British authors confess to never reading certain classic works of literature like Ulysses, Wuthering Heights and A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. Adorable British authors: They’re just like us! [Telegraph] A new wax statue of Amy Winehouse has been...

As a rule, we prefer to dis books that we’ve never opened, but it’s summer and as a “publication” we’re supposed to suggest books for you to carry around your beach share so you can look smart while you’re...

This almost slipped by us: Oscar De La Hoya wrote a book about his life called American Son and it’s out today! From the book description: From Oscar De La Hoya, one of the most celebrated fighters in the...

Can anyone in America do anything anymore without penning a memoir about it? Certainly not America’s first pregnant man. No sireee. He’s just signed a memoir deal with St. Martin’s Press about his ordeal. Hey, it’s a memoir ordeal....

You can stop holding your breath, everybody! Mario Lopez’s new tome, Knockout Fitness, is finally out. And will help you get that beautiful, chiseled ass you never knew you always wanted. You can crack walnuts with these asscheeks, baby....

There’s a new self-published book out by one Dr. Michael Salzhauer, a plastic surgeon in Bal Harbour, Florida (surprise!), that explains to kids why mommy is shooting her face up with botulism and the like. “My Beautiful Mommy” is...

Had enough of Junot Diaz being rammed down your throats? Too bad! He’s been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Excited? Too bad! We [Ed. note: Alex] would helpfully like to...

Carmen Juri, a Cuban-American writer, has a bone to pick with the whole concept of affirmative action and vents her frustrations through a review of Joey Gonzalez, Great American. The book, by Puerto Rican-American author Tony Robles, talks of...

“Ugly Betty” star America Ferrera is going to lend her voice to a new animated film from DreamWorks. How To Train Your Dragon is based on the British children’s novel of the same name. Because nothing says “easy money”...

Junot Diaz won a National Book Critics Award! We couldn’t be prouder if we’d written it ourselves. In fact, we’d be ashamed if we’d written it ourselves, but that’s our issue. The kids over at Gawker who literally hate...

The Los Angeles Times Book Prize nominees were announced yesterday in Manhattan—where the culture is. (Wink!) Amongst the other finalists in the fiction category was our very favorite book The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao. The winner will...

Cuban writer Antonio Orlando Rodriguez is the latest recipient of Spain’s Alfaguara Award for literature for his novel Chiquita: The award, which includes a prize of $175,000, is one of the most prestigious in the Spanish language. A total...

Earlier this year, Fidel Castro published for the first time in the United States an autobiography interview entitled, Fidel Castro: My Life co-authored by interviewer Ignacio Ramonet. After finally making it through the many pornographic comic books that surround...

Remember Cuban-American writer Oscar Hijuelos, author of 1989’s Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love? No? Yes? Who cares? Well, he’s still alive and writing books. Two, in fact: According to sources at several publishing houses who saw proposals for...

On the eve of the U.S. release of his kind-of-sort-of-anticipated-by-us autobiography, Fidel Castro: My Life, El Comandante has pulled off the ultimate PR coup by announcing that he may die. The world has lived on speculative crumbs [Ed. Note:...

It’s been quite a while since we last heard from Fidel Castro, but he’s making up for lost time by sending us a new autobiography just in time for Superbowl Sunday. And it’s full of useful tips like this:...

by Cindy Casares A few months ago, unanimously adored writer Junot Diaz released his first book in 11 years and his first novel ever, entitled The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, to critical acclaim and, let’s face it, ball...

Author Caridad Piñeiro thinks Harlequin romance novels are oh my God so stupid and like super sexy. We mean. Sexist: Piñeiro acknowledged that many popular romance novels do present weak women characters and happily-ever-after Cinderella stories. The best-selling “Harlequin...

Our BFF, reggaetonera Ivy Queen, is showing us her softer side with a new album and book. It ain’t always all about the acrylics and being dogged by sweaty gangsters on the dance floor, you guys: “The audience will...

The conservative government of Iran has banned Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s latest novel Memories of My Melancholy Whores after realizing publishers hid its racy content by renaming it with the clever new title of Memories of My Melancholy Sweethearts. Heck,...

Speaking of race mixing, Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America, a new book by Los Angeles Times opinion columnist Gregory Rodriguez is clueing chicano activists like Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán...

A celluloid version of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera opens in theaters November 16! Excited? No? Ok. But, come on, its directed by Mike Newell, who did “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and “Harry Potter...

You can thank Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, that epic tale of old men and hottie sidekicks chasing murderous albino monks around Italy, and cheestastic self-help cheese fest / marketing ploy The Secret for a new surge in...

Conrado Espinoza’s 1926 novel El Sol de Texas has just been translated to English as Under The Texas Sun and The Texas Observer reporter Michele Wucker saves us time reading it by describing it thusly: A Tex-Mex precursor to...

Colombian author and melancholy whore rememberer Gabriel Garcia Marquez is set to be honored next month at the XXII Festival de Cine Latinoamericano in Trieste, Italy. The homage will feature more than 40 films written and inspired by Garcia...

Author Rosie Molinary wants to remind you that Latinas can be just as shallow and materialistic as any other obnoxious teen girl. In her recent book, Hijas Americanas: Beauty, Body Image and Growing Up Latina, the South Carolina native...

Cubans: If you think you have it rough being exiled at the hands of a fascist dictator, think again. At least he isn’t your dad. That’s the plight of Alina Fernández Revuelta, daughter of Fidel Castro and Cuban exile...

Mexican-American dude and blossoming auteur, Miguel A. Diaz, is writing a book called Unbecoming American. Provocative! Apparently, Diaz never felt so at home as he did in China – that mystical land of people who are fetishized even more...

New Yorinican author Julia Alvarez recently sat down with The Nation to discuss Once Upon a Quinceañera, her new book on the commercialization of coming out parties (Also? Awesome porn title.) and how quinceañeras have gone from society balls...

We’re in a bit of shock after reading a very sincere and rave review of something on Gawker. What was it for, you ask? Why, none other than wundervato Junot Diaz and his new tome, The Brief Wondrous Life...

Peruvian soft-core porn photographer Mario Testino held a party at the Bowery Hotel in NYC on September 13th to celebrate the release of his photography book (published on September 1st) called Lima Peru. The party had the usual hot...

The man behind “Y Tú Mamá También” and who directed “Children of Men” collaborated with author Naomi Klein to create a trailer for her book The Shock Doctrine, which draws a disturbing comparison between the way CIA agents “soften...

After an incredibly long run, one of New York City’s most beloved Spanish-language bookstores is closing its doors. Librería Lectorum, owned by book publisher Scholastic, is closing down after 47 years and moving to the more profitable(?) world of...

A large-format photographic book about big titties will soon hit Chile’s bookstores. The book includes photographs of celebrities and actresses from the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s, such as Virginia Bell, Lisa Deleeuw, and Candy Barr. It will also include...

Over a month ago we mentioned the buzz surrounding the upcoming release of Dominican novelist Junot “Drown” Díaz’s sophomore effort—a science fiction-tinged portrayal of the island’s diaspora in the U.S. called Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Reserving judgment...

Eleven years ago, Junot Díaz wrote a collection of short stories called Drown that, to quote Wikipedia, (something we try to do everyday), “became an overnight literary sensation.” To be honest, we read the book back then and were...

Finally, a role model for young Mexican girls that doesn’t ask them to sell out so damn hard… but make tortillas instead? We came across a literary review of children’s book “The First Tortilla: A Bilingual Story” by the...