Cheney’s Satanic Verses

Staff / Truthdig Jun 24, 2009 Dick Cheney, former vice president, defense secretary and White House chief of staff, has signed a reported $2 million deal with Simon & Schuster to publish his memoirs as a public official in four administrations. Bets are it'll be a thriller marked with torture, stolen elections, war and, hopefully, no sex. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

It’s ‘Laura’ — ‘Mrs. Bush’ if You’re Nasty

Staff / Truthdig Jan 6, 2009 Americans have always preferred Laura Bush to her husband, and now Scribner, an imprint of a division of a subsidiary of Sumner Redstone's National Amusements, is hoping to capitalize on that appeal with an "intimate" new memoir set for 2010 release. There's no telling how much the better Bush is getting paid, but "millions" is a safe bet. Update after the jump. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Palin Poised to Make Millions on Publishing Deal

Staff / Truthdig Nov 18, 2008 Huh! So Sarah Palin's White House bid didn't pan out, but the story of her two-month sprint to Election Day with John McCain will likely translate into big bucks from an eager publishing house. But what should Palin's tome be called? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama’s Book Sales Riding the Tsunami

Staff / Truthdig Nov 11, 2008 Nothing like winning a presidential election to send your book sales through the roof, as Barack Obama and his presumably gleeful publishers are discovering. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

AP Writer Razzed, Praised for Obama Speech Analysis

Staff / Truthdig Aug 30, 2008 Was he tone-deaf or spot-on? Or, worse, did AP writer Charles Babington prepare his reaction to Barack Obama's nomination acceptance speech not by listening to the address but by reading the transcript before Obama actually delivered it? And just who is this Charles Babington anyway? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Ex-Publisher Accuses News Corp. of Protecting Giuliani

Staff / Truthdig Nov 14, 2007 Judith Regan, the HarperCollins publisher who was fired after her O.J. Simpson book project fell apart, has accused an unnamed executive from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. of telling her to lie to federal investigators in order to protect Rudy Giuliani. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Goodbye to All That

Steve Wasserman / Truthdig Sep 8, 2007 Although coverage of books in major newspapers may seem to have taken a precipitous downturn in recent months, this decline has been in the works for a while, says longtime writer, literary editor and book aficionado Steve Wasserman, who opines in this CJR article about the high costs of this lamentable cultural sea change. Dig deeper ( 37 Min. Read )

Rumsfeld Cashing In With Iraq Memoir?

Staff / Truthdig Jun 27, 2007 What's a former secretary of defense to do now that he's out of a job? Well, the answer for Donald Rumsfeld is apparently to write a (controlled) memoir arguing in defense of his military maneuvers in Iraq -- for a sweet chunk of change. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Turks Acquitted for Publishing Chomsky

Staff / Truthdig Dec 21, 2006 A Turkish publisher, two editors and a translator have all been acquitted of insulting Turkishness. The four were charged for translating and publishing "Manufacturing Consent," by Noam Chomsky (above), which criticizes Turkey's treatment of Kurds. Though the EU has pressured Turkey to reform its laws regarding expression, it remains a crime there to insult the state. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Frey, Publisher Settle ‘Unprecedented’ Lawsuit

Staff / Truthdig Sep 8, 2006 Readers who felt burned by the fabrications in James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces" can claim refunds, an agreement called unprecedented by a leading publishing attorney. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Storied Magazine Makes Historic Sales Pitch

Staff / Truthdig Aug 28, 2006 The New Yorker is selling its complete archive, "every article, poem, short story, and cartoon (and every advertisement) that has appeared in the magazine since 1925," on an external hard drive for $300. It's a novel move for a media company, many of which have been wary of releasing digital versions of content to the public, for fear of piracy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Most Polls Show Wide Support for Iraq Troop Withdrawal

Staff / Truthdig Jun 22, 2006 Next time you hear a conservative bloviating about how most of the country is united behind "staying the course" in Iraq, you can respond with the truth: Almost every major poll shows strong support for a troop pullout in Iraq, and most Americans declared long ago that the Iraq war was a mistake. Dig deeper