“They cut me in my stomach and my guts were laid out, hanging from my stomach. It was like when you gut a fish,” said rap artist and author-to-be James Lathlin after a gang attacked his head, chest and abdomen with knives outside his Manitoba, Canada home last Saturday. A devotee of the late singer [...]
“Ambassador Osama bin Laden” is welcomed with open arms to New York City in a crazed fantasy-future America that suffers under “oppression by ultra-liberal extremists” who let the United Nations control the US government. Osama secretly plans to nuke the Big Apple on 9/11’s twentieth anniversary. Who can save us? Only a biomechanically engineered Sean [...]
In today’s weird book news … there’s a crisis in the stuffed-animal industry! Plump squashy stuffed toys (which our Brit pals call “plush toys”) are expensive to transport and hard to keep clean in stores where disgusting little fingers streak them with effluent, according to a man whose company has spent ten years “developing products [...]
According to news reports today, Project Gutenberg and World eBook Library are teaming up to make 300,000 e-books — electronic digitized texts that you read on your computer screen instead of curled up on the couch — available for free between July 4 and August 4. That’s a lot of reading material to squeeze into [...]
One of the biggest and most iconic bookstores in one of America’s biggest book-towns is soon to be no more. Cody’s Books on Berkeley’s famous Telegraph Avenue will shut down in July. Hands are wringing from coast to coast, and the wringers wail: “But why?” Well, because of money. And how not to make any. [...]