WTF, Bharati Mukherjee
“Indian guys in the States,” Millie explained. “They’re the sickest perverts. They spend all day…
Any Schmuck Can be an Author with Apple’s New iBooks Author Tool, But Should You?
Apple today launched iBooks Author, an easy to use application for writers looking to publish…
Quote of the Day – Sallie Bingham
You can’t sing to the flower without including the bud and stem and the root,…
Kindle e-Book Lending Debuts at 11,000 U.S. Libraries
Thousands of America’s libraries got better today with Amazon rolling out the Kindle Library Lending…
Hey, Bibliophiles – Deals Can’t Get Any Better
We know, we know. All ye 64-letter, Twitter-constrained schmucks consider reading to be a cardinal…
Quote of the Day – T.B.Macaulay on Boswell
There is scarcely any man who would not rather accuse himself of great crimes and…
Borders Finished; 11,000 Employees Screwed
Finito! Our favorite brick and mortar book store chain, the troubled Borders Group is shutting…
Red Market Review – Former Chennai Resident Scott Carney Pisses on Organ Trading
Most humans are beasts with little humanity in them. Of that, we’ve always been convinced.…
Quote of the Day – Anthony Trollope
For, after all, let a woman be ever so good, – and you to me…
Who Says Americans Don’t Read? They Still Do & Increasingly on E-Readers
Newspaper circulation may be dropping precipitously in America and magazines may be folding at an…
Great Soul by Joseph Lelyveld – Chapter 3; Before he Became Mahatma, Gandhi was a Racist Swine
Would the revelation that Mohandas Gandhi, hailed as the Mahatma (Great Soul) and Father of…
Great Soul by Joseph Lelyveld – Chapter 2
In all fairness, Chapter 2 of Lelyveld’s book Great Soul should rightly be described as…
Great Soul by Joseph Lelyveld – Chapter 1
I believe in walking alone. I came alone in this world, I have walked alone…
OMG, Was Gandhi an AC/DC?
We all know how Gandhi used to sleep naked with young girls at his ashram…
Full Dark, No Stars Review – Pick it Up
When it came to the dark fuckery of the human heart, there seemed to be…