Believe it or not, we're begging you to spoil the book for us. Heck, we'll even give you a prize for it! You see, back when Seinfeld ended, we were certain that Jerry would ask Elaine to marry him. Instead he ended up in jail. Then when The Sopranos finished, we thought Tony would end up in jail. Instead he ordered food and listened to Journey. And then when Jay Z officially retired, we thought, this one's easy—the guy's retiring. Then he released another album. So now that the final... READ ON

Gawker had an amazing, and somewhat disappointing bit about so-called "memoirist" and the guy who let down Oprah, James Frey. The author, who was publicly embarrassed earlier this year when it was revealed that he made up large swaths of his memoir A Million Little Pieces, has just released the first paragraph of his book. On September 4, 1781, a group of 46 men, women and children who called themselves the Pobladores established a settlement in what is now the City of Los Angeles. They named it El Pueblo... READ ON

If you haven't heard of it, that's about to change. Arguably the hottest news event in the literary world, the Sobol Award, like other literary awards, will be given out to a bunch of different authors this year "“ the difference here being that unlike the Pulitzer Prize or the National Book Award, the winners of the Sobol Award will be unpublished novelists who will have coughed up $85 big ones (gasp) to enter a contest (double-gasp). Part of the reason why this award/contest is being discussed... READ ON

I don't know if you've seen, but there's been a lot of hullabaloo over this ad (left) from Canadian company Simply Audio Books, which had plastered Bush's image on billboards across Toronto, and is now taking them down in the name of diplomacy. And while we're not in the business of politics and political commentary (we'll leave that to the smarter blogs), it is interesting that Simply Audio Books hasn't been doing their reading. According to The New Yorker,... READ ON