Those folks at the New York Post—love em or hate em, they sure know how to write a snappy headline! "Too many damn ho's." Is it a double-entendre on someone's name? Is it a play off of a direct quote in the story? Nope. It's just a straight up headline about how there are "Too many damn ho's" out there. Haha. And how!

Apparently sales of the book To Kill a Mockingbird have skyrocketed 123 percent on Amazon.co.uk after "footie" star David Beckham and his wife Victoria, the Posh of Spice, named their daughter "Harper." Now that Oprah has retired, an author's only hope for a bestseller is getting a celeb baby named after them.

Republican presidential candidate and history buff Michele Bachmann has signed a deal with Penguin Group USA to write a memoir. It will be called America of Heart or Rogueish Goer or My Father's Flag or The Coming Battle With the Mormon Horde or somesuch and come out this fall, roughly one year before her election as 45th president of the United States.

VS Naipaul is a winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, and is considered one of the greatest British writers of his generation. So he must be a smart guy, right? Sure, sure.

A mysterious man named "Stephen from Baltimore" has initiated a project called Ulysses Meets Twitter 2011, which is an attempt to translate James Joyce's famous experimental novel Ulysses into 140-character size chunks. Here's the kicker, he needs you, yes you to help!

Like a haggard mother willing to sacrifice all her once-cherished notions of "responsible" parenting just to momentarily silence the ceaseless wails of her wayward toddler, the Daily Beast is now allowing Meghan McCain to write "comedy" pieces.

The ol' Catholic church is revising the Bible again. Should that even be allowed? Anyhow. They don't want any bad PR, for Jesus, so they're removing the term "booty," as in "stuff you steal after a war," and replacing it with "spoils" of war. And look at this bullshit:

For all you literary gamers out there, two tech-savvy literary nerds have created an 8-bit video game version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel The Great Gatsby get ready to waste your entire afternoon.

The greatest literary mind of our generation, Jersey Shore heffalump Snooki, releases her first novel A Shore Thing tomorrow. The highlights are just as typically horrible as you could possibly imagine.

Good news, educators: the book-banners are more organized than ever! Instead of lone nuts calling for books to be banned, now it's national groups of nuts, like the Parents Against Bad Books in Schools. And what makes a book "bad?"

What do people do after they graduate from a prestigious writing program? They argue in this comments section.

He's an idiot, so probably. The Huffington Post's Ryan Grimm has identified several passages in Bush's new book Decision Points that he says are "lifted" from some of his advisers' books.

[Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa gets out of a cab in New York today after being named the recipient of this year's Nobel Prize in literature. Image via AP]

Congratulations, American readers: cinematic bro blogger Tucker Max's new book debuted at #3 on the New York Times bestseller list. Since it's called Assholes Finish First, we can still laugh at him. But it's a sort of hollow, depressed laugh.

Once again, an American writer did not win the Nobel Prize in literature. Some weirdo Peruvian named Mario Vargas Llosa, who wrote like definitive chronicles of military dictatorships or whatever, won the damn thing. Next year, Jodi Picoult. Next year.

The Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced October 7 in Sweden. We've got your betting odds right here, fresh from international oddsmakers Ladbrokes. Now you can totally dominate your office Nobel Prize in Literature pool. (You have one, right?)

Oh fucking snap bros, drop everything and rush down to the Borders on Wall Street, where Tucker Max is just finishing a book signing! His new book comes out today! Send pics! Send reviews! Send medication! It's on again! Damn.

Behold, the "Blog Writer Dress" and "Blog Editor Dress," from a store that also sells a "Literary Arts Dress," "Journalism Dress," and "Texture Message Dress." By assessing these outfits' relative cuteness, we can figure which kind of writing is best.

The New York Times ran a profile today on two 27-year-olds who are working as the live-in caretakers for the Ralph Waldo Emerson House in Concord, MA. So, cool, neat job. Though one series of paragraphs chills to the bone.

Before anti-masturbation advocate Christine O'Donnell won a Republican Senate primary, she was a Catholic Columnist! And in one 2003 essay, "The Women of Middle Earth," she analyzed the sexy sexy ladies in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. What's her take?