Showing posts with label fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fiction. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

No Pulitzer for You, Fiction World


The Pulitzer Prize Board of Guys Who Matter have announced that they will not be giving out a prize this year for fiction.  This is the first time since 1977 that the prize has not been given out.  Publishers and others from around the world of wanting to make money from the literary equivalent of Oprah's book club have gotten all their panties in a twist at the assertion that no good books have been released this year.

You know who's probably pissed about this the most: the cast of the Jersey Shore.  From Snooki's A Shore Thing to The Rules According to JWOWW, these people have been waiting up for days for the news.  But, dude, you say, those are not fiction.  The very fact that we are supposed to believe that these people sat down to write a book is all the fiction the Pulitzer Board should need.

Quick, somebody tell me what last years book was without looking it up.  You probably ordered it, looked at it, held it in your hand, maybe made a display.  Hell, some of you probably even read it.  Off the top of your head, right now, can you name it? 

Pulitzer Fiction Snub Has Book Publishers Fuming - New York Times (blog)

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Jose Canseco To Pen Third Masterpiece

Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
The Tolstoy of our times.
Jose Canseco claims his third book will stay away from topics such as steroids and focus more on his life, the NY Daily news reports.  I can only assume this third novel will tell of his tenuous history at the premier magic school Boggswarts, and how he defeated the Great and Mighty to become the greatest Bats-man of them all. 

Seriously, I know this guy has lots of stories about baseball on the road (most of them pretty good, I bet), but after two books about getting so big your head and testicles are roughly the same size you should just keep up the trend.  Go into fiction, writing a wondrous story about a little boy who finds fame and fortune at the end of a needle.  Call it "Field of Misinformed Yet Successful Dreams."