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The Misfit of Gravity (Part One)

THE MISFIT OF GRAVITY Part 1 You may think this is about my journey of reading Thomas Pynchon’s novel GRAVITY’S RAINBOW. In many ways, you would be right. But this is also an apology. My apology. Because I am a liar. That’s why Mona Wilson broke up with me. I...

GM! on GW: Thurber Winning Author Larry Doyle Talks Go Mutants! The Simpsons (and Lets Me Ask Some Really Dumb Questions)

High school is tough on boys. Their bodies rebel, their hormones go crazy, girls are in a constant battle over skirt length and how exactly they can drive a young man insane. It is enough to make a guy feel like an alien. In Larry Doyle's brilliant and sick-funny coming...

VICE BOOKS Releases FULL BLEED: NEW YORK CITY SKATEBOARD PHOTOGRAPHY

Vice Books is proud to announce the August 2010 release of FULL BLEED: New York City Skateboard Photography. Created by Alex Corporan, Andre Razo, and Ivory Serra, Full Bleed is a visual journey through 30 years of skateboarding in New York.

Skateboarding and concrete are inextricably intertwined and nowhere do a city's concrete canyons have more life and rich history than in New York. With contributions from over 60 photographers, Full Bleed is the first-ever comprehensive overview of New York's skate history, bringing together legendary skaters and iconic photographers.

An homage to the great ones that have built NYC skateboarding into what it is today, Full Bleed: New York City Skateboard Photography includes -

Photographs by: Spike Jonze, Giovanni Reda, Tobin Yelland, Thomas Campbell, Larry Clark, Ed Templeton, Atiba Jefferson, Angela Boatwright, Sammy Glucksman, Allen Ying, and more.

Skateboarders featured: Steve Olson, Eric Koston, Keith Hufnagel, Harold Hunter, Jerry Hsu, Mike Vallely, Mark Gonzales, Rick Howard, Jason Dill, and more.

Best-Selling Crime Novelist Jeffery Deaver To Write New James Bond Novel

According to Yahoo News, "The next chapter in the life of the quintessentially English character of James Bond will be penned by U.S. author Jeffery Deaver, who believes he has the "chameleon"-like qualities to get inside 007's head. Crime writer Deaver, best known for his Kathryn Dance and Lincoln Rhyme...

Digital Book Revolution Putting Store Model "Under Pressure"

You know that something's up when the CEO of Barnes & Noble, Leonard Riggio, is saying this about the power of digital books: "The store model is under pressure, whichever way you look at it." Today's Wall Street Journal did a profile of the number one bookseller with the digital...

Is The iPad Driving E-Book Piracy?

Is the iPad driving E-Book piracy? That's a question asked by Wired and "the answer was a resounding 'kinda.' While almost none of Amazon’s top ten appeared on public torrent trackers, six out of 10 books in the business category were available. When TorrentFreak checked the before and after numbers,...

New Book Dares To Ask Who's Greater: Michelangelo Or Leonardo?

And no, this is not referring to the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES. Yahoo News is reporting, "The new book focuses on a 16th century competition that set out to discover who was the better artist -- Michelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci, and says the outcome profoundly influenced the Renaissance titans'...

The Next Big Thing: VIRAL BOOK TRAILERS! (VIDEO)

With tongue firmly planted in cheek, publishers have recently leaked viral book trailers to PRIDE & PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES (which has sold more than a million copies) and the new ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER both written by Seth Grahame-Smith, the master of literary mash-up. "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES" trailer:...

Nicholas Sparks Douches It Up For USA Today

Nicholas Sparks is a genius. Just ask him. Sparks says: "I'm going to interrupt you there. There's a difference between drama and melodrama; evoking genuine emotion, or manipulating emotion. It's a very fine eye-of-the-needle to thread. And it's very rare that it works. That's why I tend to dominate this...

William Shakespeare, Victim of Longest Credit Arbitration In History

A play which was uncovered nearly 300 years ago is finally credited to William Shakespeare. According to the BBC News, "The work, titled "Double Falsehood", was written by the playwright and another dramatist, John Fletcher. Theatre impresario Lewis Theobald presented the play in the 18th century as an adaptation of...

THE BASEBALL CODES Reveals the Unwritten Rules of the Sport

"The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime" by Jason Turbow with Michael Duca is the tome that promises to unveil the countless unwritten rules of baseball. According to Yahoo News, the book describes, "Major League Baseball as a complex, intricate game with...

Why Wizards Can’t Discover Quantum Mechanics

Have you ever wondered why most fantasy books and movies are set in feudal agrarian societies? It's because a wizard will seriously screw up a scientist's day.

Book Optioned by James Cameron Will Halt Further Publication

AVATAR director James Cameron has been in the Charles Pellegrino business before, having penned an introduction to Pellegrino's book GHOST OF THE TITANIC back in 2000, and for the dubious book THE JESUS FAMILY TOMB. Pellegrino in return served as "an adviser" on AVATAR. Cameron recently struck a film deal...

Salman Rushdie To Write Book On His Decade In Hiding

The publication of THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie in 1988 sparked an immediate uproar in the Islamic world and caused the Ayatollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa for the author's life. The book's irreverent treatment of the prophet Muhammad was so controversial that it lead to violence around the...

An Insider's Account of Tiger Woods Coming In June

Yahoo News has reported that Atria Books announced Thursday that Robert Lusetich's "Unplayable: An Inside Account of Tiger's Most Tumultuous Season" will tell "how golf's greatest and most famous player built a public persona at odds with his private life." Apparently there is another Tiger Woods book coming out around...