Friday, December 19, 2025

Books

Pop Star Lana del Rey Reveals $350,000 Donation to Native American Charity Derived from Huge Book Advance

Lana del Rey is always full of surprises. The whispery singer-songwriter of smart hits revealed on Instagram today that she has donated $350,000 to a...

NYC Strand Bookstore SOS from Millionaire Owner Not Getting Sympathy After She Bought a Lot of Amazon Stock

Nancy Bass Wyden, owner of the Strand Bookstore in the East Village, sent out an SOS this afternoon. The Strand like all businesses, is...

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 of Mariah Carey." They say the book is a...

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...