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New word alert: a New York Craigslist ad is looking for a writer who can “Pattersonize” a book. That would be a reference to James Patterson, the bestselling author of books like the Women’s Murder Club series. The ad is looking for someone who can take existing – and presumably unpublished – novels and turn them into Patterson-style bestsellers: More
On A&E’s hit show Hoarders, head cleaner Matt Paxton is affectionately referred to as “St. Matt” by fans of the show. Matt, who owns Virginia-based company Clutter Cleaners, was approached to join the show because of his great reputation working with hoarders. The guy clearly has a stomach made of steel, because he has dealt with everything from dead animal carcasses to rotting human waste without flipping out. His new book, The Secret Lives of Hoarders: True Stories of Handling Extreme Clutter, is a manual about how to deal with all kinds of hoarding situations. I thought I knew all there was to know about hoarding from being a fan of the show, but St. Matt has seen it all. More
Twitter hashtag games are swiftly replacing baseball as our national pastime. What better way to waste an afternoon than glued to the computer, trying to out-clever the rest of the Internet. Today’s hashtag game was #lessinteresting books, and there were some pretty funny ones, you guys. Here’s a roundup of the best tweets.*
*And also one of my one, which I put in here because I can, dammit. And because I needed an even number. More
The upcoming documentary Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird examines the legacy of To Kill a Mockingbird, one of America’s best loved (and most banned) books. The film features Mockingbird fans like Oprah, Tom Brokaw, and Anna Quindlen talking about why they love the book. More
Law and Order marathons have to be the number one thing standing between me and a productive life. It’s gone from a passive form of entertainment to an interactive party game- from guessing the season by Olivia’s hair style to estimating how old an episode is by how freaked out everyone seems about the internet-thingy all the kids are talking about.
This May Rachel Dewoskin‘s book Big Girl Small comes out, adding to the already booming collection of young adult novels with SVU-esque plots. More
You can learn a lot from the classics, but you might not be in the right mindset from Elizabethan English lounging on the beach. Really, classics are winter reads, but professors insist on assigning during the time of year when … More
Two new fan sites for The Hunger Games have cropped up, with the option of getting matched to a district and participating in the 74th Hunger Games (the same one that Katniss goes through, and that the upcoming movie is about). Lionsgate has confirmed that these sites aren’t associated with the film, and it’s unclear if they’re from the same creators, but they certainly fit well together.
The first, Hunger Games Tesserae, invites you to send your personal info and find out who you are in this dystopian world. It’s the modern equivalent of Harry Potter‘s Sorting Hat: You’re put into one of twelve districts, each responsible for a different sort of agriculture or craft. More
Tina Fey is not only the funniest woman on television, she’s the funniest woman in print. Check out this autograph she did for a copy of her new book Bossypants. More
HBO’s spectacular adaptation of Game of Thrones, the first book of George R. R. Martin’s fantasy epic A Song of Ice and Fire, has truly taken the television world on by storm, offering one of the most complete fantasy visions ever seen on a television screen. The show has already been renewed for a second season, even though it’s only aired one episode of the first so far. This got us thinking: Why do so many people try to adapt sweeping fantasy epics into films when television would be such a better medium for it? With television, you don’t have to try to condense the intricacies of fantasy down to two hours– you can have thirteen! AND you can have multiple seasons! Capitalizing on the success of Game of Thrones, here are our picks for other fantasy book series that would make fantastic television shows:
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Author and activist Greg Mortenson, whose acclaimed book Three Cups of Tea has been a perennial bestseller, recently admitted that the story was “more of a fairy tale.” In the book, Mortenson chronicled his experiences as a mountain climber, and tells of how he was injured during a climb in Pakistan. He was taken in by local villagers and, when he recovered, he vowed to build girls’ schools in the country as a thank-you. Sadly, Mortenson is not the only author to pass off fiction as fact. More
Like books? Like reading books aloud? Like Neil Gaiman? Then enter the contest to play one of the characters in the tenth-anniversary edition audio recording of Gaiman’s book American Gods. You’ll join a bevy of other actors in New York City to do a full-cast recording. Did we mention you get a free trip to NYC? More
Ah, Hollywood. Celebrity bodyguard Kris Herzog (pictured) – who has worked with celebrities like Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, and Oksana Grigorieva – has a tell-all book coming out. Until then, though, he’s teasing us with potential spoilers about the book. In an interview with Celeb Dirty Laundry, he said: More
Looks like it’s the season for Teen Mom book deals! Crushable exclusively announced that 16 and Pregnant alum Ashley Salazar had landed a book contract, and now she has a little competition – from Teen Mom cast member Farrah Abraham. More
Have you ever wanted to sit down and give your favorite fictional characters a piece of your mind? I know I have. And the geniuses behind Letters to Fictional People have done just that, offering short, pithy words of advice and wisdom to everyone from Voldemort to Bella Swan to Bambi’s mom. We thought of a few more, so we offer them here for your reading pleasure. Got any to add? Tell us about them in the comments! More
