I recently came into possession of my grandfather's collection of existential books. The first book, entitled Something from Nothing was three hundred blank pages. I think that is my favourite. It's the kind of book you can dip into and get a good vibe off every page. I had to stop reading We do not Exist on account of my slowly fading from existence as I got to page fifty. I fear had I carr...
The race is on to sign the "big five" rock stars who have yet to pen memoirs. Following the success of autobiographies by Rolling Stone Keith Richards and top-hatted, corkscrew-haired axeman Slash, publishers are keen to snap up more big names.
The schoolmaster was leaving the village. Everybody seemed sorry. The miller at Cuttercombe lent him the little tilted cart to carry his worldy goods to the city where he was going, some twenty miles off. "But still I am unable to move my worldly goods", said the schoolmaster. "Why be that, sir?" asked the miller, his weathered, flour-dusted visage peering up at the master. "I have no horse"...
In the wake of JK Rowling's Pottermore announcement, Skoob Entertainment News supremo, Buffty Ginslinger has categorically stated that an 8th Harry Potter book is inevitable. Speaking from a wine bar close to London's famous Leicester Square, wher...
'The Hunchback Of Notre Dame' is to be re-named, causing a public outburst of anger amongst fans of the world renowned literary masterpiece. Council officials in the UK began the campaign for change in 2009, and the protest soon gathered pace, as...
An excerpt From "The Very First Summer of Rebecca Emmons," a novel by Anthony Rosania. But I'm not experienced. They had sex with her because they could. No other reason. Miss Sommers had sex with the girl because it was daring and different and wrong, and because she could. The girl knew that. She did not kid herself about it. With all of them, the ones she remembered, she had felt, then,...
Once upon a time, book censorship standards were strict, and authors had to watch their plots and their language. Not anymore. That's why the latest trend is the forthcoming publication of ebook "restored" versions of print works from the 50s and...
Leeds: Shock, horror and disbelief as local Leeds Man Puts Good Book Down in Library. There is a saying in literary circles, that if you put a good book down before finishing it, 'Then yer a bastard"!! Unfortunately for one man, the act of putting…
When Amazon announced this week that it would be selling a new Kindle model "Kindle with Special Offers," one with advertisements, for $114 ($25 cheaper than the standard Kindle), the news was greeted enthusiastically by some. But not by all. Th...
Justin Thyme, founder and lead singer of the rap band "Beetroot To Me" is in deep water with J.K.Rowling after the release of his latest song "Rake N' Vac" from his album "Plagiarhythm". Rowling's followers of course do not believe in plagiarism but...
Gorgeous and talented model Katie Price has just announced an amazing book deal that will catapult her to world wide fame. The popular star will write seven autobiographies, one each year, for the next seven years that will chart her everyday life...
Hugh Hefner recovering from a hernia operation in a private clinic in LA has announced the forthcoming publication of "Stop It!" a book, written by the publishing guru himself and based largely on his own life. So, writes Lance Godbolt of The Vagina Observer. "It is more than a biography," explained Hefner. "It is largely, and very largely at that, a scientific investigation into human sexual...
Former Secretary of State, Donald Rumsfeld has confessed to shatting on the floors of certain places all over the United States in his new book, "Known and Unknown: A Memoir". "I've been doing it for the past 20-25 years", stated the "tough" man o...
Left Coast Mirror Magazine has just released its annual list of 'The 10 Worst Selling Adult Books of 2010.' LCMM owner, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief Ambrose Appomattox, 46, started his career as a beat reporter for the La Brea, California-based tabloi...
The GOP Congressional Caucus announced today that due to the overwhelming approval by the public of the reading of the Constitution on the first day of Congress, they will read a book every day for the rest of 2011. Speaker of the House, John Boe...
A manuscript, recently discovered in a house in Gosport, and believed to be the only extant copy of the hitherto unheard of Charles Dickens novel - The Winds Of The Cauliflowered Egg - was today declared to be 'an amateurishly perpetrated con.' In...
(San Diego, CA - January 3, 2011)… As the special effects laden blockbuster motion picture that everyone's been talking about continues to dominate the market, the film is beginning to receive increasingly pronounced critique. While experienced...
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