literature
Virginia Congress-Whip Eric Cantor and his fellow Republican “Young Guns” Kevin McCarthy and Paul Ryan have collaborated on Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders, a new novel that captures the vigor and vitality of America’s most sensible political movement. But will anyone actually buy this holy text when it comes out next month, [...]
Esteemed man of letters Fred “#ftrs” Thompson drove a Folksy Truck of the People long before Scott Brown ever drove his pants-free pickup all over Taxachusetts, winning votes and ladies’ hearts. So just how come nobody has asked him for his views on Brown’s fancy rip-off truck, you’ve been wondering for so many months now? [...]
AN UPDATE. And yet, tragically, an actual real book called End the Fed by the Honorable Dr. Congressman Ron Paul weeps in the #8 position. [Amazon]
Your Wonkette recently had the pleasure of interviewing Center for American Progress speechwriter and “nouveau literature author” Grant Ginder, who’s just had his first novel, This Is How It Starts, published by Simon and Schuster. It’s in book stores everywhere! But what is it about? The novel follows young Taylor Mark, who moves to Washington [...]
Books! Funsy, right? Sure. Here are some fun book-related events in DC this week (big week for Politics & Prose). Here are also some of the week’s Most Vital book reviews, which you can read in DC, or anywhere.
An iconic postwar British playwright who hated America so much, Harold Pinter, died yesterday. He really despised George Bush’s war in Iraq, as well as the other American wars and killings: “The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.” Indeed, freedom [...]
