Friday, May 27, 2011

Books: Unfortunate gullibility; literary scams; Green Book and E.E. Cummings

If laughing at gullible people is your thing, as is mine, I present (via Metafilter), a blog devoted to those on Facebook who flip out over what they believe are real stories in The Onion.


Writer Beware warns us of the scam that is PublishAmerica, a so-called literary agency that purports to rep your work -- if you fork over a bunch of cash.  Don't do it.


Random book news:  The New York Times does a seemingly-thorough run-down on what exactly is in Qaddafi's Green Book, and oh boy how the rebels would like to tear every copy of that sucker up because they've been force-fed this crap from day zero.  And hey, totally different, but still interesting:  A previously-unknown E.E. Cummings poem was discovered.


Blog bonus:  A video of a dreaming kitten and its mother.  Watch it, and you will lose all anger and resentments of the parched earth of your cynical soul (Metafilter).

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