An upcoming bio reveals that Mr. Passive Resistance really knew how to party. The more you know! • Gawker offers some alternate cover designs for George W. Bush’s upcoming memoir. Hilarity ensues. • Someone explains the meaning of all those prefixes you typically see in front of the word ‘editor’. Hilarity ensues. • Particularly ballsy [...]

Copyright… OR COPYWRONG? • Finally, the perfect condiment to go with that big ol’ bowl of Soylent Green… • Turns out heaps of people are complaining about Twilight, but not for the reason you think… • The Fifty Best Historical Literary Put-Downs. BONUS: “I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it [...]

Swimming in the Nile: Your #1 source for literary-inspired Norwegian comedy! • Kitty Kelley’s highly unauthorized biography of Oprah Winfrey has set the interwebs ablaze with ‘revelatory information’ about every facet of the screen queen’s life.   Including lesbian allegations, prostitution allegations, racism allegations, family spats and accusations of outright lies concerning Oprah’s fabled childhood [...]

Steig Larsson has overtaken death metal to become Sweden’s #1 export. • Earlier this week, Scrabble announced that it would be changing its rules to allow the use of proper nouns. Miffed fans respond by uniting in protest: ‘If anyone puts down “Reebok” in a game, I will have to resort to violence.’ Unsurprisingly, the [...]