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Happy Dan Brown Day
3:01AM Pareene | Hooray! Today you can finally buy Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, a new interactive novel about a heroic professor with a mullet who fights Catholics and Masons. It will save publishing, and ruin Washington DC. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Lord Of The Flies Scribe Once Attempted To Rape A Teenager
8:10PM the cajun boy | An upcoming biography on Nobel laureate William Golding says that the author tried to rape a 15-year-old fellow piano student named Dora when he was 18 and on break from his first year as a student at Oxford. More »
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Sandford Dody, Ghostwriter
5:56AM Pareene | Sandford Dody, author of multiple best-sellers, died July 4 at 90 years old. If his name is unfamiliar, it may be because it did not appear on the covers of his books. More »
Big Screen
Atlas Shrugged Miniseries Will Bore The Motor Of The World
4:24AM Pareene | Finally there will be one film to definitively separate stunted adolescent douchebags from regular people (besides Boondock Saints): Atlas Shrugged! Ayn Rand’s million-page epic tale of monologuing in a ravine is going to be a movie. More »
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Dying Mag Pays Fortune For Dead Author’s Unfinished Book
1:49AM Pareene | Famed literary journal and titty mag Playboy acquired the exclusive serial rights to the unfinished final novella of author Vladimir Nabokov. They won the rights with flowers! And also lots of money. And also The New Yorker turned it down. More »
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Dave Eggers Reassures Us That Print Lives, Via Email
1:23AM Hamilton Nolan | Last month, San Franciscan literary figure Dave Eggers promised to personally email anyone who feared that print is dead, and cheer them up. He’s done it! Here’s your full Dave Eggers ‘Print Lives’ Reassurance Email: More »
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