She’s Osama bin Laden’s ex-sex slave, she’s topless and reading a Bible in one of the photographs that appears on her own web site, and she wishes people would stop calling her a Republican. Sudanese hottie Kola Boof, author of such books as Diary of a Lost Girl, Flesh and the Devil and Long Train [...]
Residents of Gabriel García Márquez’s Colombian hometown, Aracataca, failed last weekend to summon the energy to change its name to Macondo — the name of the fictionalized town in which the Nobelist’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude took place. A majority of voters approved the proposal on Sunday — 3,342 locals voting for the [...]
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 [...]
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.