himself “the world’s #1 Mötley Crüe [...]