Yesterday afternoon, the news broke that Lindsay Lohan clogged a toilet. Not only that, but she clogged a toilet so bad that all the other toilets on the movie set had to be shut down for days. DAYS!…   Read Story »

This is a fun promotional video for the upcoming @humblebrag book by young Harris Wittels, featuring all your favorite pals from the TV show Parks and Recreation. See? Just a nice, straight-forward,…   Read Story »

You might think that it's Penny Marshall playing "Penny Marshall" in this promo for her book My Mother Was Nuts, but it's actually FRED ARMISEN. Can you even believe it? I can't. I almost don't.   Read Story »

No duh. From the AP: Uggie, the Jack Russell terrier who appeared in the Oscar-winning "The Artist," has a memoir coming. Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced Friday that…   Read Story »

A recent article in the New York Times about cookbook ghostwriters included a photo caption naming Julia Turshen as Gwyneth Paltrow's ghostwriter on her cookbook, My Father's Daughter. Sure! I mean,…   Read Story »

Most of the readers of this site are pretty high-powered Internet users. (You're welcome. Flattery will get me EVERYWHERE.) You know what blogs are. You've heard of an RSS feed. Some of you have even…   Read Story »

In order to promote his new book, comedian Chris Gethard has been making a series of YouTube videos in which he calls out all the other authors to stake his claim as the New King of Authors. They are…   Read Story »

Sasha Grey recently read to a group of first graders, obviously. What did you think? That Sasha Grey DIDN'T read to a group of first graders? Be realistic. From TMZ: TMZ has obtained photos of…   Read Story »

Spike Jonze has directed a new animated short called Mourir Auprès de Toi, which translates as To Die by Your Side, and it is delightful. Books! Felt! Very good. Personally, I think the short…   Read Story »

Books -- soooooo gross, right? What do I look like, a nerd who doesn't even care about making the slightest effort to not look like a nerd? No thank you. Audio books are just as gross, maybe even…   Read Story »