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Book-Thrower Just Wanted Obama to ... Read His Book

Books are not 'dangerous objects,' says Secret Service

(Newser) - The man who threw a book at President Obama at a rally Sunday was an over-exuberant author, not a security threat, the Secret Service says. The "exuberant' author, who has not been identified, simply wanted the president to read his book, CNN notes. He was questioned and released without...

Unpublished Stieg Larsson Book Exists

But it's the fifth volume, not fourth, in Dragon Tattoo series

(Newser) - Buried at the bottom of a CBS News piece is a delightful answer to a long-running mystery: Did Stieg Larsson, the author of the wildly successful Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series finish the fourth book in the series before his death, as he had told his friends? Sort of....

Meghan McCain: Sarah Palin Brought 'Drama, Stress'

But insists she wasn't reason campaign lost

(Newser) - Meghan McCain was not a fan of Sarah Palin during her father’s presidential campaign. In her new book, Dirty Sexy Politics, McCain writes that Palin brought “drama, stress, complications, panic and loads of uncertainty,” to her father’s operation. “I’m speaking out now because I...

Good News for Hypochondriacs: 'Stone Man' Disease Is Real!

New book highlights frightening ailments

(Newser) - Did you know that there’s a rare syndrome-- fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva—that can cause your bones to grow so uncontrollably that you become a “stone man”? That’s just one of the strange ailments described in the Hypochondriac’s Handbook, a new book chock-full of rare diseases....

Sarkozys' Sex Life So Hot It Stops Clocks

New book spills about why the French first couple is late so often

(Newser) - Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy once kept a head of state waiting for a meeting, but they had a good excuse—they were having sex. The revelation about the French president and his ex-supermodel wife gets juicier, ABC News reports: It involves the Obamas. No, not like that! Bruni-Sarkozy "...

The Age Of Facebook: Excerpts From The New Book By David Kirkpatrick
 Facebook: 
 The Frat House Years 
Book Excerpt
May 6, 2010 12:27 PM CDT

Facebook: The Frat House Years

Young company run like a rowdy dorm

(Newser) - The house was overrun with partying college students. Broken beer bottles were frequently swept carelessly into the pool—which drunken guests would leap into by jumping off a zip-line slung from the chimney. That's what Facebook's first “headquarters” was like, according to excerpts, published by Fortune , from David Kirkpatrick's...

What Your Dog's Thinking
 What Your Dog's Thinking 
Apr 29, 2010 11:22 AM CDT

What Your Dog's Thinking

Guess what: When he slobbers all over your face, that's not love

(Newser) - When your dog licks your face, he's not trying to “kiss” you or demonstrate his affection; he's hoping to lap up any regurgitated food you might have to offer him. That's just one of the many unsettling revelations doled out by Alexandra Horowitz in an interview with ABC News...

Details Surface About Bush's Book

'The Decider' focuses on moments where he stepped up

(Newser) - George W. Bush hasn't written a memoir, exactly. Instead he's been working "almost every day," his publisher, Crown, says, on Decision Points, which offers “gripping, never-before-heard details” on the biggest decisions of Bush's life, from the day he quit drinking to 9/11. An industry source tells the...

Susan Boyle Lands Deal for Autobiography

'The Woman I Was Born to Be' will be out in the fall

(Newser) - Susan Boyle is out to conquer a new medium. The Scottish singer is working on an autobiography to be published in the fall, reports the BBC . The Woman I Was Born to Be will chronicle her unlikely rise to fame after she appeared on Britain's Got Talent, with the main...

Top F***ing Books About the Financial Crisis

Maybe all the profanity will keep you reading

(Newser) - There are so many books about the financial crisis, how does one choose which to read first? One method: Go for the one with the most instances of the word “f---.” Conveniently enough, Paul Kedrosky has assembled a handy list. Not big on the idea of the f-word...

10 Awesome Tidbits From Jennifer Love Hewitt's Book

'The Day I Shot Cupid' is a mess, but an entertaining one

(Newser) - Jennifer Love Hewitt wrote a book of advice about love, which is just as ridiculous as it sounds. “Here are 10 completely awesome things that happen in this book,” writes Linda Holmes for NPR :
  1. Hewitt admits to visiting and trying on her “dream ring” once a month
...

Larry Flynt Writing Book on Presidential Sex

 Larry Flynt 
 Writing Book on 
 Presidential Sex 

our founding fornicators
Mar 18, 2010 8:12 AM CDT

Larry Flynt Writing Book on Presidential Sex

Hustler publisher will delve into affairs of state

(Newser) - Porn king Larry Flynt is turning to a slightly more academic topic: presidents. Well, the sex lives of presidents, to be exact. The Hustler publisher is writing One Nation Under Sex, an “academically sourced” history of White House seductions. Gawker got a look at the proposal, and it includes...

'Robin Hood Was a Loan Shark'
 'Robin Hood Was a Loan Shark' 
Mar 8, 2010 3:56 AM CST

'Robin Hood Was a Loan Shark'

He quivered over interest rates

(Newser) - He robbed from the rich, but Robin Hood didn't just give it away to the poor—he loaned them money at stiff interest rates like some kind of medieval loan shark, claims a new book. One of the earliest historical references to the outlaw of Sherwood Forest, a ballad from...

Dana Milbank Takes Aim at Glenn Beck in New Book

Tears of a Clown coming later this year

(Newser) - Dana Milbank had to do something truly appalling for the sake of his next book: “I’ve signed up for the elite membership on GlennBeck.com,” he says. The Washington Post humorist has begun writing a book on Fox’s volatile host, titled Tears of a Clown, he...

On the Page, Salinger Was Anything but Withdrawn
On the Page, Salinger Was Anything but Withdrawn
APPRECIATION
Feb 1, 2010 5:34 AM CST

On the Page, Salinger Was Anything but Withdrawn

Remembering the writer, not the myth

(Newser) - The myth of JD Salinger the withdrawn man doesn't match Salinger the writer, Adam Gopnik writes. On the page, Salinger was charming, expansive, and relentlessly engaged with the world. "No American writer will ever have a more alert ear, a more attentive eye, or a more ardent heart,"...

CIA Agent Who Said Torture Works: I Lied

In book, John Kiriakou admits that he had passed on hearsay

(Newser) - John Kiriakou, the ex-CIA operative who rocked the torture debate back in 2007 by claiming that waterboarding swiftly drew information from Abu Zubaydah, now admits that he made it all up. Back then Kiriakou said that one waterboarding broke Zubaydah. “From that day on, he answered every question,”...

Book: John Paul II Whipped, Starved Himself

Pope self-flagellated in pursuit of 'Christian perfection,' says author

(Newser) - Pope John Paul II whipped himself with a belt, even on vacation, slept on the floor, and frequently denied himself food as acts of penitence, says a new book by the Polish prelate spearheading his sainthood case. The book Why He's a Saint also includes previously unpublished speeches and documents,...

Writers Pick Best Books of '09
 Writers Pick Best Books of '09 
Year in Review
Dec 11, 2009 3:40 PM CST

Writers Pick Best Books of '09

Nick Hornby, Judy Blume, and more weigh in

(Newser) - What was the best book of the year? Salon asked Nick Hornby, Junot Diaz, Curtis Sittenfeld, and other people with better literary credentials than ours what they enjoyed in 2009. Their responses are in the photo gallery.

The Best Fiction of 2009
 The Best Fiction of 2009 
Dec 9, 2009 12:09 PM CST

The Best Fiction of 2009

Sex, ghosts, long-lost twins, baby monkeys inhabit Salon's picks

(Newser) - The frankly subjective list of the year's best fiction from Salon avoids the obvious Wolff Hall, Hillary Mantel's latest and the Man Booker Prize winner. Laura Miller names five others that, too, offered “a sojourn, however brief, into another world”:
  • The Children’s Book by AS Byatt: “This
...

Going Rogue Sells 1M Copies

HarperCollins moves to print 300K more copies

(Newser) - Going Rogue has gone platinum. A HarperCollins spokeswoman said today that just two weeks after publication, Sarah Palin's memoir has sold 1 million copies. The print run for Going Rogue has been increased again, to 2.8 million copies. The original printing was 1.5 million, then moved up to...

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