Arizona Governor Jan Brewer got in a heated argument with President Barack Obama over her book yesterday when she greeted him upon his arrival at the Phoenix airport. According to a report in the Boston Globe, they were arguing about her memoir, Scorpions for Breakfast, which defends…
Emily Cleaver worked at Quinto Bookshop in London for four years, and wrote to us with a link to her website, Small Plays About My Day. In it, she details some interactions with customers that are humorous, bizarre, and disconcerting, and give our first weird…
“Donald Trump has signed a deal to present his political philosophy in a new book.” according to this report on the Digital Spy website. The book was originally, “Designed to add some intellectual heft to Trump’s light political resume,” as first reported on the site…
A story on the RealClearPolitics site reports: “Reality TV star and real estate mogul Donald Trump is working on a policy book, which Regnery Publishing will release in conjunction with his potential presidential campaign … Regnery intends to place the book on a crash schedule,…
Rage-porn bunny and media darling, Ann Coulter, has a new book coming in June entitled Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America. According to this report in the LA Times book blog, “Coulter seems to be courting controversy with the book.” Indeed, it seems…
Yesterday, we posted our author Jean-Christophe Valtat‘s eloquent defense of the politics and literary merits of the steampunk genre (after this attack on the form by Charlie Stross). Today we were surprised to find in the MobyLives comment box a response from an unexpected source:…
Josh Jasper, at Publisher Weekly‘s Genreville blog, drew our attention to a politically-edged fight brewing in the science-fiction and fantasy world. Jasper linked to this essay by Charlie Stross criticizing the “Steampunk” genre for its over-exposure, flimsy science, and bad politics. Stross is admittedly following…
