Today in books and publishing: Herman Melville has his day online; a Colombian prostitute hired by the Secret Service has a book deal; Amazon coming after our children; the Asian Literary Prize loses its Man.
Fox News has a long, entertaining investigation alleging that members of the Secret Service have "partied like rock stars" while on detail with President Obama on Martha's Vineyard, suggesting that the bad behavior first revealed in the Colombia prostitution scandal wasn't unprecedented.
Now that the Secret Service agents fired for that whole Colombian prostitution scandal are fighting their terminations, we're learning a lot more about how and where they party.
Wednesday's cover of the New York Daily News is kind of a big one, a first-person confession from a woman who claims to have dated and slept with Secret Service Agent Arthur Huntington well before his scandalous encounter with that Colombian prostitute. Oh, and she is not his wife.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson on the Secret Service.
Arthur Huntington is the Secret Service agent who allegedly started the dispute over pay with the escort in Colombia, and the scandal has cost him his job and forced his family to move.
Hours after Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told lawmakers that the Secret Service's recent Colombian prostitution scandal was an isolated incident, there are now reports that the agency is investigating a similar incident that happened last year in El Salvador.
Cartoonist Steve Benson on reprimanding Ted Nugent.
President Obama is slated to appear on the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and during the pre-taped interview, he once again addressed the Secret Service prostitution scandal, saying, a "couple of knuckleheads shouldn't detract from" the rest of the agency.
Marco Rubio gave a "no comment" when asked if he'd be Romney's VP, while Governor Mitch Daniels said he would "demand reconsideration" if Romney asked him; David Axelrod doesn't believe in Mitt Romney's economic policies.
When a prostitue woke up an entire hotel claiming a Secret Service agent tried to rip her off, the responsibility to clean up the mess fell to Paula Reid, the head of the Secret Service's Miami Bureau.
Three more Secret Service agents resigned on Friday in the wake of the Colombian prostitue party scandal, which brings the total number of agents lost to six.
The big tabloids have uncovered the name and photos of the woman at the center of Secret Service sex scandal and more unflattering details have emerged about the agents who have already been dismissed.
Cartoonist Tom Toles finds a common thread between two seemingly disparate organizations.
Things are looking worse for members of the Secret Service detail caught bringing prostitutes to their Colombian hotel. There's news that three employees "will separate from the agency."
The New York Times scored an interview with one of the prostitutes who slept with several U.S. Secret Service agents in Colombia, setting off a scandal here in the U.S., and The Times leads its story with a pretty oddly-selected quote from the Colombian woman.
The president is on the verge of losing his temper; all it took was a wasted Secret Service detail and 11 Colombian prostitutes.
As a Secret Service sex scandal -- alcohol! Colombian prostitutes! -- shocks and titillates a nation, at least one lawmaker is wondering just how "isolated" an incident this really is.
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