Books

Murdoch Knocks Through Wall Separating FoxNews, HarperCollins: Previously Protected Authors May Not Stay

There has always been an unseen wall between Rupert Murdoch's insanity at Fox News and the genteel world of publishing at Harper Collins books. That...

Wait: Didn’t Mariah Carey Say She Was Diagnosed Bipolar in 2018? It’s Disappeared in New Memoir

I'm getting nasty tweets from Mariah Carey's fans about my take on her book, "The Meaning...

Mariah Carey Book Biggest Omissions: “American Idol,” Nicki Minaj, JLO, All the Publicists and Managers Who Saved Her

"The Meaning of Mariah Carey," the book, is out now. You can read it if you want the fiction version of Mariah's life. There is...

What is the Meaning of Mariah Carey? In Her Self-Absorbed Memoir Everyone Else is To Blame, Starting with Her Mom and Tommy Mottola

What is "The Meaning of Mariah Carey"? It's a ridiculous "memoir," quite short with big type and wide margins. In it, Mariah Carey...

Sales Bust: Donald Trump Jr’s Book, “Liberal Privilege” Drop to Number 535 on Amazon, No One Seems to Want to It

Nothing has "triggered" sales for Donald Trump Jr's latest writing sample. The feral son who seeks approval on a daily basis published a book called...

Barack Obama’s Memoir Coming Two Weeks After Election: 768 Page “A Promised Land” Will Have Second Volume Later

Barack Obama is finally publishing his memoir and it's only part one! "A Promised Land" is coming November 17th, two weeks after the election. A...

RIP Erudite, Curmudgeonly Stanley Crouch, 74, A Friend, a Hero, A Culture Critic and Jazz Man

There are a lot of good obits today for Stanley Crouch. I liked the ones on NPR and the NY Times, and Leonard Greene's...

Books: Mary Trump’s Family Tell All Sells 1.1 Million Copies, Donald Trump Jr’s Self Published Rant Isn’t Being Counted by BookScan

There are now more books about Donald Trump by friends, enemies, and journalists on all sides of the story that they could fill a...

Former Gossip Columnist Regrets: That Time He Didn’t Report How Tom Cruise Fell Down the Stairs at Prada in SoHo

Summer reading: finally catching up with Ben Widdicombe's "Gatecrasher," named for his long ago column in the NY Daily News. It's full of great...

Bestselling “Passages” Writer Gail Sheehy Tragic Irony: She Wrote About Isolating and Beating COVID A Week Before She Died

There's some confusion about how and why bestselling writer of "Passages," Gail Sheehy, 83, died day before yesterday, August 24th. Her daughter, Maura, said in...