The actress Donna D’Errico has been searching for Noah’s Ark from the Bible. Apparently she has no friends because none of them stopped her by patiently explaining that the story is a myth and there really wasn’t a worldwide flood. To her credit, she’s actually been looking for it personally and not just coordinating the search of a team of outdoorsy types who snicker at her behind her back because she recently fell off a mountain during her search.
Douglas Rushkoff is best known for his work on media theory and influence on the cyberpunk subculture. So that he can write an insightful and gripping novel in what seems like such an effortless way should be depressing to writers who devote themselves solely to fiction.
Malcontents is a bug-crushing anthology of some of the greatest satire throughout history, put together by Joe Queenan. Colleges should build English literature courses around it. Then again, many of the authors would probably be up in arms for not calling it Irish literature.
If you’re in our target demographic, you’re probably not a fan of the celebrity culture. It’s all well and good to look up to people for their accomplishments, but fame for its own sake is just annoying. And yeah, that was pretty cliched to even point that out.
But there’s something the people who are into that sort of thing get out of their weird fascination. It’s some kind of stress release valve. And we all find our own ways of getting our allotment of mindless entertainment, hopefully without being too dumb and proud about it. This is where Glamorama comes in.
Letters of Insurgents is a series of fictional letters between two people who had taken part in a revolution in some unnamed country, probably in Eastern Europe. Yarostan has just been released from prison and gets in touch with Sophia, who had since immigrated to America.
So I finally got around to reading Jon Ronson’s second book, Them: Adeventures With Extremists. He’s also the author of The Men Who Stare At Goats, which was made into a mediocre movie a couple years ago.
Christopher Lombardo (right) is a co-author with Noel Boivins of The Man Who Scared a Shark to Death and Other True Tales of Drunken Debauchery and their new book is called Tastes Like Human. Their website is The Shark Guys. Chris has been published in the Globe & Mail, the Toronto Star, the National Post and Cracked. We talk about writing, the future of publishing, and their new book.
“Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.”
–Psalms 137:9
The high school board of education for the city of Republic, Missouri last week voted unanimously (4-0) to ban Kurt Vonnegut’s classic antiwar novel Slaughterhouse-Five from the school’s library. The board was responding to public complaints by one Wesley Scroggins, who was outraged that the city would use his tax dollars to store books which teach “principles contrary to the Bible” for children to read.
There’s a wonderful children’s book out for all the parents out there who want to teach their children about international politics and the case for a Belgian genocide. Here is a quick outline of the case for killing all the Belgians:
One of the literary controversies that’s always left me the most befuddled is the reaction to Mark Twain’s portrayal of racism in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Critics of Twain’s portrayal of racist characters as… well, racist, have for a long time been trying to either censor or water down some of the language used. And now it looks like they have to some extent succeeded. From Reuters:
Twain scholar Alan Gribben said he decided to reissue the 19th century classic “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” replacing the slur with the word “slaves” in all 219 places it occurs in the text because the original offended many readers.
Atheist Hobos 