literature

Happy Dan Brown Day

Pareene · 09/15/09 12:01PM

Hooray! Today you can finally buy Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, a new interactive novel about a heroic professor with a mullet who fights Catholics and Masons. It will save publishing, and ruin Washington DC.

The Last of a Dying Breed

The Cajun Boy · 07/29/09 05:58AM

William T. Vollmann is a reclusive, eyebrowless (They were burned off in an accident at the North Pole) pistol-packing writer, and as such he is probably the last of a dying breed: The badass literary figure.

European Officials Keep Reading In Public

Pareene · 07/02/09 04:29PM

Here is the German Economy Minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, reading a fairy tale about the exchange rate to some children at the behest of "the German Center for Fairy Tale Culture." Ok, Germany! Can you imagine if Geithner did this?

Kanye West Doesn't Read, Only Co-Writes Crap Books

The Cajun Boy · 05/28/09 12:36AM

Despite being the son of an English professor, maniacal all-caps blogger Kanye West claims he's a "proud non-reader," though he's co-written a book of "Kanye-isms" that he thinks you should totally read. It's 52 pages long, some of which are completely blank!