James A. Michener (1907 - 1997) in his novel 'Caravans', Copyright, 1963, Random House, wrote: 'During my first days in Afghanistan …whenever I saw a pair of …tribesmen …, his partner (had) feminine traits. He walked in mincing steps, kept a handkerchief in one hand, and he carried a winter flower between his teeth …wore a little rouge or eye makeup and always … holding the hand of his …rugged pa...
Humpty Dumpty Monthly Magazine has just released the results of their yearly survey to find The 10 Least Popular Children's Books of 2010. Magazine editor Clementina Cocoplum said that her office received over 37,000 entry forms, which is more than triple what they received last year. Miss Cocoplum stated that the only stipulation was that the books had to be in English. Entries were receive...
Private Eye got onto him first. That's how I got to know about it as one of their freelances. In fact, he contacted them from Heathrow airport. He was angry they told me and to take care. But he had a story. He was none other than J.K.Rowling's secret boyfriend from many years back. I imagined he would be weedy, bookish, a nerd. He was the guy she never talked about and only mention...
The British Libraries Association have undergone a major re-branding to compete head to head with Amazon's Kindle. "It's a major initiative," said Rowena Reddalot, High Priestess of Librarians. "Kindle's marketing policy is to highlight their posi...
A couple of British tourists have lambasted publishing houses for luring unwary readers into buying books they can't understand. Ken and Liz Bonkers, of Harlesden, north London, recently returned from a visit to Florence but claim their excursion...
It has been a bumper year for history publishing and there's a lot to choose from if you want to give history for Christmas. We asked Ken Lucid to remember some of the volumes he's read for us during 2010... Strewth! They don't ask bloody much do they? It's not enough I have to read all these bloody books, but come Christmas I have to remember them! And are you sure you want to go buyi...
10. Decision Points--A how-to-book for those people interested in fabricating a good lie.] 9. American by Heart--A book that shows that knowing American history isn't important in politics, as long as you provide a nice image to masturbate to. 8. The Christmas Sweater--Because who doesn't want to read something by a zealot, who tries to use every cliche in the book to sell another book.
The bad sex literary prize has been awarded to the author Rowan Somerville (no relation either to celebrated gay singer Jimmy or Rowan as in Mr. Bean). This prestigious prize is awarded annually to authors who just cannot write about sex in a dece...
Baseball great Yogi Berra, author of "The Yogi Book", will join former president George W. Bush, author of "Decision Points", on a national tour to publicize their books. Mr Bush said, "Yogi was assisted by a ghostwriter, so I'm pleased to be join...
Tucker Max, author of "Assholes Finish First," likes to write about his sexual conquest like he is the only man getting laid in America, or that he is a real genius because he discovered that people can't get enough of morons who like to drink and score lots of meaningless sex. The book does highlight the faults of narcissism in a way that might make Freud blush, because Tucker Max likes to sha...
A publisher's Crime Club has finally got around to changing the name of Agatha Christie's 1939 novel "Ten Little Niggers", some seventy years after the rest of the world realized that it was the most f--ked up name for a book ever invented. "We ha...
WASILLA - Sarah Louise Palin, the former governor of Alaska who resigned the job that the voters of the Iceberg State voted her to do, has finally revealed the real reasons why she resigned her governorship. She stated that she resigned so that sh...
Portland, Maine -- Stephen King is coming out of retirement, again. "Full Dark, No Stars" is the latest release for King, who announced his retirement from writing in 2002. "I thought I said it all, but when you are a formualistic writer, wel...
Attempting to distract media attention away from all the fuss created by Meghan McCain calling Bristol Palin "irresponsible" for not voting in the most recent election, Mama Grizzly Bear wannabe Sarah Palin held a press conference today revealing tha...
International porcelain bathroom fixture manufacturer, Belgian Standard, announced today the new release of a children's picture book targeted at young boys and titled, "Everybody Pees". The clever marketing department at Belgian Standard found a...
In what's being dubbed the "law of repulsion", millions of people who purchased best-selling author Rhonda Byrne's The Secret hoping to get rich by simply thinking about it, are now demanding refunds in the hope that they can use the money help pay b...
Washington D.C.--I was excited to hear Jonathan Franzen was coming out with a new novel. As a Supreme Court justice you don't have a lot of time to read as many good books as you like. I blame that mostly on the fact I do a lot of speaking engagements because of my fame, but I'm not much on bragging. I will say that I was disappointed in the new novel because of Franzen's effort to take on...
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