Topic: Books

Anonymous Celebrity: Lilit Marcus of Save The Assistants

20 hours ago by Drew Grant | Comment

We didn’t have to travel far this week to find our Anonymous Celebrity…just over to the other corner of the office, where Lilit Marcus, editor-in-chief of TheGloss and -as of Tuesday – published author, resides. Her book about the trials and tribulations of being a corporate slave Save the Assistants, came out of the website she co-founded with the same name. Originally from North Carolina, Lilit loves bourbon, cowgirl boots, and yelling at cab drivers. She also knows a bunch of random religious factoids: Not 10 minutes ago, she enlightened us to where the term “missionary position come from!” … More »
Aw, Mark Wahlberg Admits It Was Dumb To Dedicate His Book To His Penis

29 days ago by Hillary Reinsberg | Comment

Actually, by now we had pretty much forgotten about the fact that Mark Wahlberg dedicated his 1992 memoir, Marky Mark, to his man parts. But ever the instigator, Mark had to come and remind us, didn’t he? “I thought it would be funny,” he said this week. Unfortunately, he would … More »
I Will Not Read The New 'Sex And The University' Book

31 days ago by Hillary Reinsberg | 2 Comments

Instead of leafing through Economics textbooks this semester, there’s going to be something juicier in the campus bookstore come September. It comes in the form of a book called Sex and the University and it is a book investigating sex columns in college newspapers. Haha, we get it — like … More »
Justin Bieber Is Writing A Memoir

32 days ago by Hillary Reinsberg | 2 Comments

Normally, people write memoirs once they’ve been around for a while. At 16, having been famous for approximately three and a half minutes, Justin Bieber has announced a memoir to be published in October by HarperCollins. According to a press release, the hardcover book will be “an illustrated memoir,” complete … More »
Sex At Dawn, Sex In the Stone Age – Finally, a book that challenges the myth that men biologically need to have sex with as many people as possible. Apparently our male ancestors used to find one cavewoman, all have sex with her, and then let the best sperm win. Um, we’d almost rather stick with the cheaters theory. (via Newsweek)
Nobody needs that kind of help, do they? — How-to books can be helpful, but are these ridiculous titles really necessary? Guess everyone could always use some tips on how to date a white woman or have sex in the woods. Right? (via Huffington Post)
Crushable Books: 5 Summer Reads That Should Be (Or Are Becoming) Movies

73 days ago by Amanda Ernst | Comment

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo became a best selling sensation as soon as it crashed on the U.S. market (after being translated from its native Swedish) in September 2008. The action-packed book seems ready made for a movie adaptation, with it’s vivid and unique … More »
'Gossip Girl' Author Cecily von Ziegesar Fictionalizes Her Own College Experience In 'Cum Laude'

81 days ago by Amanda Ernst | Comment

“I wanted to show that I had a little bit more range, and I was not just writing about people who shop,” author Cecily von Ziegesar told Crushable about her latest book, Cum Laude, which debuted earlier this month. The Gossip Girl scribe has branched out from the best selling … More »
Crushable Books: LC's 'Sweet Little Lies'

185 days ago by Crushable Staff | Comment

2010 has so far been a busy year for the two biggest stars of MTV’s most unreal reality show, The Hills. Lauren Conrad debuted her bestselling new novel and Heidi Montag unveiled her new … face.
If you somehow missed her on the cover of People, Heidi had 10 plastic surgery … More »
Rewriting Sweet Valley High For 2010

191 days ago by Crushable Staff | Comment

We grew up with SVH and the BSC (that’s Baby-Sitters Club, ya’ll) –but have they outgrown us? Kristin Clifford investigates.
Some YA plots are timeless classics; others have been rendered obsolete by technology. How many problems in Sweet Valley High or the Baby-sitters Club books could have been solved with a … More »
Excerpt From "Coffee At Luke's" Available

316 days ago by Maria Diaz | 2 Comments

You may know about the book Coffee At Luke’s, a collection of essays about the Gilmore Girls world. If you haven’t read it yet, Smart Pop Books has just posted one of the essays available on their website for free. It’s called “Whimsy Goes With Everything” and is written … More »
Keiko Agena at Comic-Con

401 days ago by Arieanna | 1 Comment

Keiko Agena (Lane Kim on Gilmore Girls) was at Comic Con in San Diego on July 24th to promote the graphic novel anthology she contributed to, Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology. For two hours, Keiko was on hand to sign copies of the anthology at the event, … More »
"Post Grad" The Novel

447 days ago by Arieanna | 3 Comments

Alexis Bledel’s (Rory Gilmore) upcoming movie, Post Grad, has released a novel! Post Grad, the film, will be out in August, but you can read up on the story now in the Post Grad Novel or Audiobook.
The story, and film, tell the story of Ryden Malby (Alexis Bledel), a … More »
Keiko Agena & Ming Doyle Interview

518 days ago by Arieanna | 2 Comments

Last month I mentioned that Keiko Agena (Lane Kim on Gilmore Girls) wrote a comic for an upcoming graphic novel anthology, Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology. I have had a chance to interview Keiko about her story, Learn to Share, as well as interview the graphic artist, Ming … More »
Milo Ventimiglia's Berserker Comic

521 days ago by Arieanna | 2 Comments

Milo Ventimiglia (Jess Mariano on Gilmore Girls) may play a superhero on television, but he’s also changing things up a bit with his new comic book, Berserker, created with Top Cow Productions and Milo’s Divide Pictures partner Russ Cundiff.

The series has been drawn by Jeremy Haun, cover artist Dale … More »