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Her book The Piano Teacher features a protagonist who slashes her private parts with a razor blade, urinates in the street when she gets turned on, and begs her young lover to beat the hell out of her. Translated into English from her native German, typical lines from her books include “Erika is baked inside [...]

We’ve already told you about Stephen Baldwin’s born-again memoir. But who knew that the whole Baldwin fam-damn-ily was harboring a lit lust? Alec Baldwin wants to publish a book, A Promise to Ourselves, about his messy divorce from Kim Basinger. But the blonde My Stepmother Is an Alien star filed a motion earlier this year [...]

The Christian Deer Hunters Association publishes a prayerbook with antlers and venison in mind. On offer at the CDHA’s Web site, Devotions for Deer Hunters includes ninety devotionals by forty devout shooters, produced by the Minnesota-based nonprofit whose stated goal “is to reveal and encourage a Biblical World View approach to deer hunting. Some of [...]

We were startled to see that billionaire speculator George Soros — affectionately known as “the man who broke the Bank of England” — has apparently adopted a lucrative new career: novelist. According to the Louisville Courier-Journal on Sunday, June 11, “Novelist George Soros, an international financier and philanthropist, and Joan Didion, a writer celebrated in [...]

How much do you want North Korea to know about science and technology? “In a bid to boost development of science and technology, North Korea held an international science [and] technology book fair in Pyongyang,” reports the Korea Times. “According to the North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the 5th Pyongyang International Science and Technology [...]

Saigon doctor and internationally renowned “faciotherapist” Bui Quoc Chau is outraged because a book he wrote in 1984 about treating patients based on the locations of their facial moles has recently appeared in Spanish, French and German editions with someone else’s byline instead of his. The byline is that of Le Quang Nhuan, one of [...]

Summer Hayes owns over 1,200 My Little Ponies. Remember those little mass-produced plastic horses with lush plastic manes that were marketed with corporate precision to preteen girls in an era of soulless toys and synthetic identity? Neeeiigh! Which one was your fav? April Mist, Heatherwinds, Misty Blue, or Penny Candy? Indiana collector Hayes has been [...]

You saw this coming. It was just a matter of where and when. The latest answer is: India! Members of the Mizoram Producers’ Guild, a filmmakers’ organization in the northeastern satate of Mizoram, protested both the book and film versions of The Da Vinci Code, calling them blasphemous, and burned Dan Brown in effigy, according [...]

Fifty years ago, animals with the wrong numbers of heads or legs would have been taxidermed and turned into sideshow exhibits. But now one such creature appears on daytime talk shows. Does that mean we’re more kindhearted — or that we still love gawking at sideshow freaks but we just can’t admit that’s what we’re [...]

C. Max Magee’s entertaining literary blog with the unlikely name The Millions consistently serves up relevant book news and incisive commentary on selected new books. Touching on both the content of the books themselves and their significance within the culture at large, The Millions makes itself an indispensable read for the savvy book-blog aficionado. The [...]