Yes, I understand that ghostwriting is a necessary thing when it comes to barely literate celebrities, and every one pretty much overlooks it when someone like Victoria Beckham, who has never read a book in all her life, has apparently “written” her very own autobiography.
Sometimes, however, the illusion just can’t be maintained. Seriously, does [...]

Nothing infuriates a bookworm quite like watching their most beloved novels receive the adaptation treatment, only to be stripped of their thematic significance and essential spirit. So, it is with much contempt that the Pajiba staff discusses The Most Heinous Book-to-Screen Bastardizations of a Novel.

Geekboys everywhere are wetting their briefs today while anticipating their viewing of the Watchmen flick, but, naturally, the whole affair will blow over soon in a marketing blitz for the next comic book adaptation to the big screen. Looking ahead a few years, I fear for the trashing of my favourite series, 100 Bullets (see [...]

These Filigranes adverts, which read “Make your own movie: read a book,” are based upon Franz Kafka’s nightmarish scenario in The Metamorphosis and substantially embellished by the Air Agency in Brussels, Belgium. While the idea of a cockroach invading the silent film, anime, and Bollywood genres aren’t terribly shocking, even Kafka would have shuddered to [...]

The editors at Literary Review have awarded this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction prizes, and this year top honors went to Rachel Johnson for an especially lurid passage in her novel Shire Hell. The Review’s deputy editor Tom Fleming explained that Johnson’s inventive use of animals—specifically cats, moths, and slugs—earned her this special [...]

It’s official — we are SO white trash — at least, according to Michelle Lamar, the author of a new book, The White Trash Mom Handbook: Embrace Your Inner Trailerpark, Forget Perfection, Resist Assimilation into the PTA, Stay Sane, and Keep Your Sense of Humor. That is one hell of a subtitle.
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We once detailed Pete Doherty’s thoughts on the relationship between Oasis and Umberto Eco, but now things have taken a slightly creepier quasi-philosophical turn. A current exhibition at Art de Caf includes a series of pastels that depict a dead Doherty. As one can see, one of the works shows Doherty wearing an adorable little [...]

That guy who said, “There are no second acts in American lives,” obviously knew nothing about American literature.* James Frey perpetrated the biggest literary hoax of recent years with his memoir A Million Little Pieces, glamourizing his fictitious past of sex, drugs, and crime. (Evidently Akon was one of his biggest fans.) [...]