America's Obsession With Pippa Middleton
America has a long tradition of being obsessed with royals, mostly because we don't have any of our own.
Today in books and publishing: Alexandria, Va. is America's most well-read city, at least according to Amazon, Pippa Middleton's having trouble finishing her book, and Gabriel García Márquez is alive, despite what Twitter says.
America has a long tradition of being obsessed with royals, mostly because we don't have any of our own.
Another anonymous masseur comes out of the woodwork with a story to tell about John Travolta, Sofia Vergara is single, and Pippa Middleton may soon be a New Yorker.
Today in books: Jonathan Safran Foer has a new book coming out next year, James Bond's license to kill now comes from Jeff Bezos, and a first edition of The Importance of Being Earnest can be yours for somewhere in the neighborhood of $190,000.
Well technically speaking, she still "could" (like you or I "could") go to jail, but it won't be because of the "gun" her driver was brandishing.
Pippa Middleton spent the night before her semiautomatic unpleasantness with dwarves, strippers, and fire-eaters, Julian Schnabel and Rula Jebreal call it quits again, and another Kennedy is born.
Today: Royals are acting criminally, Tiki Barber hits a marital snag, and Nicki storms off the internet.
Pippa Middleton completed a 56-mile marathon ski race in Sweden and got a kiss for her trouble, Prince Harry is having a terrific time in the Bahamas, and Adele thinks her new place is haunted.
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Today in books: Pippa Middleton will receive £400,000 for her party-planning book, Amazon's Kindle sales numbers remain infuriatingly vague, and The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik offers a theory on the appeal of fantasy novels.
Today in publishing: Barnes & Noble has a "special announcement," Pippa Middleton's taking meetings about writing a book, and Jack Kerouac had 30 sometimes confusing rules for writing spontaneous prose.
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