Dibs

In this lushly sensual new venture by the Harvard-grad (and hot) author of last year’s lesbian-coming-of-age-in-India tour-de-force Babyji, a reclusive and long-celibate Indian author decamps to France, where he meets in the flesh his biggest fan, previously known only online. The ensuing summer is one of achy waiting, of funny only-in-France snark (one character, the [...]

She’s on trial in London for murdering an old woman, and 18-year-old Kemi Adeyoola claims that the pile of notes which lawmakers are calling her “murder manual” are instead the manuscript for a novel-in-progress. She wrote the notes while in jail for shoplifting when she was sixteen. After serving that sentence, Adeyoola became a prostitute, [...]

In a bold marketing move, the Prime Shine Express Car Wash in California’s agricultural San Joaquin Valley area has released its first comic book, Adventures of Prime Shine Man: Attack of the Pesky Critters. In the book, brightly colored birds and insects (“Miss Kito,” “Superfly,” “Chuck Berries,” etc.) assault a jeeplike vehicle whose young-couple inhabitants [...]

When he’s not fomenting Mexican revolution as the spearhead of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), appearing sporadically masked with knives at his waist and a bullet-belt slung around his neck, accompanied by his deformed-rooster mascot, elusive guerrilla Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos is a novelist. Due in September from New York’s Akashic Books, The Uncomfortable [...]

It’s not all about Downward-facing Dog, headstands and the Lotus position. Psychotherapist and yoga teacher Cope reveals that there’s more to the ancient Indian practice than just postures and breathing techniques. He focuses instead on the Yoga Sutra, a guide to proper living, eating, thinking and speaking penned some eighteen centuries ago by the sage [...]

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 [...]

An apparent ritual slaughter in an historic Parisian church, with gory bits scattered around the altar, blood seeping into the fifteenth-century stone and a hunky but deep and emotionally vulnerable forensic sleuth scouring the scene ten years later for clues — so is there a new wave of Catholic-France-related murder mysteries or what? May paces [...]

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 [...]