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Here Are White Supremacists' Favorite Amazon Kindle E-Books

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets the lowest dregs of Amazon. Thanks to the dawn of e-readers and the death of the gatekeepers of traditional publishing, disenfranchised voices at last have the chanc ... More >>

Q&A: Jessica Francis Kane Talks This Close and How Kindles Aren't Dumb

"Authors are just notoriously difficult," says the publicity director in Jessica Francis Kane's story "How to Become a Publicist" from her 2002 collection Bending Heaven. While this might be true of some writers, we can't imagine anyone saying it of Kane, who was warm, cheerful, and funny when The V ... More >>

Reading Around: Absurd Science Fiction in Translation and the Ongoing Triumph of Bach

Books by Andri Snær Magnason, Wendy Guerra, Rosa Montera, and Paul Elie

The Original RedNek Wine Glass: for Country Bumpkins with Class

​At least some people know how to profit off of tackiness. Carson Home Accents, a Pennsylvania novelty company, started making The Original RedNek Wine Glass -- which consists of nothing more than a Bell Mason jar glued to a Libby candlestick holder, in March, and has already made $5 million ... More >>

Holiday Guide: Today's Hot Gadgets Will Be Tomorrow's Landfill

The fire next time

100 & Single: What Billboard's Rule Changes Mean For The Britney, Michael And Gaga Albums You Bought

When you go see a movie at a Saturday half-price matinee, should it count toward that weekend's box office? You paid less than the guy who saw the movie Friday night. Does that mean your viewing shouldn't count? What about if you see an old movie at a revival house: Should that count toward the box ... More >>

Behold, the Martin "Loofah" King Exfoliating Glove!

"I have a clean...and so can you, for just $6.92!"​Have you been searching high and low for that "fantastic novelty house warming gift," as Amazon.com puts it? Have you been dreaming of a way to make it so that your "skin appears always fresh," while scrubbing your ass with the face of the man ... More >>

Jerry Sandusky's Book, Touched, Is Still on Amazon

​Unless you've been living under a rock without WiFi for the past 48 hours, even the sports unconscious will have heard the names "Joe Paterno" and "Jerry Sandusky." Last night's firing of Penn State head coach Paterno and school president Graham Spanier by the board of trustees over how the s ... More >>

Amazon Probably Going To Announce Tablet This Week

​Amazon is going to have a press conference in the city Wednesday, which probably means it's going to show the world a new tablet, the New York Times reports today. But the question that looms is: will everyone be dying to have an Amazon tablet when there's already the iPad?

Save the St. Marks Bookshop Has 27,000 Signatures...But Can a Petition Save St. Marks Bookshop?

​The St. Marks Bookshop, a lovely place very near Voice headquarters, surrounded by several other lovely places (and some less lovely) that have changed numerous times since we were college students staying at an NYU dorm for the summer, has managed to hang on -- since 1977, albeit in a few di ... More >>

Jeff Bezos' Spaceship Loses Control, is Destroyed

via Blue Origin​A spacecraft funded by Amazon head Jeff Bezos lost control during a test flight and was destroyed, the Wall Street Journal reports. Blue Origin, a commercial space company Bezos funds, is believed to have launched and lost the unmanned craft on August 24th. In a letter written ... More >>

Rave Review of My Book On Gay List Daily

Wolfgang Wesener​Thank you, Steven Lindsey. And an extra heap of gratitude for helping me realize that Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back can be way better alluded to as FOTLKITB. Here's the review: Musto Gracias The world has many things to fear. Palins, bioterrorism, day-long prayer/hat ... More >>

Amazon Releases Cloud Drive, Will it Kill You?

via kevindooley​Yesterday, Amazon.com launched Cloud Drive, their digital storage service. Many in the tech world believe this is the first shot in the war of "cloud computing," a term for networked, online storage space. To continue the absurd war metaphor, the Wall Street Journal said Amazon ... More >>

Serial Killer Dorothea Puente Is Dead, But Her Cookbook Lives On

Amazon.comFirst class murder, first class recipes​Convicted serial killer Dorothea Puente died in Central California Women's Facility prison on Sunday. But her legacy will live on past her death. And not just the legacy of her murders, but her culinary one. Yes, Cooking with a Serial Killer ... More >>

Free Amazon Kindles For Everyone!

via ereaderchat.com​The Amazon Kindle is kind of amazing. At the risk of sounding cheesy, you can get everything on there! Books, magazines, blogs, etc; all there on your shiny white screen! CNN explained yesterday why Amazon should just start giving the things away for free and hints that Jef ... More >>

The Reason Why Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Is $3.99 on Amazon Right Now

Behold, the Amazon-pixelated artwork of a man who will stop at nothing to be #1.​Many rap fans probably didn't notice a couple weeks ago when Taylor Swift's Speak Now debuted, selling over a million copies in its first week--the fastest sprint to that number since Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III, i ... More >>

Lloyd Banks Also Has A New Album Out This Week, Everybody

​As previously noted with regards to Nicki Minaj, this is an absolutely terrible week to put out a record if you are anyone other than Kanye West, who with his 10.0 reviews and $3.99 Amazon sales will be hogging every last bit of the spotlight in his (failed, ultimately, probably?) quest to ou ... More >>

President Obama Finally Immortalized as a Chia Pet

​What's the ultimate form of terrible, tawdry, pop culture tribute? If you're President Obama, until today, you probably thought it was a vibrator made in your physical likeness. But oh, how wrong you were.

Asthmatic Kitty Walks Us Through the Release of Sufjan Stevens's Age of Adz

​About three weeks ago, Asthmatic Kitty, the small independent label that is home to Sufjan Stevens and an assortment of smaller acts, sent out a kind of tortured email. It was directed, in theory, at prospective buyers of Sufjan's then-upcoming, now just-released Age of Adz, and laid out all ... More >>

Sufjan Stevens and Asthmatic Kitty Take on Amazon, Bootleggers, And You, Maybe

​Perhaps you've heard that Brooklyn troubadour Sufjan Stevens has a new album. It comes out October 12th, and has a poetically appropriate name, The Age of Adz, though for some reason he wants to you pronounce that last word as "odds." You can preorder it now, on CD, LP, or MP3, and get a digi ... More >>

Invasion of the Cute Toys: Squinkies, Sing-a-ma-jigs, Other Things You Shouldn't Feed After Midnight

​Every year, toy companies come out with some ridiculous new toy that supposedly ratchets up the "cute" factor about ten points past where it has any good reason to be. This year is, frighteningly, no different from any other.

READING RAINBOW

Airan Kang keeps books fresh

Regent Media Is Holding My New Book Hostage

I know I wrote one, but I can't find it anywhere

There Is a Twilight Cookbook, and It's Awful

Amazon.com​Today in Adventures in Shameless and Unauthorized Cross-Promotion: Somebody has written a Twilight cookbook, called, yes, Love at First Bite. While none of us at Fork in the Road can claim to be fans of the series or begin to understand its effects on fully-grown women, the book is ... More >>

Which Magazine Has the Most Appetizing Cover?

​ The American Society of Magazine Editors is holding a contest for the Most Delicious Cover of 2008-2009. It's pretty exciting that the little boy decimating a raw fish made the cut--and check out the look on the fish's face! Clearly, that's the one to beat. Which one makes you get a little d ... More >>

News Roundup: Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam, Islands, They Might Be Giants

Islands--Islands have released the bubbly new track "No You Don't," from their upcoming third album Vapours, the one frontman Nick Thorburn once famously left on the C Train. The song features him switching between a falsetto and more conversational style, with lyrics like "Don't buy dope from the m ... More >>

"Why Don't They Just Burn The Books?": AmazonFail Ramps Up

The AmazonFail drama continues, with the beleaguered company now claiming that "an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error" was what lead tens of thousands of books to disappear in searches and, by all accounts worse, lose their sales rankings. Books in particular that trended towards gay and l ... More >>

Clip Job: Luring a Sucker -- er, Scholar, to the Village

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJanuary 10, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 12The Greenwich Village ScholarshipBy John WilcockLetters from girls as far away as Eugene, Oregon, and Valparaiso, Indiana, brought applications for the Greenwich Village Scholarship -- a weekend in the Village a ... More >>

Hipster Runoff Explained (Maybe)

A (possibly) illuminating chat with Carles, the Internet's latest mystery man

Keller vs. Achatz

We Knew This Web Thing Was Just a Fad

Why MySpace Music Won't Succeed

Rupert Murdoch's pride and joy is trying to go legit; mayhem may ensue, and success may not

Take My Book—Please!

It's a Good One: Jimmy Dodge's Peach Pie

Sexy Gift Guide: Part 2

Pinup porn, stainless-steel butt plugs, and sheriff-starred strap-ons

Good Riddance, Tower Records

Five Ways of Looking at a T-Shirt

The DIY tee: not dead yet

Book Smart

Could cyberspace be the novel's best friend? Litblogs take off—and grow up.

Music

God Save This Book

I write this not to praise Tony Hendra, but to defend a provably innocent victim

A well-rounded singer discovers that the earth is, as well

Fourth Annual Real-Life Consumer Guide

A Trip Down The Scary AMAZON.COM

It’s Sell or High Water

Whee-commerce! Can Indie Booksellers Ride the Wave?

Hiring Squad

The Critical Masses

The Conversation Amazon.com Won't Let You Hear

Machine Age

Signal & Noise

Trial by Fire