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Courtney Love Caused Two Of Frances Bean’s Pets To Die, And Other Horrifying Stories
A new e-book published by addiction recovery site The Fix contains many never-before-seen stories about Courtney Love‘s life and struggles with addiction, many of them told directly to the author by Courtney herself. The author also obtained court documents from Frances Bean Cobain‘s restraining order proceedings, and they don’t paint a pretty picture of Courtney as a parent. More »
Josh Radnor From How I Met Your Mother Wrote An Ayahuasca Memoir
Jason Segel has The Muppets, Neil Patrick Harris has hosting things, and Josh Radnor has this. Let him have this, guys. More »
Art Crush: Book Landscapes With Tiny People
Even the hardcore book-lovers can’t get too bent out of shape about Kyle Kirkpatrick‘s art of cutting caves and valleys into old books. More »
10 Things James Franco Should Do Instead Of Writing Another Book
Artiste, director, student, stoner, and actor James Franco is once again trying to infect the world with his “brilliance.” Since Franco’s short story collection Palo Alto was pretty much panned for being an utter piece of shit, he’s decided to have another go at it, but this time he’s writing a novel.
The novel, Actors Anonymous, will be published by Amazon and is supposed to be a fictionalized account of Franco’s trials and tribulations as an actor. He’s done everything else, so he might as well tackle this end of the art world as well.
However, since he’s made it clear with this last attempt that writing isn’t exactly his forte, we’ve decided to a make a list of 10 suggestions for the darling for which he may be better suited. Besides self-involved fawning, of course. More »
Book Excerpt: The Survivors
Wattpad is the world’s largest community for discovering and sharing stories on the web and across mobile devices. Users have posted over 3 million stories on Wattpad and are adding another 250,000 each month. We’ll be publishing excerpts from upcoming stories here on Crushable for you to read. If you like what you’re reading, you can find the full story on Wattpad.
Today’s excerpt is from The Survivors by Amanda Havard. The book is the first installment of the tantalizing tales of the fourteen ill-fated Survivors.
On a muggy summer night in Tennessee, Sadie witnesses a shocking scene that will change her life forever. It is the first in a sequence of events that will drag her from the world she’s sought to belong to and send her back to her Puritanical family. More »
The Best Books For Teen Readers Who Have Moved Past Twilight And The Hunger Games
Let’s face it, to fact-paced teenagers, Harry Potter, Twilight and The Hunger Games are already classics. They’re just sitting on the shelf next to Narnia by now. These may be the most popular franchises for teens out there, but avid readers have probably made it through these series at least a dozen times already. They’re looking for new, exciting, soon-to-be explosive books to sink their teeth into.
I can still remember being that kid who received a series of books from Santa and spent the rest of my Christmas break curled into an armchair devouring new characters and stories. I wasn’t playing with new gadgets or putting together an amazing line-up of back-from-break outfits. I was reading. In fact, laying down with a brand new book is still one of my favorite parts of Christmas Day. Hint, hint sweetheart. More »
Book Excerpt: Life’s A Witch
Wattpad is the most popular e-reading community in the world, connecting a community of millions of users to over 200,000 new stories published every month. We’ll be publishing excerpts from upcoming stories here on Crushable for you to read. If you like what you’re reading, you can find the full story at Wattpad.
Today’s excerpt is from “Life’s A Witch” by Brittany Geragotelis. Coming out on December 8, the novel tells the story of Hadley Bishop, a modern day girl whose life has become irreversibly linked to her family’s history and the legendary Salem Witch Trials.
I don’t remember the drive home although I faintly recall someone—maybe it was Jinx or possibly even Jasmine—calling up the other cars which were a few minutes behind us and telling them that there was a change of plans and that we’d be driving back to my place instead. I wasn’t sure if I’d ever actually offered for everyone to come back to my house, but given the circumstances, I might’ve said just about anything to get away from the wreckage that used to be the construction warehouse.
There was so much wreckage. More »
Don’t Know Much About The Hunger Games? Check Out These Fan Companion Guides
What’s a blockbuster YA movie without a couple of companion guides to introduce new fans to the world of the film? Scholastic will release two books introducing the world of The Hunger Games to diehard fans as well as newbies: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion and The Tribute Guide. Click through for the covers! More »
Video: Snooki Doesn’t Know Who J.K. Rowling And Maya Angelou Are
She also basically admitted to Jimmy Kimmel last night that she didn’t write her book. It’s not like anyone thought she did, but still. More »
Parting Tweet: Ellen Barkin F–kin’ Joins Twitter, Is F–kin’ Awesome
Thank you to whomever showed Ellen Barkin how to use Twitter. We hadn’t thought about her much since Ocean’s Thirteen in 2007, but now we’ll be following her thanks to her endless, shockingly filthy, stream of consciousness! Seriously, she’s some weird combination of sailor, rapper, and drunken Irishman.
More after the jump, because come on. More »
Celebrity Reading List: 15 Celeb-Written Children’s Books
Last week we discovered that celebrities like to write novels. But you know what they like to write even more than novels? Children’s books! And what better way to introduce your wee ones to the hilarity of celebrity culture than with these 15 kid’s books penned by the likes of Ricky Gervais, Julianne Moore, Bob Dylan, and Perez Hilton? Here’s what I want to know: When is the Britney Spears children’s book about haircare appreciation happening? More »
Celebrity Reading List: 15 Celebs Who Have Written Novels
Things I found out recently include the fact that the Kardashian sisters are making their fiction debut in November with a novel entitled Dollhouse. Says Kim, “”The novel is based on our lives but we’ve added a lot of crazy fictional twists and turns. You’ll have to decide for yourself which story lines are true to life, and which ones we dreamed up.” But Kim, Khloé, and Kourtney are far from the only celebs who have tried their hand at novel-writing. I can’t speak as to how much these shining literary achievements owe to a little thing we call ghostwriting, but some of them aren’t so bad. Others… well, take a look for yourselves! More »
7 Ways To Use Tumblr to Its Crazy Awesome Fullest
Tumblr has been in the social media game since 2007, but it’s really come into its own recently (read: I’ve just discovered how awesome it is and have abandoned facebook because of it). I’ve noticed several patterns in the awesome of Tumblr, and have thus built a guide for Crushable users so they can try and comprehend how awesome it all is–and how you too can get into the Tumblr game. More »
10 Questions I Want Answered in Greg Sestero’s Book About ‘The Room’
Dubbed by many “the best bad movie ever,” The Room is a cult classic that draws fans to midnight screenings around the country. Its star, writer, and director Tommy Wiseau, is an enigmatic and perplexing figure who he rarely gives interviews. However, there’s hope for all of you Roomphiles who want to know more about the making of the movie – actor Greg Sestero, who played Mark, is writing a tell-all book entitled Locked Inside the Room. More »
Do You Pattersonize? Craigslist Ad Seeks Writer Who Can Rip Off James Patterson
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 »
Crushable Books: 7 Things I Learned About Hoarding from TV Star Matt Paxton
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 Roundup: The Best ‘Less Interesting Books’ Tweets
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 »
A New Documentary Looks At the Legacy of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
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: SVU’ Meets YA Lit
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 »
Alternatives to Your Summer Reading List
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 all you want to read is the cover of People online at the supermarket. To prepare yourself for your September essays, here are some less painful ways to get your summer reading list squared away…. More »